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Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent.

by GavinB 18y ago

Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent. If MS had just shipped without the nag screens and with a lightweight desktop theme, I think the reception would have been very different. That's not to say that it's the best OS, but it could have been a business success. The tiny effect of the UAC being enabled by default has, in my opinion, snowballed to destroy Microsoft's reputation and profits. A one bit difference in the OS will hurt their bottom line for years to come.

zmimon 18y ago
I think there's a bit more to it than that. For example they hurt themselves enormously by breaking the driver model. I have a bunch of useless devices sitting all around me right now for which there are no Vista drivers and never will be. For that reason alone I don't recommend Vista to any of my friends because I know they probably have printers, scanners, cameras, who-knows-what that is never going to work again if they install it.
iamelgringo 18y ago
snowballed to destroy Microsoft's reputation and profits. A one bit difference in the OS will hurt their bottom line for years to come. Have you looked at MSFT's profits recently? http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fh_fin.html http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fh_fin.html If that's what happens to the company in one of the worst economies in decades, and they have an OS that has been repeatedly panned.... Wow. I wonder what the company is going to do when the economy does well.
windsurfer 18y ago
>Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent. But decent compared to what? Windows 2000?
anamax 18y ago
> Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent. The background indexing was also a disaster. What an idea. Make my new computer useless for several days so that some searches that I'll never do will be faster.

by GavinB 18y ago

zmimon 18y ago

I think there's a bit more to it than that. For example they hurt themselves enormously by breaking the driver model. I have a bunch of useless devices sitting all around me right now for which there are no Vista drivers and never will be. For that reason alone I don't recommend Vista to any of my friends because I know they probably have printers, scanners, cameras, who-knows-what that is never going to work again if they install it.

iamelgringo 18y ago

snowballed to destroy Microsoft's reputation and profits. A one bit difference in the OS will hurt their bottom line for years to come. Have you looked at MSFT's profits recently? http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fh_fin.html http://www.microsoft.com/msft/reports/ar08/10k_fh_fin.html If that's what happens to the company in one of the worst economies in decades, and they have an OS that has been repeatedly panned.... Wow. I wonder what the company is going to do when the economy does well.

windsurfer 18y ago

>Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent. But decent compared to what? Windows 2000?

anamax 18y ago

> Once you change it to the old-style theme, remove the nag screens, and delete the junk that comes pre-installed on most comps, Vista is actually quite decent. The background indexing was also a disaster. What an idea. Make my new computer useless for several days so that some searches that I'll never do will be faster.