Slow Death for Windows Vista - Packaged Software End of Sales Reached

[smarteyeball]

I disagree

I disagree

Seconded.

Well I agree with your disagreements...

 

[seekermeister]

An agreement to disagree negates any previous disagreement.

Win all round

Any previous disagreement still stands, the agreement is merely a means to peaceful coexistence.

 

[MartinO]

Maybe I should have given it a chance, but there must have been compelling arguement for why so many companies did not move over to it?

Vista was not as bad as many people said, companies probably had old hardware designed for XP

It's not the hardware, I just got a brand new Dell Precision M6400 at work, and that puppy is capable of juggling XP and Vista at the same time. Many companies have gone over to have their (leased) PCs and Workstations replaced after 3-5 years. But the bigger the company, the huger of a deal is the rollout of a new OS, not to mention LAN, HW drivers and all the proprietary software along with it that needs to function seamless in a productive environment. And as long as there is no business case for the whole thing, or expiring support for the OS, why should a company leave XP that looks somewhat dated and boxy, but is relatively fast and still has the reputation of running stable. And not to forget, everyone is familiar with it, so no productivity loss on that end either.

I liked the Taskbar of Vista compared to the SuperBar in 7.

+1. The only reason I HAVEN'T upgraded to 7.

+2 Hey isn't that alone reason enough to not upgrade?? (I am serious!) Wifey has Vista on her 2 yr old Dell laptop and after tons of additionally installed software over time, but maybe thanks to the same amount of upgrades, it runs fast and stable like on the first day. To my knowledge, it hasn't crashed a single time on her. And I like it's design, to me it looks a little neater, a little less sterile/perfect than W7. Kinda like a Wndows 7 "Classic". When my wife indicated interest in W7, I repartitoned the HD for a dual boot with W7, but she hasn't switched. That however may also be because up to date I have not found an equivalent driver for the integrated finger print reader, and she loves that feature.
I still have XP along with W7 on my 5 yr old machine, but I'm getting a little tired of it, not only because I have to look at it every day at work. It appears to run just a tad faster than W7 (that has a lot more additional software installed), and now I am getting curious how Vista would perform on my "classic" system that I still wouldn't want to swap with any other machine.

 

[JMH]

I disagree

I disagree

Seconded.

Well I agree with your disagreements...

I disagree with your agreeing to the disagreements.

 

[smarteyeball]

I disagree with your disagreements but agree to my agreements.

But I agree with your right to disagree, even though I agree that you are right to being disagreeable.

Do you agree?

 

[JMH]

QED [The Latin version not the Physics one.]

 

[wilywombat]

Are you sure??...and are we all in agreement or are some still disagreeable?....my latest 2 cents worth

 

[Dave76]

I agree that the nature of the disagreement is agreeable to all who disagree and agree, if we can all agree to that then we all have confirmed the disagreement.

 

[mickey megabyte]

 

[yowanvista]

:focus:

 

[wilywombat]

This little excursion has been a bit of fun though..don't you think?

 

[comicbookguy]

vista was rubbish people absolute rubbish it was a beta for 7 that's about it

 

[yowanvista]

vista was rubbish people absolute rubbish it was a beta for 7 that's about it

It was only rubbish for people trying to install it on low end XP hardware

 

[Solarstarshines]

vista was rubbish people absolute rubbish it was a beta for 7 that's about it

It was only rubbish for people trying to install it on low end XP hardware

Well said I think people who purchase the OS with out fully reading the requirments are full of Rubbish
You can't make something work if you don't take the time to understand how it works it is like putting a 1970 corvette engine in a 2010 silverado truck just doesn't work that way

alot of people try to upgrade with out a slight clue that theire hardware is absolute useless with the new OS

 

[Maxxwire]

Does anyone think vista will ever get another service pack?

Windows Vista 6.0 will never get a better service pack than 6.1.7600!

~Maxx~
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[Maxxwire]

vista was rubbish people absolute rubbish it was a beta for 7 that's about it

Making a blanket statement like that is highly inaccurate because there were many successively better versions of Vista which were developed and led up to the foundation for Win 7 beta. The version of Vista I have in my March 2008 HP laptop has run very well for nearly 3 years now.

~Maxx~
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[wds7]

Does anyone think vista will ever get another service pack?

Windows Vista 6.0 will never get a better service pack than 6.1.7600!

~Maxx~
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It will die very soon ....:devil:

 

[wds7]

Does anyone think vista will ever get another service pack?

Windows Vista 6.0 will never get a better service pack than 6.1.7600!

~Maxx~
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It will die very soon ....:devil:
Actually ..it's already death ...

 

[Maxxwire]

It will die very soon ...
Actually ..it's already death ...

In that Win 7 beta was a barely baked version of Vista much of Vista lives on and has been improved upon in Windows 7. So as the saying goes and as great as Windows 7 is...Don't forget where it came from!

I much prefer Windows 7 to Vista, but I still have my Vista laptop, use it frequently and have no problems to report having used it for nearly 3 years now.

~Maxx~
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[nitroman84]

vista was rubbish people absolute rubbish it was a beta for 7 that's about it

It was only rubbish for people trying to install it on low end XP hardware

My First laptop came with Windows 2000 from the factory and it ran vista smoothly.