bloodline wrote:
Microsoft are in the unenviable position of having to get past Vista, without admitting Vista was a huge failure and mistake... I know only one person who regularly uses Vista... everyone else I know, who doesn't use a Mac, either has stayed with XP, or downgraded their machines (which came pre-installed with Vista) to XP...
XP works... it's a know quantity. Operating systems aren't sexy... they just need to work.
I use Vista every day at work and have done since last May, and to be fair, I haven't noticed anything majorly wrong with it compared to XP. Although saying that, I do have quite a hefty machine. People seem to curse it as if was the devils own OS compared to wonderful, reliable XP. And yet how people forget how much XP was complained about 8 years ago. I wonder how many here vowed to stick with Windows98SE rather than using the 'Fisher-Price' XP. Quite a few I'd imagine.
Anyway, I thank that distancing itself is far more beneficial than trying to save face on a failure. Any changes could be touted as an improvement. Besides, dropping the aurora and the silly line motif is hardly an earth shattering admission of defeat. Design languages change all the time. They need to give Windows 7 its own identity.
