Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 14 April 2008 21:50
Opinion and Analysis
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Windows Vista has been a mixed success. It started badly but recovered a little with the slow but steady release of Vista compatible drivers and software.
On one of today’s brand new and fast computers with at least 2GB or 3GB (Vista 32-bit) or 4GB of RAM (Vista 64-bit) and the latest peripherals, you can have a great Vista experience. The OS definitely offers some graphical wow, but after a while it’s not as spectacular as it once was.
In the end, eye candy is nice, but you still have to work in an operating system environment that is really just a polished up, transparent and snazzy XP interface, just as Windows 2000 and XP were polished up versions of the Windows 95 and 98 interfaces.
In the end you still have to do your work, and it’s great that it looks nicer, but it also has to be nice to use. And work with all my stuff, in a reliable manner, thanks to having a mature, well known, supremely compatible code base.
Currently, that mantle belongs to Windows XP. Windows Vista is a great operating system, but it introduced changes that were not only unnecessary and annoying, but even had a feature – UAC (Universal Access Control), or known in the Apple ads as ‘cancel or allow’ that was
specifically designed to annoy users.
Windows XP is doing the job for many people, and especially many businesses, just fine, and not everyone wants to move to Vista just yet.
If the customer is always right and is happy with their current XP installation and superior compatibility, along with the upcoming SP3, why should they be forced to change many things and go with Vista just because they want to buy a new computer?
That’s why a petition has been set up to save Windows XP from the depths of Microsoft’s dungeons, out of the reach of everyday consumers. Please read onto page 3.
