Why does Vista suck so much?

[LSK]

:banghead: :grr:

[Pierre.Suave]

1. because silly...

it isnt OSX...:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I'll take a wild stab here

It's made by Microsoft? :shrug:

[billyskank]

3. Because all the brightest programmers have been leaving Microsoft for years

and the ones that are left are frustrated because technical decisions are taken for marketing reasons.

Microsoft don't know what to do with Windows any more. On the one hand you have Apple, who craft OS/X like a fine sculpture, and on the other you have Linux, which moves seemingly chaotically but never stands still. They can't compete with it. They're too large to turn around quickly and can't change bad decisions anyway because the bad decisions are made by people with huge egos (Bill and Steve).

Microsoft would be toast if it weren't for the billions of dollars in cash they have; for that reason at least, if nothing else, they'll be with us for a while yet. But Vista is widely acknowledged to be a crock, and given how long it was in development it's difficult to see what they'll do about it. Keeping people on XP and continuing to support it with service packs doesn't look too attractive either; who wants to be shipping an OS that first appeared in 2001?

[LSK]

4. Visual Studio 2003 is not supported

Visual Studio 2005 is supported only after a service pack. How lame is that?

[billyskank]

5. Ultra lame.

I had to use Visual Studio 2003 at work, to port a C program I had written on Unix to run on Windows. It did my head in. Nothing worked the way it should - even fucking realloc() didn't seem to work how it was supposed to.

[Perseid]

6. If it didn't suck so much

it would blow?

[Orsino]

7. So no other company decides to sue over it.

They're not gonna claim any piece of it as their own.

[martymar64]

8. I don't know

I have a Mac. I upgraded to their new OSX Leopard last week and it runs like a champ. But then again, it ran great before as well.