Windows Vista Wanted Dead or Alive

Microsoft has been awfully quiet about Windows Vista lately.  We hardly ever hear them talking about the operating system by its name; in fact, they seem to only refer to it as Windows right now.

There were a lot of high expectations and hype for the new Windows Vista back in early 2007 when it was released.

Vista has not lived up to its expectations and it has been hammered by bloggers and of course those now famous Apple ads which belittle the Microsoft operating system.

Most of the companies I deal with are holding off on upgrading to Vista and continue to hold on to XP.

And Manufactures like Dell offer their computers with the option to purchase the Vista license and for a fee they will deliver your computer with a “downgrade” install of Windows XP.

This allows you to easily upgrade to Vista with the same license whenever you feel you are ready.

I purchased a Dell Ispiron1420 laptop several months ago and it came with the Vista operating system installed and I had quite a few problems in the beginning including the blue screen of death.

That is to say it crashed frequently.

However, I have found the operating system to be quite stable once I reinstalled the operating system and upgraded it from Vista Business to the Vista Ultimate and then installed service pack 1.

Of course there are still some of the annoyances with the extra security features that you have to deal with, but overall I have very few complaints.

But because Vista has now gained such a bad reputation, Microsoft is pushing forward with its new OS Windows 7.

I have found it interesting however that they're not killing off Vista just yet. They're already releasing Vista service pack 2 to beta testers.

The word is out that the new Window 7 will be ready sometime in October of 2009, but if it's like previous Microsoft Windows releases I'm sure that date will be delayed into some time in 2010.