Comments on: 60 Million Strong for Windows Vista

By: 98 Percent Business Potential in Europe for Windows Vista

98 Percent Business Potential in Europe for Windows Vista — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:28:14 +0000

[...] of businesses moving to Windows Vista may be small; but given that Microsoft has already sold 60 million licenses ages ago, their 1 billion license target still remains [...]

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:52:47 +0000

Me — I’ll check on those details you provided. Thanks for letting us know.

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:47:07 +0000

luke neave — What’s your hardware specs.

By: » 60 Million Copies Of Windows Vista Shipped » InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:01:04 +0000

[...] financial analysts last week that it has already shipped over 60 million copies of Windows Vista, in addition to 42 million corporate licenses of the operating system. More than 20 million were sold in the first month, making about 40 million [...]

By: Me

Me — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:05:11 +0000

My frustration level with Vista grows daily, usually over simple things that worked in earlier versions of Windows. I’m always amazed at a new circuitous path to a feature and then see the same old Windows dialog box. This is improvement?

File search is the most recent frustration. I cannot find some files without buying a $40 3rd-party search tool. And I paid more for the Ultimate Vista? You’ve optimized the search, but it doesn’t always work. Everything is not indexed, but you pretend it is. How many casual users don’t have a clue that search may not find some files that really exist? But it’s fast now. Speed is more important than a correct answer for Microsoft.

Searching for E-mails in Outlook 2007 has similar hazards, and it’s hard to find the old search dialog box that still always works.

And the new Office user interface has many negatives, especially if you knew how to use older versions. For example, who thought of “Insert Quick Parts” in Word as a step in the path to Insert Fields? Thanks for this obscurity. I’m still not sure what a “Quick Part” is, but I must select it so I can insert a field. I can almost remember how to Insert Fields now after a few hours of Google searches. Or, at least I’m finding the solution faster using Google now.

And thanks for the obscurity of sending E-mail to others they cannot read. With Outlook 2007 it took me four E-mails to get an attachment sent to mom recently — and many Google searches in-between because of the obscure Micorosoft winmail.dat feature (I guess it’s not new, but it wasn’t fixed either). It’s a great feature for Microsoft to randomly send a winmail.dat file instead of the real attachments. This forces septuagenarian mom to upgrade her software – or forces me to go through my address book one-by-one to find the few that somehow have “Send using Outlook Rich Text Format”. It’s great to send friends and family E-mail with attachments they cannot read because of obscure Microsoft rules. It’s even better when this happens randomly.

So as one of the 60 million, thanks for all the new frustrations and the few ways to get help without paying.

By: luke neave

luke neave — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:54:15 +0000

I particularly enjoy watching the ring go round and round while I carry out a simple task like opening and closing or minimising a web page with Windows Vista!!!

Carrying out the same tasks on Vista as I carried out on Windows XP a number of times the screen has froze.

When I can carry out simple tasks without it taking ages to complete, maybe I will be happy with it.