There are many, many examples why Vista failed. I work for a small company with 13 full time employees, and we have 2 32-bit Vista PCs standing around in the office (the most powerful PCs we have), unused, and the next laptop we buy will have Windows XP installed. Our reasons are:
1) Vista keeps dropping network connection, terminating all TCP connections. I think this is a known bug, but we don't care, we just stopped using the PCs.
2) Vista doesn't run the most important applications in our business with correct rendering. They're not shelf software, but even compatibility settings won't make it render correctly.
3) We spent several mandays trying to find out, why Vista is about 10-100 times slower (no network involved) running our applications than Windows XP, but gave up. I think it's about filesystem virtualization, but we stopped caring and went back to Windows XP.
The only other experience I know with Vista is a guy who bought a Vista laptop, and after having hardware driver problems for 2 months, the shop agreed to let him return the laptop and get a Windows XP laptop instead.
Everybody else in my environment is running Windows XP or Mac. Of these, only one guy complains: He's running Microsoft Office 2007, and runs the HQ of a union of companies, and none of the members are able to read Office 2007 files.
Life is too short to worry about operating systems or office file formats. Vista was Microsoft's last chance to make significant changes to the OS without getting hurt, and they blew it. |
