Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product

Shadow7789 writes "No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC World has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: 'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?... No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'"

I didn't find it disappointing

[AuMatar]

But my expectations were 0 to begin with. Can't disappoint from there.

never thought

[SolusSD]

i'd ever see a new OS that would make people *want* to stick with XP.

Glass half full

[edwardpickman]

The chant at Microsoft, "We're number one, we're number one!"

Re:I didn't find it disappointing

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, Microsoft actually met someone's expectations!

Great job, guys!

Re:I didn't find it disappointing

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft

We look back at our complaints over XP and are forced to reflect on our simple naïveté.

Nihilism means nothing to the dancing peasants.

Re:I didn't find it disappointing

[palegray.net]

I expected Vista to be the cause of countless stories on Slashdot. Apparently I'm in the wrong line of work, seeing as how I can see the future...

Re:7 years ago this very night...

[calebt3]

So what? It's the year of Linux on the Laptop!

Vista = Genius Security Move

[Anonymous Coward]

You know how Microsoft changed all their development practices with security dead in their sights? Well, maybe Microsoft saw Apple's security through obscurity model and just thought "if we could get our numbers down to Apple's share, then nobody would attack us." And Vista is the result - an OS so bad nobody wants to use it.

My personal experience? I have hardware that works flawlessly in XP. When I install Vista, its okay until I try to run update. Then I get constant blue screens. I don't want Vista enough to figure out why, so I switched back.

Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007?

[QuickFox]

You must be new here. The instant anyone bashes Vista it gains credibility on slashdot.

Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007?

[Anonymous Coward]

"You must be new here. The instant anyone bashes Vista it gains credibility on slashdot."

Hey, /. is doing a public service here. I want -- need -- a daily dose of MS bashing. If I don't get it, I have withdraw symptoms.

Re:What about the iPhone?

[Torvaun]

Wow. How does it sound after all that?

SKSKRSKRSKRKSKRSKRSKRSKCH "Joe, what the hell did you put in the blender now?!"

Re:It's called a consensus opinion.

[DAldredge]

I like Vista.

Re:As a developer...

[Falstius]

All they have to do is get rid of the worst parts and fix the CPU sucking features to have successful release.

You mean re-release XP? It would certainly save on development costs.

Re:What about the iPhone?

[bckrispi]

god help me, i'm typing this on my wii...

Stop that. You'll go blind!

Re:I didn't find it disappointing

[MillionthMonkey]

But my expectations were 0 to begin with. Can't disappoint from there.

I was hoping for an install CD completely full of ones myself. I got ripped off- half of them are missing.

Re:It's called a consensus opinion.

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been running Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate since RC 2, and it's been rock-solid and reliable. Sure, there is some brand-new hardware that doesn't have drivers yet, but that's how all new operating systems are. I recently purchased licences for all eight of the computers in my house and will be installing Vista Ultimate on all of them this month. It's mature and stable, and does everything I want it to do. I never have problems with my wireless networking anymore, and that was a real PITA under XP (which was also a great OS in its day, but Vista is the way of the future!). Every new operating system seems to run a little slower than its predecessor, but that's just a byproduct of all the new functionality the OS is providing me. I'll happily give up a CPU cycle here and there if that's what I have to do. Only pirates and people who have no respect for copyright and protection of intellectual property want to bash Vista. Sure, it doesn't beat XP in performance . . . now. Just wait a year, and you'll be eating your words. People here like XP, and they're right to. Vista will meet their needs, and in the coming years, really impress them. Just give it a shot, guys. It's really worth your while.

That is fantastic news

[Anonymous Coward]

to the 5 people who own a tablet pc

teh irony

[derelict_monkey]

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1267/vistanokx6.jpg [imageshack.us]

Re:It's called a consensus opinion.

[ozmanjusri]

Just give it a shot, guys. It's really worth your while.

Yes, that's right, guys. Give it a shot.

Just one little shot.

The first one's even free....

Re:No surprise here, but ...

[totally bogus dude]

I think he's retired. His successor is a drinking bird [wikipedia.org] that periodically presses the "Approve submission" button on whichever article is currently pending approval.

I did

[jd]

I had an expectation of 0, but the reality was closer to the square root of -1.

Re:As a developer...

[Wicko]

Makes you wonder what they were doing those 5 years..

http://www.nothingbutiron.com/images/SL%20Asleep%20at%20Computer.jpg [nothingbutiron.com]

Re:As a developer...

[jimicus]

Go forth, my brother, and touch more.

Be careful of the advice you give. You can get arrested for that.

Re:I didn't find it disappointing

[wish bot]

Dada: Windows Vista, WOOF WOOF!

Destructive Amoralism: Windows Vista, just kill yourself!

Etc, etc.

Re:disappointing, it is relative!

[PopeRatzo]

Well, in my basement, I run a 1982-vintage VAX-11/785.

You stud, you.

And I only have a detailed, working reproduction of a 15th century torture chamber, complete with drain in the middle of the floor.

Re:I did

[silent_artichoke]

Sorry, the iExpectation is from Apple.

Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007?

[indifferent children]

I want -- need -- a daily dose of MS bashing.

Just install Vista; it practically bashes itself.

Re:disappointing, it is relative!

[ThosLives]

Hey, let's go talk about MiB

I just discovered a new argument against the crazy change in terminology for no good reason:

"Here come the Men in Black!"

Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007?

[Poltras]

Just install Vista

Cancel or allow?

it practically bashes itself.

Cancel or allow?

Another bad article

[MistrBlank]

As much as I hate the OS, Vista is the most disappointing product of 2006. It wasn't released this year, it was released last year.

Re:Tablet PC

[Snocone]

In the sense of the word as it is actually used, agnostic means that God is unknowable, or more precisely, that one *believes* that God is unknowable.

No, the word agnostic is actually used with the two distinct meanings of personal ignorance and intrinsic unknowability in the same context. They are distinguished when necessary with a qualifier.

WEAK agnosticism: I have no fucking idea who fucked this shit up.
STRONG agnosticism: Nobody has any fucking idea who fucked this shit up.

There is a certain confusion with weak atheism which could (and frequently does) arise, but that is properly reserved for the category of theological noncognitivists,

WEAK atheism: What the fuck do you mean with this God shit?
STRONG atheism: Didn't take any God to fuck this shit up.

which is different again from weak theism.

WEAK theism: Somebody fucked this shit up.
STRONG theism: God fucked this shit up.

An interesting cross-categorical theological belief not easily represented above is

DEISM: God set this shit up and it fucked itself.

And of course, theological Slashdotism,

SOVIET RUSSIA: This shit fucks YOU up!