has anybody have a good word to say about vista

[knobbynonuts]

Hi have looked on here ever since vista has been launched and nobody has had a good word to say about it,can it realy be that bad and also have heard from other sites that it is carp. do you think its just teething probs or is it that we are so used to xp that we dont like to change is there anybody out there in cyberspace that has a good word to say about vista (and im sticking with xp by the way)

[vehelpfulguy]

I dont think it is carp, maybe crap but not carp :-)

There are loads of comments here about Vista, and some of them are positive (not many though)

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?th readID=5388&&edition=1&ttl=20070303081836

[vehelpfulguy]

I have worked in software developent for large projects, and believe me Vista was a large project.

When a large software project starts someone sets a date a couple of years in the future when they say it will be finished. This date is mostly guesswork as nobody really knows how long it will take.

But then there are delays, and then more delays, and then senior management start to get annoyed, and one of the senior managers will say "it has to be out by January".

So everybody works towards this January date. It will not be finished by then, but it has to ship no matter what.

That is what happened with Vista.

It has taken about five years and Microsoft bosses started to get annoyed.

So Microsoft said it would ship in January, but it was not finished in January. No matter, it has to ship anyway.

So what we have is an unfinished product.

I am sure there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of bugs and problems still in it.

I would wait for Service Pack 1, maybe Service Pack2, before going to Vista.

I remember someone saying to me once

"Software is never ready, it just ships every now and again"

[vehelpfulguy]

One other thing with SOME software developers.

Software developers LOVE writing code and solving technical problems.

They will work, head down, all day and night, writing code and making all sorts of things work.

Often they are not bothered if, or when, the product actually ships.

Some of them would just keep writing code forever and never worry if it saw the light of day.

Management of course want products to ship every year or so.

So you have this battle between the software developers and management.

I think with Vista 5 years ago the software developers had some grand ideas and started by saying "hey wouldn't it be great if we could do this"

They work for months, or even years, on a project and then someone decides, hey this is getting out of hand lets kill it.

This happened with Vista, there were all sorts of grand ideas at the begining, some of which never made the final product.

Overall the development of Vista was a disaster for Microsoft, they just got too big for their boots.

Most people just wanted XP with a few extra features, but Microsoft designed a rocket ship.

Hopefully they will learn.

[rojash]

"has anybody have a good word to say about vista"

I have two good words: "Bin it"

[knobbynonuts]

hey vhg would have said crap but thought they would have pulled it on here so had to say carp but it seems that crap is ok and wont be barred so here we govista is crao crap crap and carpish as well