Vista: Do you blame anyone, and if so, who? [modified]
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Seems to me that a big part of the problem was too many "visionaries" promising silly, but flashy (and relatively hard to develop), features with very little solid reasoning of why businesses need Vista versus a solid XP service pack 3. Ultimately, the state of Vista betrays the state of Microsoft itself. It is unfocused and badly managed at the highest levels and often appears more concerned at being big than in actually serving its customers and stockholders. The sorry state of Visual Studio 2005 is but another example of this. (Disbanding the IE team then putting it back together is probably an even better example.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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[or should that be "whom"?] The media have made Vista bashing - more accurately, Vista timetable bashing - almost a reflex action in the same way you say "um" or "er" to fill in gaps of sentences. But I'm wondering: Do you care? Has it affected you materially or strategically? And if you are looking to point the finger who are you pointing it at - the developers, the middle managers, the marketers, or the guys at the top? I was just trying to imagine what it would be like to be a dev working on Vista and be in a position of constantly having to defend your work when it's not even been released yet. I was wondering if this would be demoralising (why bother...) or motivating (this will shut them up!). -- modified at 22:36 Wednesday 16th August, 2006
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
It affects me in that when i bought my MSDN Team Dev sub last year i was expecting to get Vista (GA) this year (before my sub expired). With nothing else (interesting) on the horizon i was going let my sub lapse. However, with a new sub being more than 2x a renewal i have to think about what platforms i'm going to support for the next 2 yrs. I don't really consider this a coincidence (conspiracy theory). So, if i let the sub lapse i will basically have decided that i will not dev/support Vista for at least 2 yrs. At this point i am sorely tempted to do just that, we'll see.
...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I'm still waiting to see what becomes of OGL on it before I go and burn down MS campus.
OGL is already handled. MS allowed the driver ICD to access the interface. nVidia already has their OGL interface ready.
Direct3D and OpenGL now use common window manager interfaces To allocate system resources and send rendering commands to the GPU hardware The Windows Vista CD does not include ICDs Driver with ICD must be downloaded from web site the same as Windows XP Windows Vista Beta2 ICD available today From NVIDIA at www.nvidia.com Drivers will soon be available from ATI – watch this space Microsoft has a layered OpenGL over D3D for basic functionality Only used if no ICD is presentfrom http://www.khronos.org/developers/library/siggraph2006/OpenGL_BOF/[^] see: NVIDIA_-_OpenGL_on_Vista.ppt_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I read about that. My concern is this may change. It's still in beta and MS has been known to completely change stuff for RTMs.
Jeremy Falcon
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[or should that be "whom"?] The media have made Vista bashing - more accurately, Vista timetable bashing - almost a reflex action in the same way you say "um" or "er" to fill in gaps of sentences. But I'm wondering: Do you care? Has it affected you materially or strategically? And if you are looking to point the finger who are you pointing it at - the developers, the middle managers, the marketers, or the guys at the top? I was just trying to imagine what it would be like to be a dev working on Vista and be in a position of constantly having to defend your work when it's not even been released yet. I was wondering if this would be demoralising (why bother...) or motivating (this will shut them up!). -- modified at 22:36 Wednesday 16th August, 2006
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Doesn't affect me one bit. Still using W2K at home, and am even migrating most of my activity to Linux and Mono. I'm tired of having to buy a new product to get fixes. I was excited at first at having a file system to run SQL against with a 3d like view and the whole relational model for file associations, but they're trimming that. So, dunno. MS is tied to their OS and Office releases for the bulk of their revenue so they have to release yet another faulty system to make their shareholders happy. Blame the Stock Market. If we went with an equilibrium based model that didn't rely on profit so much it might be alot different, but that is pure conjecture. ;P
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I read about that. My concern is this may change. It's still in beta and MS has been known to completely change stuff for RTMs.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I read about that. My concern is this may change. It's still in beta and MS has been known to completely change stuff for RTMs.
It may, MS has been trying to kill OpenGL since Fahrenheit standard board was disbanded. But grudge matches only go so far. MS will not cut their own throat and turn down business. Although OpenGL consumer products are fewer, they occupy the highest end $$ per product, the largest companies, like the US government.... So there is a bit of money on the line. MS did not give in, all they did was shift the responsibility to graphics card manufacturers to supply the capability in their own ICD. Don't get me wrong, MS will not make it "easy" on the ICD builders, Vista will stay "designed" for DirectX/3D, OpenGL will stay active for as long as the ICD builders can stay creative enough to adapt.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I read about that. My concern is this may change. It's still in beta and MS has been known to completely change stuff for RTMs.
It may, MS has been trying to kill OpenGL since Fahrenheit standard board was disbanded. But grudge matches only go so far. MS will not cut their own throat and turn down business. Although OpenGL consumer products are fewer, they occupy the highest end $$ per product, the largest companies, like the US government.... So there is a bit of money on the line. MS did not give in, all they did was shift the responsibility to graphics card manufacturers to supply the capability in their own ICD. Don't get me wrong, MS will not make it "easy" on the ICD builders, Vista will stay "designed" for DirectX/3D, OpenGL will stay active for as long as the ICD builders can stay creative enough to adapt.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
Don't get me wrong, MS will not make it "easy" on the ICD builders, Vista will stay "designed" for DirectX/3D, OpenGL will stay active for as long as the ICD builders can stay creative enough to adapt.
Well my hope is ReactOS, Linux, or something will end up at a point to seriously compete with Windows. Maybe it'll be the Mac now, who knows. All MS does is rehash existing stuff, make it worse, and stick their name on it and make people use it (as much as possible). FAT was a perfect example of this, and there was zero need to even create FAT. I'm tired of MS playing the "do it our way or be damned attitude", and when Windows isn't king anymore then they'll shut up and listen. And I'll be smiling. :-D
Jeremy Falcon
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[or should that be "whom"?] The media have made Vista bashing - more accurately, Vista timetable bashing - almost a reflex action in the same way you say "um" or "er" to fill in gaps of sentences. But I'm wondering: Do you care? Has it affected you materially or strategically? And if you are looking to point the finger who are you pointing it at - the developers, the middle managers, the marketers, or the guys at the top? I was just trying to imagine what it would be like to be a dev working on Vista and be in a position of constantly having to defend your work when it's not even been released yet. I was wondering if this would be demoralising (why bother...) or motivating (this will shut them up!). -- modified at 22:36 Wednesday 16th August, 2006
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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[or should that be "whom"?] The media have made Vista bashing - more accurately, Vista timetable bashing - almost a reflex action in the same way you say "um" or "er" to fill in gaps of sentences. But I'm wondering: Do you care? Has it affected you materially or strategically? And if you are looking to point the finger who are you pointing it at - the developers, the middle managers, the marketers, or the guys at the top? I was just trying to imagine what it would be like to be a dev working on Vista and be in a position of constantly having to defend your work when it's not even been released yet. I was wondering if this would be demoralising (why bother...) or motivating (this will shut them up!). -- modified at 22:36 Wednesday 16th August, 2006
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I spent my career consulting to organizations large and small. It left me convinced that once an organization hits a certain size, and attains a certain age, hardening of the corporate arteries sets in. Corporate chieftains have had the time and money to build up their individual fiefdoms, and at that point, internal politics becomes the name of the game. The only way I've ever seen to break out of this state of corporate rot is to bring in a ruthless outsider with an unrestriced mandate to clean house. After a couple of rounds of high-level firings and massive layoffs, the patient either dies or gets back to the things that made it great in the first place. Who to blame? Nobody--it was inevitable. But it is symptomatic of a larger disease at Microsoft. If you work there, keep your resume up to date.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
why businesses need Vista versus a solid XP service pack 3.
OK, I'll bite. Why do businesses need Vista versus a solid XP service pack 3?? :confused:
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." - Martin Mull
I have no freaking clue, Microsoft has never explained that one. (Which was my point.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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There's just not enough room in this post to express my apathy regarding this entire issue. Vista has neat and groovy new eye candy and some tweaks, but really doesn't bring any significant new functionality to the party. Consequently, they can take their time shipping it as I won't upgrade until a situation requires it or I buy a pre-installed box. My main box and writing laptop still runs w2k. My primary studio box runs XP (at gunpoint, since some of my recording software demanded it). The new laptop has XP only because that's what shipped with it. I have nothing against new versions of Windows, but I just can't get excited about upgrading when each new version does little more than move all the icons to different locations. As for timetable bashing, that's a recurring event everytime the release an OS. Vista is just the latest round. Yawn.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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There's just not enough room in this post to express my apathy regarding this entire issue. Vista has neat and groovy new eye candy and some tweaks, but really doesn't bring any significant new functionality to the party. Consequently, they can take their time shipping it as I won't upgrade until a situation requires it or I buy a pre-installed box. My main box and writing laptop still runs w2k. My primary studio box runs XP (at gunpoint, since some of my recording software demanded it). The new laptop has XP only because that's what shipped with it. I have nothing against new versions of Windows, but I just can't get excited about upgrading when each new version does little more than move all the icons to different locations. As for timetable bashing, that's a recurring event everytime the release an OS. Vista is just the latest round. Yawn.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
I share the same view as you do. The only reason I would want to install VISTA right away would be on my test machine, to test my applications. But, most of our clients are probably going to be on XP for quite some time (as it takes them years to migrate).
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