Vista: Still being criticized after half a year of release

Chris Pirillo pointed to a fax machine and his scanner and printer lying dust in the corner, complaining that it had stopped running immediately after the Windows Vista operating system was installed on the computer.

" I can't live with Vista anymore. Why does it turn all this software to another software, does this device go to my other device as" crippled "like that? ", Pirillo commented in the paragraph. 52-minute video clip posted on YouTube.

Crazy

Nearly six months after the official release, complaints, complaints, and complaints of Vista made mistakes, Vista lacked compatibility with other products that still sounded endlessly. It all makes the advantages of Vista such as improved desktop search features, beautiful graphics and tight security.

Of course, sooner or later, Vista will become the world-dominated PC operating system. However, there are still many people who choose to live with its predecessor (Windows XP) or switch to another operating system because "end of the end".

Pirillo can be considered a sophisticated technology. He runs a technology blog network called Lockergnome and is one of the first to be invited by Microsoft to try Vista.

Yet Vista still made Pirillo's head like crazy. Cure up and down, his 3-function printer now only works with the print function. Pirillo has chosen a solution to install VMware, a program that allows him to run XP inside a Vista environment.

But when Pirillo's trial version of Vista expired, he understood that it was time to say "bye-bye" to this solution. Because it's too bad and too expensive.

So Pirillo decided to "upgrade" (the original word he said) . Windows XP.

Will still dominate

Source: The New York Times However, complaints cannot threaten Microsoft's status in the operating system district. Windows is operating more than 93% of the world's personal computers. Last fiscal year, Windows accounted for one-third of Microsoft's total revenue of 44.3 billion.

Research firm IDC predicts that Vista will be installed on the vast majority of computers shipped within the next 5 years, completely replacing Windows XP. However, it is difficult to determine the exact number using Vista at the present time.

On the other hand, it's hard to judge Vista's success by comparing it to Windows XP, because the PC market has grown strongly over the past 6 years.

One obvious fact is how Vista interacts with programs and peripheral devices that are very different from previous versions of Windows. Many businesses have decided not to invest time and money to switch to the new operating system.

. But it's a long time

One of the most annoying points is the user account management feature, which is designed to protect Web surfers from spyware and viruses.

Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes, a start-up technology firm in Silicon Valley, bought a Vista laptop a few months ago. After being harassed all day by pop-up windows to warn of potential dangers from the Internet, Cohen had succumbed and turned off the feature.

Now he is "terrorized" by pop-ups warning that turning off the User Account Management feature is very dangerous.

" I feel very uncomfortable ," Cohen said. Therefore, when he had to buy a new computer for his wife in May, Cohen chose an XP laptop made by Lenovo.

" There is no compelling reason to force users to buy Vista, " Forrester said. Businesses do not rush to upgrade. In a poll conducted by the company late last year, only 31% of the 1,600 surveyed companies plan to move to Vista this year. 22% consider Vista application after two years, the rest is shaking their heads.

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