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1. Comment - Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares

   (Jul 9, 2009 - 5:40 AM)

   hmm........sure, not shutting down will solve the boot and shut time issue!! This resolves everything with vista!!!!
   
   It is strange to see why people do not believe in "Readyboost"........Even if a pen drive is surely slower than RAM, "Readyboost" works!! I am a living example - its amazing to see fantastic improvement in performance without additional RAM. To use "Readyboost", the device (pen drive) must support readyboost. Vista verifies the device when you insert it and only if it is fit (is capable of minimum speed) Vista will present the option to enable it for readyboost.

2. Comment - Not just Vista: The operating system is dying, too

   (Jul 8, 2009 - 4:36 AM)

   Although this article is good and I agree with what the author says, what is written is too simple. Like the tip of the iceberg which is only 10% of the whole iceberg.
   
   To say people do not care about the OS is an understatement. When I used win 95 for the first time, I cared for the OS. I wished there was a better OS than win 95. Given a choice (and affordability), I would switched happily!! So would most of the users of WIn 9xxxxx.
   
   Yes, Microsoft needs to make sure that if people were to pay for OS, it would be better than any free OS. I tried linux 10 years ago, pissed off with win 95/98/Me. I got even more pissed off with Linux.......though I managed to install it on my machine, I could not get most of the hardware working. Applications were not freely available. I had a dial up connection and could not get my modem to work with Linux and hence could not download whatever little was available. I moved back to windows wishing I had a better choice. Mac was simply not affordable at that point in time. So author is right in mentioning that windows survived because it ensured that it worked with most hardware with ease.
   
   But after all these years, the scenario has changed. Free OS like linux have matured, quality applications are freely available. I have 3 laptops today and run ubuntu dedicatedly on 1 of them. It installed perfectly out of the box (even configured broadcom wifi automatically!). It is the best OS I have ever seen and works blazingly fast!! Quality applications are available for free download and there is no way one would miss windows (or even think of windows). So if microsoft were to charge people for OS, it must make sure that its OS is better than what is available for free. They therefore must keep on evolving windows and make sure they were ahead of free OS!!
   
   Yes, from what I have seen so far, Windows 7 manages to come close to or as good as ubuntu. It does have some advantage in the sense that more commercial applications are available for windows (like photoshop, some games, proprietary enterprise apps etc.) than for linux. But thats about it. I would happily switch to ubuntu for rest of my life. I do not see the need to buy new hardware with Windows 7 when 2 of my existing laptops running windows give up!! Microsoft knows this and you can already see that Microsoft is selling preorder copies of Win 7 at dirt cheap rates!!
   
   The OS has already become a commodity. You don't even need to go to local electronics store to buy it. Just go to the site of your favourite linux distro and get it for free!!
   
   Ultimately Microsoft will have to provide windows free so that it can keep the windows platform alive. Maybe in distant future they will offer windows and office free, keep the platform alive and then charge for other applications that use windows platform!!!

3. Comment - Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares

   (Jul 8, 2009 - 3:24 AM)

   Agreed that Microsoft is doing everything possible to kill the OS. But doubt that most people using vista will ever dump it. I was one of the early adopters of Vista when I bought a laptop preinstalled with Vista (OEM). Yes, I had problem with speed (still have since it boots very slowly) but this was resolved without much investment by using "Readyboost" feature in Vista!! I invested in a pen drive and it was much cheaper than investing in additional ram. The only issue that I face presently is that it takes minutes to boot and shut down. Else, the machine is super fast with excellent multitasking capabilities. The performance has not dropped over the years (unlike previous versions of windows machines where you need to reinstall after a year or two) and I am happily using it day after day, everyday.
   
   So I guess Vista will not die as suggested here although Microsoft will do its best to kill Vista (else who will buy Windows 7!). I am happy with Vista and look forward to use my present machine for years to come!!