Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista - NYTimes.com
Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista - NYTimes.com
Vista represented a big shift from its predecessor, XP, so it required a lot of new drivers — and Microsoft did a poor job of communicating how much work was needed. Often, Microsoft said, an older driver still worked with Vista, but it slowed down the PC or made it crash unpredictably. Today, 77,000 hardware devices and components are compatible with Vista, more than twice the number when Vista was introduced.
“We are in a very different position with Vista than we were even six months ago,” said Mr. Veghte, senior vice president for Windows strategy and marketing. “And there are a lot of people holding forth with criticism of Windows Vista that have not used Vista, or not recently.”
Well, I have used Vista for months, and i am also concurrently using XP (laptop). Which makes me qualified to say that Vista sucks. I’m used to Vista and its annoyances but given a choice now, i’d still pick an XP machine over a Vista machine.
