| DirtyP2002 said: Well I got a different oppinion. MS is doing a great job with their OS (I know you guys don't like Vista, but it sells okay now after SP released, but thats another story) 95% of all PCs run on windows. Their MS Office is doing great,too. Every company is using it and teachers just accept .doc-files as digital homework. Check out numbers published by MS. Live.com can't mess with google, that is true, but it gain some marketshare so far. But of course, Google > > > Live. Did you know that live.com is ranked fourth of the most popular websites in the world? That does not mean, MS is out of the online business. They still got the most used browser and they got the greatest instant Messenger with the "Windows Live Messenger". More than 300.000.000 people are using it. MSN.com is one of the greatest webistes out there, ranked on sixth of the most popular websites of the world. Besides all that, MS is going in different markets right now. They got the Zune, which can't mess with the ipod, but did okay. They got the Xbox360 which is doing pretty good (compared to the original Xbox it is doing great) and they got live, which might turn into a cashcow with 10 million PAYING customers at the end of the generation. (right now there are 12 million members, but we don't know the correct number of gold-members, but 50/50 seems likely to me.)
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I agree.
I'm actually a big fan of Vista. I've been running it on my gaming tower since RC1. After retail release, the GPU drivers were crap for a couple of months, but it got fixed. That was pretty much the only problem I've ever had with Vista. Whenever I've had a piece of software crash in Vista, I've always been able to come out of it without a hard reboot. I've enjoyed incredible stability from the OS itself. After SP1, the UAC is a lot less naggy, and I actually don't mind it that much anyway. Once you get your computer all set up and situated, UAC doesn't really prompt you for permission all that much. Just when you install new stuff. Plus, you can turn UAC off as long as you don't mind reverting back to XP quality security.
When I got my new laptop last year, I thought it would surely have Vista issues, since I had gotten so lucky on my first Vista machine. No problems yet. It only has 1 GB of RAM, so it's not quite as snappy as my gaming tower, but it runs great. I've had no problems with either machine so far.
I have to use XP for work, and I'm totally fine with it, but I can't imagine ever going back to XP full time. In fact, I'm a tech support person for a software company and our quality control people are in the final stages of testing Vista for our software. We already have some clients running it and have had very few complaints.
The Vista backlash has been exaggerated, and most of it has been from people who haven't even used it before.
