I read this article this morning from Computerworld. The article points out that Vista is going to over take Tiger in web usage by August. That’s fine, however, the article fails to mention a rather important point.
The reason that this is happening is because current XP users are upgrading to Vista.
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They can post all the numbers they want about Vista users…it doesn’t change the fact that Vista is a stinking pile of plagerized poo. While windows and Vista users the world over continue to pull their hair out whilst torturing themselves by using an inferior OS, I’ll be content in the knowledge that in the 1.5 yrs. I’ve had my macbook pro all the repairs have been minor. This is compared to the TONS of problems I had over the years with my windows boxen.
I’ve been doing (windows) tech support for the last 5 years. I got tired of doing the same thing at home that I was doing at work, so I went and bought something that didn’t break. ^_^
Why would someone want to upgrade to Vista?
It isn’t an upgrade, but a downgrade.
Well, in all fairness, they do mention that the increase comes from a decrease in XP use.
“Likewise, Vista’s increases have come at the expense of Windows XP and Windows 2000, both of which have dropped in usage since January. Windows XP, for instance, accounted for 85.02% of all machines that month but was down to 81.94% in June.”
Yes, I’m sure Tiger is a great OS, and Macs are great hardware, but until I can play *any* game on Tiger or any other OS other than a MS OS, there will always be a huge windows user base.
The biggests users of windows PCs are general office workers, such as people who use Word and Excel, and those that use the PC at home, which is usually for general internet, email and the big clincher, games.
While Tiger and Linux distributions have word processing and spreadsheets, email and internet easily covered, the acceptance of these OSes into mainstream workplaces is slow. If you want to remove the windows market share, you must address the issue that it is easy to employ people that have the knowledge of maintaining windows desktops. When you can employ people with skills to easily and cheaply maintain Tiger and Linux desktops, you start to remove the biggest segment of windows market share.
The other area of contention is games. yes, games exist for Linux and Mac OSes, but they are usually ports of PC games and are very rearely specifically designed for anything other than a windows computer. Windows based operating systems will continue to do well in the household while they remain the primary solution for home entertainment of computer users.
I use Vista on both my stationary PC (bought in parts) at home and my Laptop (Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad T60) I use for work. I like the OS, haven’t stumbled on to any larger issues (have used it for about 5 months). It does require more resources then XP but when “fed” with enough RAM and a sufficient graphics card it feels faster than XP (and Ubuntu) with the same hardware. Hardware benchmarks show that games run a little slower than in XP but I think that’s a matter of tuning the drivers and when the DX 10 games start showing up that will probably change. I suggest that if you have the opportunity you should try Vista out for yourself, you might be positively surprised. Right now you can’t take any reviews at face value, too much politics involved, and too many fanboys on either side.
With that said I think that OS X (Apple) will continue to gain market shares, and this is great the more healthy competition on the OS market the better. The main thing that is keeping OS X back IMHO is that you have to settle with the hardware that Apple supplies. Hardware that often has a nice design but my not be the latest available.
There is one major game company, who makes some of the most popular PC games out there, that does build for Mac. Blizzard. :)
Aaaah…I’d say, after buying a laptop recently, that it’s more the fact that the major chains are FORCING Vista on people.
“Windows overall total has remained flat, ranging between 90.01% and 90.46% through the first six months of the year”
The only reason to get Vista is to play the new games, in my opinion, and even they will eventually be ported. Till then, I’ll just use my Macbook and a Dell with XP and Suse.
Hawk, what they don’t tell you is the amount of users that downgraded from Vista to XP. I, for one, downgraded and won’t be going back anytime soon unless they make major changes.
Bah, Hawk didn’t write this. Nevermind. Subsitute “Hawk” for “Dude” and I’m not a dumbass.
Sorry my site went down because I’m retarded.
I had vista forced on me when I bought my new laptop… I can hardly use the laptop because the OP has more glitches then features. Like extracting files from .rar containers, moving stuff from usb2.0 devices or viewing a directory with several video files, or using a 3rd party firewall, or getting rid of the really useless windows-defender (that failed to protect the system from becoming infected with malware in its first 2 hours of use) etc.
Performance is awefull even with 2 gigs ram, dual core processor and new grafic controler in games.
After using it for 3 month I conclude with a hearty:
IT SUCKS !!!