Everybody's talking today about "Drivergate" - internal Microsoft e-mails that show senior Microsoft executives personally struggling to use hardware products sporting the "Windows Vista Capable" sticker. The e-mails also show that Microsoft lowered its standard for some hardware compatibility, apparently to help Intel impress Wall Street.
This revelation is simply the latest in a long series that add up to one inescapable conclusion: Windows Vista sucks. (And making it cheaper won't help, either.) Compatibility of drivers is just one issue. Another is a convoluted user interface that prevents ordinary users from gaining a sense of control over the OS.
The biggest problem isn't that the company's newest products are unusable, but that Microsoft may have actually lost the "ability" to make good operating systems. It may not be able to let go of its dogmatic insistence on the flawed vision of the same Windows "experience" from wristwatches to supercomputers.
And there is evidence that delusion or, at least, wishful thinking, prevails at Microsoft. The company's founder and chairman, Bill Gates, said last week that "Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard." Hey, Bill: Do you want to bet $10 billion on that? I doubt even that Microsoft will fix its Vista driver problem within five years. This is the same guy, by the way, who bragged that Microsoft would "solve" spam by 2006.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
No.
MAC OSX and Linux blow Windows out of the way.
personally i don't care for vista, for instance when i bought my new HP laptop the first thing i did before even starting it up once was put XP on it.
i do however like windows mobile 6 on my blackjack.. after quite a bit of tweaking and whatnot of course. but it really is quite nice. there are times when i wish it had more "phone smarts" but aside from that its pretty good (especially when you ad in all the sweet emulators you can run on it, excitebike FTW!). now if the cost of at&t's pda data plans would come down to something more reasonable then i'd be really happy.
short answer: yes
my inital beef with vista was that jack sh!t worked on it, but now that's pretty much solved
however my main problems are that a) it doesn't offer anything new or revolutionary, everything it provides could be done on XP and even some vista-only stuff like DX10 can be ported over to XP and b) im not too sure as to why there is such an excessive RAM requirement, to me it just seems like a way to push hardware even further for a financial gain (people who don't know how to upgrade, buy a new PC which most likely comes with- you guessed it, goddamn vista)
whatever- i just know im never buying another M$ product again
This is just an article from a pissed off customers. Reading it makess u believe more and more that its just full of crap. I think magazines and websites should really read articles before posting them, at least that will teach many entry level writers to do some research before writing and making wrong and just angry conclusions.
Vista establishes a relatively new era of MS OSs, its normal that it won't be perfect. However, MSs actions in cooperations with intel shows that MS and most of big corporations are more than willing to screw to consumer to make an extra buck, which is sad but true.
i have vista... why do people hate it so much, i haven't found anything wrong with it... or had problems with it.