Vista, Was Windows XP too good?
Almost 1 year ago to the day, Microsoft announced that Vista was to be released to business customers on November 30th 2006 and subsequently to everyone else on January 30th 2007. A year later what has the impact of Vista been?
Major file copying bugs, Silly hardware requirements, multiple flavours that confuse ordinary people (not you geeks) and now the Service Pack that’s supposed to fix some problems apparently does not.
Conversely, contrary to Microsoft’s traditional support cycle, XP’s lifetime has been extended citing ‘people need more time to switch’. More importantly perhaps, quite a few surveys of businesses actually say they have no plans to upgrade to Vista with a significant percentage having concerns. They are choosing to remain with XP.
In my personal experience of this, several smaller companies I sometimes do work for will insist that any new PC purchases come with XP Pro and certainly not Vista. No plans to upgrade, XP does the job.
It certainly does. It makes you think did Microsoft make XP too well? It has its flaws, but then with a bit of coercion it can be made into a very stable and secure operating system. As with anything, most of the security issues are human issues. Even better, XP SP3 is showing a significant speed increase.
That’s the issue with software companies at times. If they make a product too well, nobody will upgrade. Why bother?