Why Windows Vista Ultimate isn’t “ultimate” enough for me
Before I begin, let me set the record straight on one thing: I like Windows Vista. Just thought I’d clear the air and let everyone know my true feelings about the operating system that is getting quite a kick in the teeth from almost everyone. I love Aero, I love the integrated desktop search (and I mean really love desktop search) and I love the fact that you can actually have a user account that is halfway "usable".
However, I can’t stand the multiple versions of Vista. Why does Microsoft feel the need to package their OS into so many different versions that no one can make heads or tails of what the differences are between any of them? Who really gets any use out of Vista Basic (essentially XP, Service Pack 3)?
Did they really need to create a stripped down version of the OS just to appease a price point issue due to the hardware requirements of Vista? I know that people have gotten used to paying $400 for a PC with XP and everything being okey-dokey. That little 512 megs of RAM is just enough to be useful with XP, but not so with Vista.
So, here is the solution that Microsoft came up with: We’ll create a stripped down version of the OS that doesn’t include the biggest feature of Vista (hello? it’s called "Vista" because of the "view"! And you don’t get the view in Home Basic! AARGHH!) so that we can sell tons and tons of cheap computers to unsuspecting people that will be thoroughly disgusted with our product when they get home.
They’ll hate us so much that they’ll return their computer and head to the nearest Apple store to pick up a shiny new MacBook.
That’s what we’ll do.
I think their plan is working.
And why do we need Vista Ultimate? What’s so Ultimate about it? The exclusive Ultimate Extras? To this point, they haven’t been so "ultimate". And there hasn’t been much extra. At least they have apologized for the shoddy state of affairs with the Ultimate program. Thanks, guys. Now if you can send down a copy of Windows Ultimate Uno, we’d really appreciate it.
We need one version of an operating system for home computers. Why does anyone think they can dictate to us what software we need and what features we might like? Just give us all of them and we’ll sort it out. Heck, we’re PC users. We’re used to getting a bunch of crap software on our computers when we buy them new. I know I love firing up a new PC that has 37 different folders in the Start Menu the first time I turn it on. Where’d all that crap come from and is any of it really useful? The answers: who cares and nope.
Microsoft, please listen. Forget the multiple versions. Go with one. Make it excellent. Stress test your OS. Let someone’s grandma be one of your beta testers and see if she understands how to use the computer. Put every utility and feature that you can think of into that operating system. Put it all in one box and release it.
No more multiple versions, please.
You’re killing me.
And you’re killing your company, ever so slowly.
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