The Vista OS has not been good for Microsoft. Pushed out quickly into the supply chain, new Vista users found a very different GUI, old reliable programs that would no longer run, digital music they had purchased would no longer play due to DRM issues, and a new version of Office that required a fair amount of effort to find old familiar tasks.
Then there was the brutal ad campaign from Apple, including the one with my old High School classmate, Mary Chris Wall.
Microsoft has been working hard on a replacement OS, called Windows 7. The Windows 7 team learned from the mistakes of Vista, and trimmed a lot of useless code, making it much more efficent. In addition, they have worked to expand their driver coverage, which was severly lacking when Vista was released.
Now the rumor is that Microsoft will stop selling Vista once Windows 7 is released. It seems that Microsoft would like to forget about Vista, and hide in the same hole that they dropped the Windows Millennium OS in.
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