m2bord's Journal: Another sign of old age

Microsoft says that they have seen a 50% reduction in the number of pirated versions of Vista as they see in XP. Well there could be a reason for that beyond the PR spin.

Most of my friends run Windows products for gaming and for ease of available software. That's why I run it but I've got clients that have purchased new computers with Vista loaded on them. They have had nothing but problems. Networking issues, driver compatibility issues, and even software compatibility issues. We will not even discuss the problems with Windows Genuine Advantage that seemingly only punishes legitimate users of Microsoft products because we all know that pirated versions have work arounds.

So maybe, just maybe, the reason why Microsoft says that there are fewer pirated installations of Windows Vista is because it's a bad OS. I mean come on..how many people do you know that rejoiced in having a pirated version of Windows Millenium Edition? Yes...Vista is just about that bad.

It's not the worst OS out there. It really does work well for someone in a one PC household with a broadband connection and maybe a wired LAN connection. But I would avoid it in a multi-pc environment and I especially would not use it in a mission critical environment.

In fact, I would expect this OS to be ignored by most organizations. I think they will wait for Microsoft's next newest offering. I think that's due out in 2009. It's got to be better than this but I could be mistaken.

Hey..I always reserve the right to be wrong.