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3 Sep 2024 21:17:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Now I understand the reason for Vista  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Jul 2010 10:40:13
Message: <4c4706cd$1@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:
> the negative backlash from Vista was simply due to it being different, 
> not worse. 

I think a lot of it was due to Vista being ready before the hardware was, so 
a lot of people bought Vista on "Vista-ready" hardware that wasn't. I.e., it 
was to a large extent a marketing rather than technical failure.  And of 
course it was pre-SP1, which always sucks.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.


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