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--Paul Thurrott
April 19, 2006
Wow! Paul really opens up on Vista in this article. A little surprised but we've all tested this thing. I guess it reminds me of when Toto pulls back the curtain in the wizard of oz to see the king pulling the handles to make the great and powerful Oz talk.
Windows Vista February 2006 CTP (Build 5308/5342) Review, Part 5: Where Vista Fails
" Promises were made. Excitement was generated. None of it, as it turns out, was worth a damn. From a technical standpoint, the version of Windows Vista we will receive is a sad shell of its former self, a shadow. One might still call it a major Windows release. I will, for various reasons. The kernel was rewritten. The graphics subsystem is substantially improved, if a little obviously modeled after that in Mac OS X. Heck, half of the features of Windows Vista seem to have been lifted from Apple's marketing materials.
Shame on you, Microsoft. Shame on you, but not just for not doing better. We expect you to copy Apple, just as Apple (and Linux) in its turn copies you. But we do not and should not expect to be promised the world, only to be given a warmed over copy of Mac OS X Tiger in return. Windows Vista is a disappointment. There is no way to sugarcoat that very real truth. "
April 19, 2006
Wow! Paul really opens up on Vista in this article. A little surprised but we've all tested this thing. I guess it reminds me of when Toto pulls back the curtain in the wizard of oz to see the king pulling the handles to make the great and powerful Oz talk.
Windows Vista February 2006 CTP (Build 5308/5342) Review, Part 5: Where Vista Fails
" Promises were made. Excitement was generated. None of it, as it turns out, was worth a damn. From a technical standpoint, the version of Windows Vista we will receive is a sad shell of its former self, a shadow. One might still call it a major Windows release. I will, for various reasons. The kernel was rewritten. The graphics subsystem is substantially improved, if a little obviously modeled after that in Mac OS X. Heck, half of the features of Windows Vista seem to have been lifted from Apple's marketing materials.
Shame on you, Microsoft. Shame on you, but not just for not doing better. We expect you to copy Apple, just as Apple (and Linux) in its turn copies you. But we do not and should not expect to be promised the world, only to be given a warmed over copy of Mac OS X Tiger in return. Windows Vista is a disappointment. There is no way to sugarcoat that very real truth. "