But this time Microsoft is going to fail. And here are 10 good reasons why.

  1. This isn’t the 90’s. Moderate product does not cut it anymore. Vista maybe nice but really nothing to look forward for, no giant step.
  2. Win 3.1 was a leader, Win 95 eliminated DOS, Win 98 was about browser war, Win ME was for Y2K, Win XP just eliminated years of software bugs that Microsoft promised for a long time. What can you say about Vista.
  3. XP works pretty well, too well sometimes. A stable system, worthy of praise.
  4. With Vista, you can only reinstall once. So when your system corrupts in six months, good luck.
  5. You need a supper computer to run vista. Oh well, thats how you going to feel with your pocket book.
  6. The anti-piracy features for DVD and digital media locks you out of your own box/dvds.
  7. The $5-10 billion dollar MSN Live search engine is broken. That fact itself tells you what you need to know about Microsoft.
  8. There will be another Windows in 2-3 years, its not worth upgrading now, you have waited so long.
  9. Black Friday, Christmas, New Year, tax season gone. Now you release Vista. Is there any worse time?
  10. What extra feature from XP are you going to really enjoy for that amount of money? Is some fancy menus, worth forking so much money?

For the record: I haven’t used Vista yet, and probably won’t buy one. I will however get free legal copy to play with. I will keep XP for a long time.