- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Reclaimer34
Yes, I still don't see what the fuss is about. It's just XP Redux.
This is not entirely true. Vista is a new OS, with everything that the word "new" implies. Yes, it will have many of the same features, capablities, etc, etc, of XP, but Vista was coded from scratch. Brand new. I'm not saying that the entire OS was pure-coded for 400 million lines, but they are in most ways, not similar at a code level.
MS realized that they needed to do something new, something drastic, in order to keep up with hardware advances, as well as challenging hardware to advance, in order to remain top dog. They know that an XP "upgrade" won't suffice. This has been made manifest by the fact that the base Vista code (In its very early stages) has been scrapped more than once. Consider also that Vista has been over six years in development! That's not an upgrade, that's an overhaul.
Why can't they just develop H3 for Vista, and let existing XP users have H2?
This is actually not a bad idea. You've got my vote. Unfortunately, we are dealing with Microsoft. They can do whatever they darn well please with their products; nothing we can do about that :-(
Don't they realize that users like myself aren't gonna go out and buy Vista just so they can play one game? This is gonna be bad for sales, I just know it.
Also not entirely true. There will be many fanboys out there that will purchase Vista just to play H2PC. There will be many fanboys out there that will purchace Vista just to have the lastest and greatest OS available.
The fact of the matter is, eventually, a slight majority (Don't worry, Apple and Linux/ and F/OSS will still be around) of the PCs in the world will be running some variant of Vista. Just like it is with XP today. When XP was new six years ago, most people were hesitant to get a copy. I was. I didn't get a copy of XP until 2002. I probably won't get a copy of Vista until 2008.
Regardless of what I say, what everyone else says, Vista IS the newest in OS deployment, it WILL be actively distributed by PC manufacturers. XP WILL eventually be unsupported by MS.
If there was no progression, where would we be as a civilization today? We wouldn't.