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Originally posted by fog:
Then I'll say it smile
Vista is junk.

Microsoft will be hurting from this in the coming year.

Bill: "Let's make Windows look cooler!"
Devs: "Ok."
Bill: "Make windows fly around the screen and more difficult to use, but look cooler!"
Devs: "That will decrease productivity."
Bill: "Make all sorts of shit translucent because it looked cool in Minority Report!"
Devs: "That will decrease productivity."
Bill: "I don't care, cool = $$$!"

Not any more. The consumer is a bit wiser these days, and they are seeing that requiring a Cray Supercomuter just to make the interface look cool doesn't equal productivity and enjoyment of the OS. Apple got it right, because they sell the system behind the OS. Vista will fail because (yet again) Microsoft took a legacy OS and just started tacking millions of lines of code onto it to... make it look cool, and assumed everyone would go buy a new PC just to do what they have been doing with XP and 2K for the last 8 years, only slower.

The good parts, the new file system (WinFS), managed code? Scrapped because they couldn't get it to work with old architecture. They focused on the UI (Aero), and figured that would be cool enough to sell it.

Well I don't think they are going to do it. Bookmark this and see how sales are in a year.
Guys,

Read my first post. I'm not disagreeing, but the title is extremely misleading and it struck a nerve is all.
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