vista ultimate better- reason for leopard delay

[JFreak]

I have no doubt that give 6-12 months, Vista will also be a solid useable OS that will be preferred over XP by all but a handful of people.

First of all, "the new one" should be preferred since the day it comes out. If the company does a good job, that should always be the case. The fact that it isn't proves that Microsoft has failed with Vista and is now only trying to fix its faults.

Second, I believe there comes a time very soon when XP becomes hard to get and its support for new hardware might also become worse as time goes by. You are giving Vista "up to a year" to be usable, but after that, is XP really even an option? People learn to deal with Vista because many of them have to.

To summarise; Microsoft keeps IT staff at work

 

[IJ Reilly]

Second, I believe there comes a time very soon when XP becomes hard to get and its support for new hardware might also become worse as time goes by.

Can you purchase a new OEM PC with XP installed anymore? I'd be very surprised if you could.

 

[TBi]

First of all, "the new one" should be preferred since the day it comes out. If the company does a good job, that should always be the case. The fact that it isn't proves that Microsoft has failed with Vista and is now only trying to fix its faults.

As opposed to when Tiger came out and broke a whole load of applications so companies had to release new version. Or when Panther came out and the same happened.

Both Apple and MS have trouble whenever a new OS comes out. It's understandable with such a complex system. I know that when leopard comes out it will have a few glitches that will be fixed when the first point release comes out. That doesn't make it a bad OS or apple a bad company.

 

[JFreak]

As opposed to when Tiger came out and broke a whole load of applications so companies had to release new version. Or when Panther came out and the same happened.

You're talking about applications now. Sure, new application releases might be needed but that's just the way of life. Applications are supported on OS version X and might require hardware Y to function, and that's perfectly normal. If you run applications on an unsupported system, you can definetely expect them to fail at some point.

I know that when leopard comes out it will have a few glitches that will be fixed when the first point release comes out. That doesn't make it a bad OS or apple a bad company.

Now you're talking about operating systems. If operating system is so severely flawed to begin with that users actually prefer the old system, then one has to call it flawed. As I see it, Apple users have preferred Tiger over Panther over Jaguar over Puma and the only time there was a doubt was during transition from classic Mac OS to this new Unix-based OSX. It was a big paradigm shift so the doubt was justified.

But Windows users preferring XP (released in 2001) over Vista (released in 2007) is beyond belief. Six years of work and it ends with worse system? Unbelievable.

Let's face it; Windows people do not mostly have problems with Windows applications but with Windows itself. There's a big difference!

 

[clevin]

But Windows users preferring XP (released in 2001) over Vista (released in 2007) is beyond belief. Six years of work and it ends with worse system? Unbelievable.

its unbelievably naive to think Vista is severely flawed, and if history mean anything to you, you should remember windows users always complain the new system from M$, from win 98 until now.
I still remember my roommate was persistently refusing to load windows 98, windows 2000 users bashed windows xp, "experts" warned user to wait 6 month to try windows xp....

no offense, but vista being worse or better is not a judgment you or me can make.

 

[jdechko]

Can you purchase a new OEM PC with XP installed anymore? I'd be very surprised if you could.

Dell initially pulled XP, but it was reinstated (on some models) as an option because the public outcry. Several business/professional computers are also still available with XP

 

[gnasher729]

Sloppy programming? ROFL. Perhaps on Microsoft's part, because they never released an update. It's running under emulation; Rosetta performs spectacularly, easily three or four times faster than any emulator I've ever encountered.

Office 2008 for Mac will perform at full speed.

I work at a medical IT company; first thing we do when we get a new Vista machine is reimage it to XP. We're not going to talk about Vista for eighteen months.

Just as a comment: I have Microsoft Office on my MacBook (1.83 GHz, Core Duo not Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM) and Word and Excel run without any fan noise. Word uses about 3.4% CPU even when it's doing nothing; that is a bit annoying but has nothing to do with Rosetta. I wish they had gone a bit easier on fancy effects (transparency for tool windows seems rather pointless to me), but all in all a MacBook handles Office just fine. And there was an update some time last week that seems to make startup times a lot quicker.