What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider’s Retrospective

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I used Vista for many years and was fine with it. The real problem was bad publicity. Tastemakers decided that it sucked and so went public opinion.

The real disaster was windows 8's user interface change. That really deserved to be panned. Microsoft was so cocky as to think that forcing a new interphase on users was a good thing. It was stupid.

I'd like an insider's view on that.

Did you use Vista pre SP1? That was a terrible OS to use. Also Microsoft approved Vista for pre-install on devices with specs that could barely use it. Finally the approve/cancel security elevation implementation (which was finally fixed) was a cluster.

Many reasons why it was received poorly and deserved its reputation.

Excellent article. Quotable on top of quotable for us DevOps folks.

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