In spite of the heavy and widespread criticism, Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows Vista, managed to once again increase its popularity in August, leaving behind not only outdated Windows 2000, but also outstripping Apple’s Mac OS!
In August the share of Windows Vista-based computers used to browse the Internet was 6.26%, up considerably from June and July, according to data collected by Net Applications, a provider of Web tools. The shares of Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems decreased slightly to 3.66% and 80.48%, respectively, which is quite natural as old computers are replaced with new ones and a lot of systems nowadays come with Windows Vista operating system.
It is interesting to note that currently the share of Windows Vista-based personal computers is even higher than that of Mac OS-based systems, which are used by 6.15% of users. Still, Apple is also gaining popularity slowly but surely, something which cannot be said about “other” operating systems, namely outdated Windows versions, Linux OSes and so on, which have been losing market share for many months now and are used in 3.44% of systems that are used for Internet browsing.
In late July Microsoft said it had managed to sell 60 millionth copy of Windows Vista operating system (OS) late in June and that the install base of Vista eclipsed the whole install base of Apple computers in the first five weeks of sales.
It was unclear at press time how many computer systems Net Applications tracked in August, 2007.
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Considering they force you to buy Vista it's not a victory, they had to force the big oem's not to sell XP.
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Posted by: Woz
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Date: 09/10/07 01:45:28 PM]
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Yeah I had to switch because HP stopped providing good driver updates for XP for my new laptop, so got it free through the school.
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Posted by: RW
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Date: 09/10/07 04:45:06 PM]
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Vista isn't THAT bad. Come on. I mean, you can turn UAC off and such.
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Date: 09/10/07 08:59:56 PM]
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If you disable UAC, then what's the point of having it in the first place?
UAC gets you to pay attention to wtf is going. Linux and OSX do the same thing...BUT far less irritating. (They only ask permission on the real important stuff. Not nag the hell out of you like a needy girlfriend or boyfriend.)
Vista is crap because everyone knows its just another pathetic attempt for Microsoft to "encourage" (ie: corner) the consumer into THEIR game. The very moment the end user says: "FUCK NO! NO MORE! I'm done"...That's when you see MS start to worry.
Vista was hyped too much. Those so-called security measures have done jackshit. They're bandages, not real solutions. If security was properly implemented (even have the core OS re-written), it would utterly change the security landscape. Companies like Symantec would be shitting their pants! But no. Vista has done jack.
Those who blindly accept or sympathize with Vista are the same losers who accept mediocre life. (accept shit they're given...Take it up the arse without question, etc).
Have a think about why Windows and MS Office are the two biggest money makers for Microsoft. Here's a hint: Bundling the OS with prebuilt systems and control of document formats.
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Posted by: tumbler
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Date: 09/11/07 04:49:49 AM]
UAC thats the useless feature that keept asking do you really really want to do this.. every single time you tried to do something.. if you saved a file from the internet and mada folder even such a simple thing it was there questioning the user.. its only disturbing the workflow.. totally useless IMO.
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Posted by: Silver
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Date: 09/11/07 12:07:16 PM]
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ha .. Vista isnt THAT bad.. until you want to listen to music, or maybe a TV show, and while you're doing that, you want to copy that legally aquired movie you just purchased onto your fileserver on you 100mbit network... but wait.... You can only transfer 10mbits/second... Now, streaming that video, copying that movie, and downloading that game all consume part of that 10mbit..
Way to go!
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Posted by: Klauzain
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Date: 09/10/07 09:21:08 PM]
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bah! Vista just sucks! Full stop! It's a plague on my Acer laptop (home premium), cumbersome UAC and a lot of confusing or missing menus in Explorer and other strange ways to make harder my PC life. Much MUCH better the good old XP, mature and faithfull. It's just a shame to impose this abort (Vista) to the masses, c'mon Bill, come back to DOS!
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Posted by: Welter
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Date: 09/10/07 10:51:26 PM]
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I got original Home Premium with my laptop. I installed it and tried to convince myself I can work with it. After spending hours on clicking that I am sure I want to start this or that, disabling UAC, than clicking constantly that I want to disable UAC (its not problem detected) I installed winrar. When I dragged with right mouse rar-ed file and clicked extract here and nothing happened, I promptly uninstalled it and put XP. Its totaly unuseable for serious work. I will try it again when SP1 comes out.
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Date: 09/11/07 01:45:07 AM]
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vista = just another ms grab @ your hard earned $'s
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Date: 09/12/07 08:28:35 AM]
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