PC Magazine editors cooling toward Vista
Jim Louderback is leaving as Editor-in-chief at PC Magazine to become CEO of Revision3 and has made an interesting choice for the subject of his last column. He’s changed his previous enthusiastic stance concerning Vista. He writes:
Rest assured, you haven’t heard the last of me. I will continue to write a column in PC Magazine. I still have too many issues to discuss with you. For example, my latest beef is with Vista.
Maybe it was something in the water? I’ve been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn’t work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly.
He then outlines a number of problems he has had with Vista and concludes:
I could go on and on about the lack of drivers, the bizarre wake-up rituals, the strange and nonreproducible system quirks, and more. But I won’t bore you with the details. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain’t cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can’t get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux.
His successor at PC Magazine, Lance Ulanoff, also seems lukewarm about Vista. He writes that Apple Macs are going to considerably increase their share of the market and says:
Ease of use and brilliant design are well-known and highly regarded weapons in the Apple arsenal (this is not news, folks). Microsoft’s Vista was supposed to be the Redmond software giant’s shot across the Apple bow, the one that would make the industry and consumers take notice and agree that Microsoft gets easy.
There is real elegance in Vista, but the more you dig, the less ease you find. Apple’s Mac and its ubiquitous OS X isn’t like that, because it’s a virtually self-contained ecosystem of hardware, operating system, applications, and even peripherals.
Even notorious Apple-basher John Dvorak has had praise for the Mac. He recently wrote:
In my opinion, I sense that the OS is more solid than Microsoft Windows, but I cannot say why exactly. I suspect that the modern underpinnings of the Unix kernel have something to do with it.
I have no plans to move to the Mac platform for my personal use. That said, I have noticed that I’ve been recommending the machine to friends and neighbors when they want to know what kind of system they should buy.
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