Why?
Because it is a FLOP.

I love that they released it knowing it `wasn’t where it should be’.

Another cute trick they’re using is to force vendors to sell `Vista with a downgrade option to XP’ instead of plain old XP. That will artificially inflate their numbers quite nicely.

Have I mentioned how safe and stable I find Ubuntu?

I’m thinking that my next foray into a personal computer is probably going to be some form of UMPC and be a linux distro.

I’m tired of M$’s antics and shenanigans.

I also think that firefox and Google have given M$ a good case of heart burn, hence the “get out the bike and pedal pedal PEDAL LIKE HELL” marketing and promotion noise.

it’s the M$ SNAFU, should we expect anything less?

I have jumped over to Ubuntu and have not looked back…

I highly recommend it!

Thanks everyone for your comments and for sharing your opinions with us.

“Windows Vista now supports more than 77,000 printers, cameras, speakers and other devices.”

Doesn’t mean it will recognize yours, Lexmark hasn’t made ink or drivers for my printer since Vista shipped, but Ubuntu is still compatible with it just by plugging it in, and ink refill kits are the bomb anyway.

“More than 2,700 software programs are “Certified for” or “Works with” Windows Vista-logoed; 97 of the top 100 consumer applications are compatible.”

I don’t have a single program with this logo, and Windows Vista usually bombs out on older software that I still use and love that Wine runs excellently. (Not saying Wine is perfect, but it’s free/libre software that was just GIVEN to me, so I guess that means I shouldn’t “wine” about it.

“62% of small businesses said Windows Vista saves them time, and 70% said it makes them more productive, according to an independent survey. ”

A survey that Microsoft financed is suspect enough, but assuming it was reasonably accurate, does this mean that nearly 40% of businesses said it doesn’t save them time/impedes what they’re trying to get it to do, and that 30% say that the UAC prompts and system restore/vss/ineding service monopolizing the computer’s resources actually slow them down?

When something is a $200 purchase per system, and has a shelf life of only a couple years, I say having 30-40% of your respondents, in a probably-rigged survey anyway telling you to shove it, should probably phase a company into thinking that maybe 40% of their business customers are an “at-risk” segment, at risk of switching to something that works better.

“More than 140 million copies of Windows Vista have been sold, making it the fastest selling operating system in Microsoft history. Even Macs run it.”

140 million copies sold is where Microsoft stops caring, even if the customer ultimately flees back to XP, or over to Linux, they still did “sell” him a copy, what about people like myself that bought a really good deal refurb system with no intention ever of keeping Vista?

Most of their success though stems from just how hard to avoid they’ve become, but whether they like it or love it, both Mac OS X and Linux have doubled in user share over the last two years, driving Windows down from 96.5% of desktops, to 91%, they’re employing a classic Microsoft strategy in announcing that Windows 7 will be here soon, to try to plug the leaking dam with their finger, when the second half of 2009 gets here and they tell us wait another year, I’m going to roll my eyes, by the time it does ship, OS X and Linux could have bled them down to 85%, the “Firefox effect” anyone?

“71 percent of Windows Vista customers like it better than their last operating system.”

More statistics, so nearly 30% say it’s worse? And what was their last operating system? Could have been Windows NT, 2000 is it was a business, or 98/Me if it was a home user, the problem with this is that both of those are so old, that you have to get fairly creative about how you administer them, Windows 98 was never a good OS, and it’s virtually impossible to continue using now.

And Microsoft is mainly treading on it’s own turf in asking that question, could be that people have just expected tons of new features, regardless of how well they suit their needs, or like the eye candy even though they don’t know that they should have to put up with DRM, and WGA.

“People familiar with Windows Vista are two to three times more likely to have a favorable impression of it.”

I’m familiar with Windows 3.1-Vista, and I’ve never felt as much angst towards a piece of software, I feel that by design, it just gets in my way too much of the time, I’d rather have Windows 95 back if I had to choose a Windows and live with it.

Hi Ryan,
Good points.