Comments on: Windows Vista: A Review Recap

By: The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction | Technologizer

The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction | Technologizer — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:43:47 +0000

[...] I’ve written before, there’s no such thing as an operating system upgrade that doesn’t cause headaches for [...]

By: AutoBlog » 5 O’Clock Roundup: Amazon’s all-time high, Microsoft’s ignorable low, the Windows 7 questions no one but David Pogue wants to be seen answering

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:26:40 +0000

[...] pundits who trash-talk Windows Vista, former PC World editor Harry McCracken looked up all of the major reviewers’ write-ups of Vista from its debut days. All but one liked it. None forecast the sprawling, deep disinterest with which [...]

By: Incredible Vehicle · Fascinating times ahead

Incredible Vehicle · Fascinating times ahead — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:40:16 +0000

[...] reviews. (Hang on a second! What kind of reviews did Vista get? As it turns out, most reviews were quite favorable, esp. relative to how poorly it [...]

By: Perché conviene passare a Windows 7 (e perché no) - Hitech e Scienza - Panorama.it

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:14:56 +0000

[...] Solo il tempo, infatti, potrà darci un quadro del valore reale di Windows 7. Tutto sommato, se andiamo a riguardare fra gli archivi, non erano molti quelli che all’esordio di Vista avevano pronosticato un simile [...]

By: &raquo Perché conviene passare a Windows 7 (e perché no) - Gregtecnologia

&raquo Perché conviene passare a Windows 7 (e perché no) - Gregtecnologia — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:36:17 +0000

By: Zumo Blog: Tecnologia. Opinião. Inteligência. » Windows: isso que deu fazer barulho no supermercado

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:45:39 +0000

[...] mais gente lembrou por aí, as expectativas em torno do Vista também eram grandes e, no fim das contas, foi um fiasco.Se acho [...]

By: Gary Marshall: Can you trust experts’ opinions on Windows 7? | Midjam.info

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:01:05 +0000

[...] thing is, if you go back in time and see what the same experts said about Vista – as Harry McCracken did the other day – you’ll find them saying pretty much the same thing. Best Windows ever, the pundits [...]

By: One Bit | Monday Note

One Bit | Monday Note — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:10:17 +0000

[...] Sages have already offered their obligatory contributions to each part of the libretto. And, things on the Web being immortal, wags have dug up equally authoritative 2 1/2 years-old claims from the same business and tech gurus when Vista was launched. Said wags invented a term, “claim chowder”, for such an amusing or embarrassing confrontation between past and present pronouncements. If you google the phrase, you won’t get much because the ever-obliging search engine thinks you mean New England’s “clam chowder”. Fortunately, Google Reader, the blog-reading engine, is more forthcoming and offers a bevy of examples such as this one, or this one. [...]

By: uruiamme

uruiamme — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:20:36 +0000

Vista boosted both interest in Linux (see above comment), sales of Macs (great ad campaign) and kept a lot of service technicians in business. A new OS from Microsoft is like a Stimulus Plan for the tech sector… including publishers, ad agencies, software, hardware… you name it. Been watching it since the 90s and it’s always a chore to figure it out until it’s too late.

Oh, and for Zato, come on. Ads are so… 1999. I have been blocking them with Squid and now with ADP (AdBlock Plus) since that time. But you made me look, so thanks for the laugh. My page has a mysterious blank section at the top. I figured this was the best for me and the world, since I decided not to click on ads since 97 anyway. See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/sitemaps.html for more on why I don’t look at ads even when they’re on my screen.

Back to the peanut gallery I go.

By: Grapemanca

Grapemanca — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:46:11 +0000

Having used 3 different machines with Vista, I can honestly say that I’ve had very few problems. Vista is smooth and fast, and has been much more stable than XP (esp. before XP’s SP2). In the past 2 years, I’ve only had 1 BSOD with Vista, and that was during my efforts to delete the wretched Office 2007 trial edition from my daughter’s HP laptop (which now runs great sans bloatware). Most of the Vista haters I know are Mac types who’ve never tried it, or are XP people who are outraged that Vista wouldn’t run on their old P4. Or, they are newbies who’ve bought a new laptop and blame Vista for all of the bloatware added to the machine by the manufacturer.

In any case, I’ve now moved to Windows 7 – our business has been using it for a month – and I see very little difference between it and the 2 Vista machines I’m still using at home. It’s fast and stable, but then so was Vista. Some of the desktop refinements are nice, but not much of a help, to be honest. The best desktop app I’ve added recently is Fences 1.0, which has nothing to do with Vista or W7.

When I read all the anti-Vista shrillness, all I can do is shrug my shoulders. What can I say? Vista has been good to me, and nothing like my brief but nightmarish experience with ME.