PC Magazine disses Vista some more
Usually PC Magazine likes Microsoft products but there has been a noticeable lack of enthusiasm for Vista there. I posted about some unfavorable editorial comment previously and the chilly attitude has continued with two recent columns. Sascha Segan writes:
Here’s when you know your operating-system upgrade isn’t working: when people come into stores asking for its 7-year-old predecessor. But that’s what’s happening as shoppers come up to counters begging for Windows XP machines. For too many people, Windows Vista is just irrelevant.
Vista’s failure isn’t really about lack of compatibility with older PCs, software, and peripherals. That happens with every OS upgrade—or for that matter every hardware upgrade. It’s about Vista’s lack of a killer feature, its lack of any positive reason to move up from Windows XP.
Later in the article he blasts Vista:
Let’s cut through all the Vista promotion that’s been printed in these very pages over the past six months. Vista is a bulging bag of bloatware that resembles Windows XP with a bunch of existing third-party extensions tacked on.
In the same issue of the magazine, John Dvorak weighs in with this comment:
In all my years of covering Microsoft, Vista is one of the most inauspicious “big” products ever done by the company. When it was code-named Longhorn, all sorts of new jazzy features were promised—and they were never delivered. You’d think that after some of the difficult features were pulled out, the product would at least be streamlined and efficient, not riddled with problems.
He adds:
The Vista project turned out to be a botch.
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