New Microsoft Operating System Windows Vista Flops

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5 years and 9 billion dollars in the making, Microsoft's new operating system 'Vista' fails to grab user interest. Worries concerning it's high system requirements and possible incompatibilities with existing software leaves businesses and users with no real incentive to upgrade.

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When windows 95 and XP hit the shelves, the geeks were excited, eager to get their hands on the next big thing. The existing platforms had many bugs and did not support the latest technology, which was still developing at a rapid rate. The later operating sytems like XP were designed for security, compaitibility with wide ranges of technologies and made to be updatable as required.

Vista, Microsofts latest offering, seems to have little to offer over the current mainstream operating system XP. After reading a few articles and press releases, it seems to me the biggest advantage Microsoft claims will be realized by upgrading will be increased security. With a better ability to encrypt the contents of harddrives and some other, more obsure security features like seaching out and attacking pirated software, Vista is supposed to help keep your data safe. Also, Vista apparently offers better support for multiple processors with mulitple cores.

However, while Microsoft is offering better security, it seems to be asking for a cut in performance for the upgrade. The high system requirements mean that Vista will only run on the latest machines - and that means that those upgrading on less than latest machines will get slower performance.

Plus there are concerns that some existing software applications and setups won't run on the new operating system, or that there will be incompatibility bugs caused by the upgrade at the very least. Those incompatibilities and bugs mean more time configuring your new setup, and possibly more money for the purchasing of newer, Vista ready software.

Apparently Microsoft thinks users are demanding better security, at any cost. As an avid computer user myself, security is important, but continued, seemless, and top notch performance is what I really want.