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If they didn't do this a section would blame MS for another XP like situation.

• thatthatis 13y ago
  XP like situations come from releasing half-baked UIs after fully baked UIs. Vista had some really good ideas, executed poorly. Win8 has some good ideas, executed poorly. By all measures, Win9 should be a great OS. MS just has a nasty habbit of releasing experimental software as if it were ready for production.
  • davidgerard 13y ago
    Have you used Vista? It felt pretty much like 7 does now, to me. (YMMV etc.)
  • wmil 13y ago
    I think he's referring to the fact that there wasn't a major OS update for 5 years (XP: 2001, Vista: 2006). Every part of Vista was a significant change leading to a lot of application incompatibilities. App developers hadn't dealt with changes like that for years, so fixes were slower than they should have been. That was a major cause of Vista's poor reputation.
  • xradionut 13y ago
    "By all measures, Win9 should be a great OS. MS just has a nasty habbit of releasing experimental software as if it were ready for production." I think they have jumped the shark with 8.x as far as their desktop OS goes.