Get To Business.

I just finished reading a post that popped up in my feed about another Vista user ‘upgrading’ back to Windows XP. This is nothing new, I have read such depressing stories before (and people are getting more creative). I got my first taste of Vista just about a month ago, and I can confirm its suckiness is at an all time high.

It’s been over a year since Vista launched, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better. Windows 98 and XP had their launch problems and users were slow to migrate, but it was never bad when the it was such a consensus that upgrading to Vista is actually a major downgrade. It’s hard for me to see a good way for Microsoft to resolve this. Besides fixing all the compatibility issues (which is a MAJOR undertaking), do they have any intention of reworking the UI? What if this version of Windows never replaces XP as the main Windows product?

Bill Gates has basically admitted “Yep, it sucked ass” in this video. For how long does will this farce continue?

I feel this is the time for a major OS developer to come forth. Loyalty to Microsoft is at an all time low, with users hanging on to their old (and sometimes key-expired) version of Windows XP. A serious player could make a major splash and maybe even make a dent with a good product (And sorry Linux people, mainstream users are not ready for command-line goodness). Maybe if someone took some Linux build (Ubuntu anyone?) and made a commercial ready product out of it? One can only hope.