Vista named #1 biggest tech disappointment of 2007 - by PC World

Here is what PC World had to say :-

"First PC World gets all up on the soapbox that (until a certain date) the MacBook Pro is the fastest PC the mag had tested, but consider the next step taken: PC World has boldly declared Vista #1 with a bullet in in their Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007. Ok, sure, we get that it's "disappointments" and not "crappy products" -- the two imply very different things, and it's hard not to be somewhat disappointed by any product that took the better part of a decade to come out -- but if PC World harshing on Vista this bad doesn't smack at all of linkbait, well, we don't know what does. Oh, and here's that link. "

[ilkercruiser]

All Previous Windows versions used to be dissapointment ; Why? because of Compatibility. Windows XP was also a dissapointment , Until Systems become all compatible with XP. So XP become ineispensable product.
Vista'a fate seems like that also. After 2-3 years we start to say: what is XP ?

[TANOD]

this is the first time a WINDOWS rendtion --mega rendition has flopped like this

[Bladestar]

lol... flop in sells? what are you talking about? LOL... sure... Education is important you know.. it's always smart to backup your statements with facts before someone like me (always in the lookout) brings some facts into the equation...

Here is some data about the so "flopped OS"...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/new...

Marketshares...

Vista: 7.38%
Windows 2000: 3.32%
Windows XP: 79.32%
Mac OS:6.61%
Linux: 3.39%

Vista even after all the negative news about it... already have a larger market share than Mac OD and linux... interesting ehh? I wouldn't call that a flop...

Microsoft OS still represents 90% of the market share...

This is not a flopped.. instead is a slower adoption... since this is the first time a Microsoft OS is So not backward compatible with so many old hardware and lots of the new hardware drivers are not working correctly...

Funny... with a new Mac OS... you don't have the choice but to use it on the newest hardware and even worst... you have to use Mac OS on hardware that's certified and chosen by Apple... and here we have people using cheap hardware, old hardware, below the Memory required to run vista.. and they are complaining about Vista not working properly... Spend at least $1,500 building a nice PC (newegg.com) with at least 4GB memory and you will love vista... it's still cheaper than what a Mac would cost you.

[Nipplestiltskin]

It's become common practice that 95% of all commercial companies are slow adopters of ANY Operating System, no matter how 'great' it may seem or claim. A great majority of my clients (huge VAR national reseller) do NOT want to move to Vista (now), but the reasoning is current support of existing programs for business use. The product just isn't up to snuff yet, and neither has ANY previous OS available in the first 2 years. I will say that there ARE quite a few companies ordering MS Office 07 though, but even those numbers are slow to start this year. We are also the largest Apple reseller on the planet as well, and no, Vista does not and will not replace it, as publishers and graphics users will find that Macs just do those things that much better with far less errors and conflicts. Time will improve Vista, but it will not replace XP for stability in the workplace.

[WilliamRLBaker]

nice blade and bubble for you, every thing you said is a fact and you even backed it up something tanod cannot and has never done, vista works great when you use the Reccomended specs which i did with this laptop and while vista is different and has compat problems it still works great.

[Bolts]

7% for a MS mass market OS is utter failure. They need to do a much better job marketing it and the fact that many new PC owners chose XP over Vista isn't helping.

[Kakkoii]

Yes but, Windows XP is a computer icon. It has existed threw the largest boom in internet gaming and the use of computers.

There isn't any features I think.. Hey I'd like that to be in XP.

Cause XP has everything I need. And If I ever do need something. Someones probably already made a MOD for Windows XP that does it for me.

Windows XP will always be better then Vista. Until high end computers are very cheap and Vista's bugs are gone. And even then.. I still prefer XP's simplicity.

[Rockstar]

A well deserved award.

Hey, it looks like you're a number 1 to somebody.

[Account deleted]

i even heard they are considering making a trophy, distributing gold medals to all the (un)ingenious programmers that participated in the program
but now seriously if you have a certified system made by a good company you can have a great system but not for games!!!!

[DARKKNIGHT]

vista is not great as far as upgrades go, but it is ok.

Im not really impressed with it, i mean you cant really do anything productive with it or play games on it....but you can surf the web and maybe type a term paper on it. realistically, it just needs some service pack updates.

windows xp was much better after sp2. i think vista will be ok if it heads in the same direction, but as of right now i have a ultimate x64 copy which i simply cannot use.

sux for me, i could have used that money elsewhere....

[HarryEtTubMan]

Microsft SUCKS

[ilkercruiser]

Why Disagree?
When Windows XP was out. Same words were said by every PC user. Not compatible, slow and worse than Win98SE. Now everybody had forgotten Win98Se , everybody loves/uses WinXP mostly now. After 2-3 years same thing will happen to Vista. Everybody will forget XP and Vista become new standard.

[Dreamworker]

it will be replaced by 2010 with windows 7.0

[Chris_GTR1]

just like the ps4 eh..

[Bill Gates]

#2 was the ShietBOX360.....AAHAHHAHAHAAHA H

#3 Halo 3.....Even more HAHAHAHHAHAH's

BABOONS are like the walking DEAD.

[DarkSniper]

Add Windows Vista next to the XBOX 360 as tech disppointments. Dark Sniper is not surprised by this news.

$niper

[phoenixtilt]

Do you read or just spit out random words?

if anything maybe we will add vista next to your psTRIPLE

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Add the PS3 as gaming's biggest disppointment "ever", and I mean 3DO kind of "disppointment"

[Achievement Unlocked]

just stop lol. you just rehash a press release, or someone elses words rather than formulating your own opinions. you fail.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Mac has problems letting other people in and Linux is free so they have no excuse. All Windows OS start off slow and then end up on everyones PC, Vista is just more like Windows ME.

[The_Engineer]

this is the first OS that actually gets IT departments requests to REMOVE IT. I bought a brand new Dell laptop and had vista wiped off like the turd that it is. no future for this OS.

In contrast XP was widely anticipated and accepted right off the bat, this is VERY different.

[DarkSniper]

PLAYSTATION 3® will end up in everyone's home like all the Playstations before it.
XBOX 360 has problems getting their consoles to work and Wii isnt considerd "next gen" so they have no excuse. All Playstation systems start off slow and then end up in everyone's homes, PS3 is just more like Windows ME.

$niper

[Account deleted]

good headshot

[Ancient Enemy]

Record number of people are going back to Xp, because Vista is horrible and is a wanna be Mac os tiger clone.

[DARKKNIGHT]

noone can argue what u stated, as soon as sp3 is released even more people will revert back to xp.......and i will feel even worse about spending 300 on ultimatex64.

Its ironic that its named ULTIMATEx64, aka ultimate 64 bit os, NO?

below me, i agree about the billgates statement. i read on a time magazine that he and his wife do alot of charity work for 3rd world countries on top of donating a lot of money. that makes him a pretty cool guy....in a billionaire status.

[LJWooly]

Microsoft have really been taking th p1ss lately. That's why I traded my 360 in, why i now run Yellow Dog Linux on my PC+PS3, and why I now have a deep, profound hate, of Microsoft, a hate, that I feel, is more than justified.
I'm not gonna hurl abuse at Bill Gates, though (the real guy, not the twat who posted above me) because, from what I hear, he's an okay guy, he's just lost control of his company.
My 360 RRoD'ed THREE TIMES (two faulty replacements by Microsoft) and i have since sold my 360 on eBay. When I upgrade to Vista, my AOL software and my account (AOL is sh1tty in its own right, without Vista to deepen the wound) goes haywire. Not to mention dozens of other program compatability problems I experienced, like so many other people seem to be getting. Also, I find that, despite all this DirectX 10 crap, games actually run SLOWER on Vista than XP because Vista's such a memory whore. Then, I realise PC gaming is a rip off anyway, (8800GTX for the price of a PS3? No, thank you.) so what the hell is the point? Since XP and Vista have no more to offer me, I upgrade to Linux, and i have never been happier. Microsoft's irritating Customer Service lady (Shannon, her name was) didn't help ease the pain, either.

Until microsoft get their act together, they will no longer be seeing my money.

Fingers crossed they get the XBOX 720 right...

[Kyur4ThePain]

I just LOVE the comments regarding the PS3 in a Vista discussion.
Priceless.

There will be no more Windows OS machines in my family (except for the old ones still running). Mac-only going forward.
Two MacBooks added to the family recently and we're loving it. Thirty seconds to record a video message and have it posted on a website. Thirty.

@1.2
At least when you buy a Mac that has their latest OS on it, you know the hardware will be capable of running it.

[Bordel_1900]

I have Windows Vista Ultimate on my laptop, when I get the time I'll re-install it with Windows XP again. Vista i really not any good yet, maybe I'll wait for SP1 before I wipe it from my harddisk.

[Nipplestiltskin]

You may want to look into making sure your bios can support ripping out Vista, and going with XP. Most companies like HP and Lenovo are providing specific bios discs to do just that. It's not as easy as you think, especially with a new computer with a new bios.

[pilot1885]

Do you even know what a service pack is? Let me educate you. A service pack is a collection of updates issued for OEM retailers. It is not a cure all or a debugger or magic sprinkles. And please give a real reason for your problems with Vista other than resource problems. Did you buy a bargain machine with 1 Gb of RAM or a single core processor? And bugs? Please tell me of one bug. If you can, I'll take a photo of myself in a mumu and send it to you.

[power of Green]

At Nasim/Smee/Tanod... He always leaves his signature fuc you! in his anti MSFT posts.

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[LJWooly]

Most people who have pictures of the 360 as their avatar is a prick. Same with people with a master chief/halo 3 avatar (Not all the time, but most).

People with a picture of some sort of retard usually end up sounding like the guy in their avatar (like a retard). And people with any sort of pro/anti-PS3/360 picture act like children. (That includes the people with a picture of the RRoD.)

People with Wii avatars usually post hit-and-run comments like "360 sucks!!!" or "Mario pwns Master Chief!"

People with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune avatars tend to be a little more mature, (Deep, Meus Resistance, for example) and people with Killzone avatars always post statistics from VG Chartz. The info may be right, but it's an annoying habit.

Sorry, I just wanted to mention that. Feel free to prove me otherwise, I like arguments :D

[darthkojima]

how about the people using tekken avatars? :D

[Maddens Raiders]

ok, knock off the celebration. 8|

[DJ]

They said it was over 20 million copies after a few months, even though only 8 million PCs had been sold within the same time period. Microsoft had to admit that they meant "licenses sold to retail". Worse yet, most Vista licenses that WERE purchased ended up being cancelled or never used.

Supposedly there's only like 4 million active Vista licenses here in the states. Windows XP is the PC standard, and it looks like it's going to be that way until a better Microsoft OS is released. BTW, you HAVE to check out the similarities between OSX and Vista; it's frickin' hilarious. Even the games were copied. =P

[aaquib5]

I bought into the whole "Vista" marketing, and then downgraded a month later. It froze occassionally when I used Safari, and there was almost nothing compatible for it, so I downgraded. XP feels so much better, and even though I can't currently afford a Mac, I can't go back to Vista. Microsoft is struggling and need to get their act together on all fronts. Zune, XBOX, and Vista aren't doing as well as they should be considering the Microsoft brand name and what they've done in the past.

[Account deleted]

windows longhorn... they changed its name to vista anyway, but i actually kind of liked the beta name i would have bought it ,, shame on them........ :d
actually windows vista isn't horrible if you buy a computer adept to it made by a good company tested and certified, vista resembles to the mac os than it does for xp... anyway i liked the the logic of darksniper... as for games vista is a flop infested with big time issues just like microsoft console ;;; microsoft aren't made to do games they do software so get your asses out of the japenese terrotiry because when wii dominances fades away, the ps3 will take its place not the 360

[Nipplestiltskin]

Ah, not true. 'Longhorn' was the codeword for Windows Server 2008, and it was just changed to that weeks ago. I know- I sell it. Along with literally 1000 other MS products from Exchange Server 2007 to Forefront Security. Windows Vista ISNT bad, but one does need to buy Ultimate in order to get the best driver support out there currently. It may get better, but it's not good enough right now for a vast majority of consumers, and it's really expensive, but no, it doesnt suck- except when your expecting perfection from a Windows OS. Too many different computers to code for...

[Xemnas]

No joke

[jaja1434]

Enh it has worked good for me. Not great, but it is just an operating system. Not to sure what people are expecting when they buy one. But I didn't get any errors and all of my previous software works fine. The only thing that I truely hated was the "do you want to allow" this crap.

My god that thing annoyed the hell out of me until I figured out how to true it off, which isn't hard at all, just Vista does not tell you exactly how to do it. Kind of have to look it up yourself.

But in the end, it is not bad, not great. Just like XP was back in the day.

[Tyrael]

I see no point in upgrading.

[WilliamRLBaker]

WE can't say any thing about 360 because it kicks our systems ass every damn day, Sales, Attach ratios, game scores, So lets Attack the OS something that has NOTHING to do with the system...AHHHHHH damn microsoft for kicking our fav companies butt constantly.

Face it Vista will be on every computer, and No ps3 wont be in every home, ps3 so far has been a flop and nothing but a flop it hasn't met or exceeded any of the expectations that any of the sonyfanboys promised it would.

[Nipplestiltskin]

I suppose you work in the industry as an analyst. Right. It's the first year of the system, and crapping on the many intellectual properties is just short-sighted and wrong. You cant read into the future, and given how poorly Xbox 360 is doing this winter, PS3 is doing much better, but albeit not as good as the Wii. Funny you dont poop all over the Wii, being a weak-sauce hater and all.. Poor guy.

[LJWooly]

Why the hell are you trashing the PS3? You're a f(_)cking hippocrite. You're starting a fanboy war by complaining about fanboys.
Shut up.

[LinuxGuru]

Nipplestiltskin as the resident in-house genious / retard crusher / smasher / maker of da big refutes / common-sense speaker.

Good job, and bubble for you!

[WilliamRLBaker]

sorry double post..

[DJ]

about Posting in general.

[Kyur4ThePain]

It's sad, but for people like Willie Baker, there is only a world with the 360 and PS3.
EVERYthing revolves around those two.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised is a discussion about lawn care somehow got turned into a console debate.

[The_Engineer]

DJ just did a running drop kick on this turd....lmao

[SmokeyMcBear]

vista = millenium... just wait until the next rendition when they iron out all the bugs

[DJ]

alternates between each version of Windows. 2000 was good, ME was crap, XP is great, Vista is crap, etc. Hopefully they take a long hard look at Vista, delete the DRM, streamline it, and make it run a lot faster with fewer resources.

At most, an OS should only require 256 MB of RAM, not 2 GB.

[JokerSGS]

Is anyone surprised by how bad Vista is. And Blade Vista on a strong PC is still garbage. Only reason I almost bought Vista when I bought my 8800 GTS was because DX10 and that was only for Crysis. XP is garbage too but there is a lot of 3rd party apps that you can download to at least make the experience better. As an OS Windows is horrible, but if you're into PC gaming you really have no option, and it's a damn shame.

[IntelligentAj]

I don't like Vista but it runs fine on my system. I would certainly prefer it over any iteration of Mac. With the SP1 i'm sure they'll fix most of the issues(hopefully) and make Vista widely adoptable. I'm getting tired of all these Vista sucks articles. You people act like XP was perfect when it came out, knowing it damn well wasn't. Put it rest... Damn.

[andron]

I have disliked windows as long as I have used it.

So when I recently bought my first own pc (a laptop), I installed Linux and dropped windows for good.

Vista just seems like a mangled XP version to me, and the many "awards" it gets now are well deserved;)

[xplosneer]

My dad's laptop says "Compatibility Problem Alert" on everything. Yet most work fine(Civilization 4 for example). I thought is was a good update from XP. In fact it's almost just like XP, starting with nothing compatible and then building...slowly. I'll be picking up Vista myself with my new PC early 08.

[Bolts]

Live for Windows is one of those WTF were they thinking deal. It's closed nature lack two of PC gaming prime features, mods and dedicated servers support. There isn't a single a reason why any PC gamer would want to use this totally useless "service".

[pilot1885]

Do you know what Windows Live is? Probably not, as a hardcore gamer you undoubtedly have no social life to warrent using Live in the first place.

[ReBurn]

Vista is a disappointment. I think that XP SP2 is the best version of Windows yet.

[name]

I hate vista. Every single thing I do somehow needs troubleshooting because of this damn thing.