Still misty horizon for Vista : "Nothing will stop Windows Vista from becoming the world's dominant operating system in due course, and as yet there are few signs that Microsoft is suffering financially from the pace of its adoption, but there is good reason to question whether it will ever achieve the ubiquity that XP enjoyed."
There isn't really anything which sells Vista as such. When I first loaded XP, once I'd dumped the round and bouncy kiddy safe interface, I was really pleased with how much it moved my computer forward. Vista I would not buy except I got a new laptop and it came with that. I think it has a more adult interface and looks quite nice but I don't see it as an advantage in terms of my own computing. The features built in to make it safer are largely an irritation and the fact I cannot load desktop themes is a down for me, but I quite like Vista. In an office situation XP has more of the corporate look and functionality and you wouldn't want to be held up by confirm this, are you sure that, are you the authorised one this and no, you cannot do that and that's what Vista is. XP took over because it was solid and robust and solved a lot of problems of previous Windows OS. In the work arena you need a computer that looks good and just does the job. Having outlaid on XP you'd really want to know Vista had some decent advantages because it is resource hungry. It may well take over by attrition but that's hardly a selling point.
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