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180 Million Vista forced on us!
5 Comments Jul-29-2008 | Posted by Orhan Toker | Printable Version |

Dear Friends,

Cursing Microsoft, suing Microsoft and giving the biggest government contracts to other software companies is a reflex. Despite all these, I find Microsoft successful. Microsoft is on almost all of the computers sold in the world. Apart from the Windows ME failure, Microsoft should be given credit for brilliant products such as XP and 2003 Server.

Eventually I tought about the possibility of a company that sells this much making a mistake. It seems as though there haven’t been any mistakes this 7 year span since the XP, releasing Vista so suddenly as if to say “hey we forgot to release a new product” made me angry. The dumbest operating system I have ever seen is being sold as different packages and at ridiculous prices. If anyone wants to sue Micrsoft, they sould go ahead and accuse them of fraud (false promises made) and forcing its products on us.

According to a recent press release by Microsoft, Vista has circulated around 180 million packages. Be careful about the phrase here, they don’t say it sold 180 million copies or downloaded updates! They distributed licenses at almost no cost to all the notebook producers in the world and indirectly led them to themselves. Notebooks with Vista Basic (which is good for basically nothing) and the ultra-slow Vista Home Premium can not be converted to XP even if you want to convert them, because the hardware drivers are well hidden and repair services do it for you for almost the cost of a new licence.

Since there is almost nobody that bought Vista with his own free-will, this 180 millions seems like it was forced upon us through the notebook and new pc sales. God give the Vista notebook users patience! Also, please let me know if there is any product that costs less than $ 3,000 and has more than 4.5 points on the Vista index.

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5 Responses to “ 180 Million Vista forced on us! ”
  1. frank
    Jul 29, 2008
    Reply

    Hi,
    I totally agree with you, Orhan. Me too was forced to buy vista along with my new notebook, and yes indeed, it is sloooooow. Fortunately the new desktops at work have XP: 2Gb of Ram and Core 2 Duo-processors: this rocks

    Frank

  2. Mark Smithson
    Jul 29, 2008
    Reply

    Orhan,
    while we all agree that MS Vista is not the best OS in the world, your words sound excessively strong (considering they come from someone that sells a technical dinosaur such as AutoCAD).

    Try to imagine how your PC would be today if Microsoft would have used the same development process and innovation drive as Autodesk. You would be using a DOS shell (called “DOS Pro 2009 for Advanced Users”) with over 13,435 commands. Your PC screen would be a small text-only area in a screen completely covered by hundreds meaningless icons.

    Mark

  3. Orhan Toker
    Orhan Toker
    Jul 30, 2008
    Reply

    @Mark,
    I can not imagine text based side menu for Autocad 2009 :)

    I noticed that Micrsoft is a success story at the beginning of my article.

    The problem is we don’t have a choice of XP/Vista while buying a new machine.

  4. rasmasyean
    Jul 31, 2008
    Reply

    Everyone has their likes/dislikes and smooth rides/rough bumps. But before you decide to speak for the rest of the world on what is “forced upon us”, please consider the real statistics.

    OK here’s some rough calculations:

    16.14% of internet users are Vista
    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11

    1.4 billion internet users
    http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

    Assuming the usage rate is consistent around the world…
    1.4 billion * 16.14% = 226 million Vista internet users

    The actually user base would be significantly less (i.e. 180 million) than the above number only if for some reason, Vista users surf the internet WAY MORE than all other OS’s to skew the percentage up to 16.14%. It’s probably more likely that that some Vista users don’t use the internet much because it’s for work mostly. Hence there is likely more than 226 million Vista users.

    Hitslink logs statistics in the “rich” (and more regulated) nations. Here Vista adoption is probably held back a little by expense. So that could mean that Vista adoption in other “poorer” (Gov’t don’t give a crap) nations is much greater than 16.14% since you can like buy it at the local fruit shop for like $1, etc.

    http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rate

    Hey, if you include ALL of Asia? 500 million Vista users??? ;)

    “God” isn’t going to help you. Someone better at computers should likely help you select a computer with a 4.5 index. :)

  5. Orhan Toker
    Orhan Toker
    Jul 31, 2008
    Reply

    Hey you surely knocked out me!
    Thank you very much for your valuable info.

    Regards.


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