The biggest problem with Vista is the one that Microsoft can least fix - driver support.
Even after all this time, there's still a lot of (even brand new) hardware I own that doesn't support Windows Vista.
Maybe Microsoft could bribe (or offer "incentives") to manufacturers to release Vista drivers for all of their hardware less than 3 years old. And make sure the drivers actually work properly.
Other than that, I think the "Ultimate" edition should actually be the only version on sale. Price it at the same as Home Premium and then at install time give the option of installing a "basic", "regular" or "expert" version of the OS.
It would save a lot of shelf space and confuse consumers less.
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Rich @ Aug 20th 2007 6:42AM
The biggest problem with Vista is the one that Microsoft can least fix - driver support.
Even after all this time, there's still a lot of (even brand new) hardware I own that doesn't support Windows Vista.
Maybe Microsoft could bribe (or offer "incentives") to manufacturers to release Vista drivers for all of their hardware less than 3 years old. And make sure the drivers actually work properly.
Other than that, I think the "Ultimate" edition should actually be the only version on sale. Price it at the same as Home Premium and then at install time give the option of installing a "basic", "regular" or "expert" version of the OS.
It would save a lot of shelf space and confuse consumers less.