Windows Vista Will Kill Microsoft ?

I’m going to break from tradition and blog a bit about Vista’s flaws today. So if that doesn’t interest you, feel free not to read this.

Vista would kill Microsoft, here’s reason why: Apple has fans. Microsoft has reluctant users.

I recently read an article on why Windows is so slow, and how Vista looks to be even slower. The big thing is backwards compatability. Microsoft insists on maintaining 90%+ backwards compatability. When you maintain that and add new features as well, it just has to slow things down.

Apple, on the other hand, broke from all that back in 2001 with OS X. If you were running OS X, guess what? You couldn’t run OX 9 applications. The change was somewhat painful, but it resulted in a much better, faster OS with a cleaner architecture.

Microsoft’s bloated Windows OS may be what kills the company. It keeps bundling its software resources which makes newer version of Windows to add more compatibility and at the same time include new features but at the cost of sacrificing its speed.

If Microsoft keeps maintaining its backwards compatability, it will die because it will slow to a crawl. If they ditch their backwards compatability, it will be so painful that many will shun Windows for Mac or (heaven forbid) Linux. May be then LucIfiar would be making us a Linux to Mac OS X Transformation Pack!

The truth is that Windows has never came up with anything significant after XP. They own their failure to unsuccessful Media Center PCs and even more miserable Tablet Lap Tops. Windows group was so much engaged in developing updates for ‘Service Packs’ that it continued to lag behind the very high standards being set by Apple’s Mac OS X. In mean time there were 5 versions of OS X launched, each with newer user friendly features such as Dashboards or Widgets, Desktop Search, Sleek UI and list goes on and on.

Vista is thought to be 40% more complex than XP. There are still rumours that Microsoft has lost the track of such complex code in Vista, and that it decided to launch the OS rather ‘incomplete’.

P S: I don’t plan to buy Windows Vista. Do you?

- Windows X's Shrine