What's Wrong With Vista

Microsoft is trying hard to polish up Vista's image.

Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista.

"Oh wow," said one user, eliciting exactly the exclamation that Microsoft had hoped to garner when it first released the operating system more than 18 months ago. Instead, the operating system got mixed reviews and criticisms for its lack of compatibility and other headaches.

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At this point many of the annoying bugs that first appeared in Vista are gone. This still misses the point. What's wrong with Vista is what isn't wrong with XP. XP works pretty well. Vista offers mostly eye-candy and slower operation due to that. From a business user and sys admin's viewpoint there is no there there. Top that with the need for an outlay of money and a learning curve for the way some old features now have new names and locations and try to figure out the motivation.

I can't.