The requirements make it bad for a lot of people. I wanted a cheap laptop with a small screen, but the only decently-priced ones start at about 15" because scaling down the components needed to run vista costs much more, to the extent where the models that suited my purpose were either a OSless laptop or a macbook for £600, which is what I settled with.
Several versions could have been a good idea, they need a streamlined edition though for office computers that only see the likes of, well, office, and the general poor like me.
But I see what you mean, Vista's not bad, it's certainly an improvement on Vista, but it becomes de facto next June without being suitable for everybody. And windows needs to be the OS that works on everything.
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The requirements make it bad for a lot of people. I wanted a cheap laptop with a small screen, but the only decently-priced ones start at about 15" because scaling down the components needed to run vista costs much more, to the extent where the models that suited my purpose were either a OSless laptop or a macbook for £600, which is what I settled with.
Several versions could have been a good idea, they need a streamlined edition though for office computers that only see the likes of, well, office, and the general poor like me.
But I see what you mean, Vista's not bad, it's certainly an improvement on Vista, but it becomes de facto next June without being suitable for everybody. And windows needs to be the OS that works on everything.