If they would just get their act together, this wouldn’t be happening to them. The problem now is they are trying as hard as they can to make sure this ships for the holiday season, so instead of a releasing this when it’s ready, they are pegging it to a date. Never a good idea.

As a long time PC user, Vista is the straw to my camels back, I’m outta here.

Vista’s gotta suck. They removed all features that could have made it worth anything, in order to be able to ship it before 2010+.

I’m all Win2K.

Thankfully, I don’t feel the need to upgrade to Vista anytime soon, if at all. And should I do, then it’ll be a year or two down the line. And when I say “should”, I mean that I intend to get another Mac to replace my G3 PowerBook and I’m also using Linux, so I just might not stick with Windows. Well at least it won’t be my primary machine.

I don’t feel sorry for ‘em. They have always made 3rd rate junk products and now Apple is cleaning their clock. Decades of junk software is finally catching up with them.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.

As much as I’d like to see MS fail, I don’t really think Vista will be a failure. Sadly, majority of people don’t know OSX and will think Vista is a fruit of MS innovation and will welcome it with as a second coming of Jesus. It’s pure economincs of scale - MS controls vast majority of the market and most of these people, maybe rightfully so, don’t give a rats ass about Apple. So, let’s get over it and accept it by buying Leopard soon :)

Vista requires so much resources, like 700 MB of ram just to run. I remember when hard drives barely cracked 100 mb, never mind approaching a gig of memory space.

Plus, you really need a dual-core (64-bit) processor to use this O/S efficiently. Single-core x86 processors will have a tough time with this new O/S, unless you have lots of ram.

Stoneman

Man, is there no sympathy for Microsoft? Doesn’t anyone hope they will succeed one day?