It's weird that MS are blundering so badly with Vista. Server 2008 is shaping up to be a solid (if rather late) product. There's even a command-line only version (Server Core Edition).
The question MS are struggling with is "what does this do that that didn't", something Apple have been quite good at, e.g. '10.5 has Time Machine!".
Re:Vista Is Good
by mattmaroon on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @02:16PM
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I used Google Desktop Search on XP. It was nice, but not as nice as having good search built into the OS.
I largely agree that Vista isn't that compelling of an upgrade. I just don't think it's the disaster its often made out to be.
I think that my basic criticism of Vista is that it's just not worth it. It adds too much to read (I really need to do a formal study of this), too many choices to make, too many new UI paradigms (on top of the XP/2000/98/3.1 pieces still kicking around), too many things to authorize, too high hardware requirements, etc. ...
And what benefit comes from taking on all of these burdens? Nothing that I have seen yet that wasn't already implemented and more refined in other operating systems years ago.