{"id":245,"date":"2006-06-03T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2006\/06\/03\/newsletter-issue-340-preview-the-coming-windows-vista-train-wreck\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:20:27","slug":"newsletter-issue-340-preview-the-coming-windows-vista-train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2006\/06\/newsletter-issue-340-preview-the-coming-windows-vista-train-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #340 Preview: The Coming Windows Vista Train Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is easy for Mac users to declare anything that emerges from the software mines at Microsoft to be junk, a poor imitation of the Mac OS. This is a knee-jerk reaction, to be sure, although a lot of it seems to be based on fact. At the same time, the largest software developer has thousands and thousands of talented, dedicated people, and many are working overtime to make Windows Vista as good as possible.<\/p>\n<p>So what has gone wrong? It isn&#8217;t the fact that Vista is woefully late or that some highly-touted features, such as the new file system, have been shed along the way. If you recall the history of Mac OS X, in fact, you&#8217;ll see that it debuted at least a couple of years after it was promised, although Apple has made up for that with timely upgrades, at least so far.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s bad management, or the consequences of committee-based design, doesn&#8217;t matter. If you look over many of the reports emerging so far about the widely-released Beta 2 version of Vista, you can see where there may indeed be a train wreck in the making, a complex, bloated operating system with huge resource requirements and evidence of some severely wrong-headed design decisions. 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