XP had even lower market share when it first came out. People didn't like XP at all! Vista is more liked now than XP was when it came out. It'll just take time.
PC World has called it one of The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,1-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
Read that before. Didn't think much if it then or now. It lists the IPhone and Office 2007 there. Everyone I know who uses these 2 products love it. Still with SP1 out now, it is a new scene altogether. More vendors then ever are now providing driver support and those that came out with dodgy drivers previously are bringing better coded ones. Just an interesting aside, when Computer Magazines do the Best Product of the Year or Worst Product of the Year, in whatever category, take their views with more then a pinch of salt. I worked in a large computer magazine once and towards the end of the year, all the journalists, techos etc got together to nominate products in various categories for Product of the Year awards. Obviously the most coveted award would be the Overall Best Product of the Year. Towards the end of the meeting, the Editor walks in and tells us a product we had not even nominated (in any category) was to be the Overall Product of the Year. End of discussion. To say many of us were floored would be an understatement. The product by the way was Internet Explorer 4.0
Vista is best, I'm running 64 bit version on 3GB RAM/Dual x64 machine, apps load fast and very stable.
Microsoft To Release XP SP3 Next Week: XP gets a news lease on life. http://keznews.com/4218_Microsoft_To_Release_XP_SP3_Next_Week
Most of the time it's user's fault. I use Vista on Barton 2500+ with just 1 GB RAM and IDE HDD and it runs damn well. Optimize it a little if it's not OK.
Actually Microsoft is blaming Apple: CoreBrand put out a study showing Microsoft's brand having dropped precipitously over the past two years, with the marketing firm saying that it believes Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads are partly responsible. http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9900920-56.html?%5E$
I bought a laptop yesterday with 2GB RAM and Vista works really well, and I like it much, much better than XP. It has lots of new features, and despite the fact it requires quite huge memory, it has great new features and capibilities and the sleek new look. And I have heard about SP3, I don't know which Service Pack I have, would I get the SP upgrade free of charge or would I have to pay for that upgrade?
and business dictates the market (chicken/eggg) ex: most gamers upgrade their system to pay newer games. alot of people hate vista because its different. you cant find stuff that you use everyday on XP. pluss some of your most used programs dont run at all, pluss your your 512mb -1gb of RAM that made xp run like its on crack is beging raped by vista. truth is if you have 2gb of ram and a usless SD card vista can out perform XP.
Within the last three weeks, I helped to downgrade 3 laptops back to XP. Personally, I decided to support the open-source community more and went straight to Linux Ubuntu. I would love to see more people going ubuntu as vista nor XP are the future in OS. At the same time, I think Mac is going to where Microsoft is...
Hehe, as Windows's market-share is about 90%, it's just a dream for Ubuntu to take at least 1% That's just an illusion.
There are so many flavors of Linux out there that people (Gamers, Publishers, Web Surfers, etc) should find something they like. If you have an old computer you should put it to good use and install Linux on it.
Just some questions: How many Vista haters around here actually tried Vista? How many Vista haters around here actually tried Vista for other purposes than just games? How many Vista haters around here actually had viruses/trojans/whatever on Vista? How can I manage my system so I don't have an AV, just the Windows Firewall, and all works great, without problems, viruses, and so on. Maybe just 1% of you, to self-respond to all that question. So all the problems are just reasons, not facts, just myths for creating flames on forums, just guesswork, not true tests. Just my two cents.