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Sleeper Service Updated - 27th Oct 2008

...was lambasted because of it's somewhat dodgy supporting evidence - in particular where you accused Vista of being slow in comparison to XP by quoting a CNET article released in 2007 when SP1 was pre-Beta - I'm going to take this one with a pinch of salt too.

But it's a slow day so what the hell..

"One of the worst qualities of Windows Vista is that it is almost always slower than its predecessor Windows XP when running on the same hardware."

Blatantly untrue. Here's an article where the journalist actually did some research.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2328909,00.asp

Also, here's the benchmarks proving it:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302500,00.asp

So, once again, you're shown to be at best off the pace in terms of tech reporting or at worst someone with an agenda. I'll leave it up to your readership to determine which of the two applies.

"One of the things that has killed Vista is that Microsoft spent so much effort trying making it more secure with User Access Control (UAC) that it broke a lot of software in the process."

Again untrue. This was largely due to incompatible drivers, something that hasn't been an issue for over six months. If UAC is an issue then it can be switched off although I wouldn't recommend this. I'd also point out that every change of OS has compatibility problems - this was certaily the case when we switched from NT to XP on our corporate platform.

"3. Undercut OS X on price"

Since you can't install OSX on anything other than Apple hardware they do. As such your comments about the netbook market are irrelevant because Apple don't operate in that space.

"There were primarily two editions of Windows XP: Home and Professional. With Windows Vista, that doubled to four primary editions: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate. It?s time to simplify and go back to just one version of Windows with one price."

I largely agree with this one. Windows 7 should be modular with the option to install additional features as required on top of a core product.

That said, I'm unaware of anyone whose actually been confused by Vista's variants.

"1. Make it the last shrink-wrapped OS"

I agree with this.

So some good points and some bad. A step above the last article but you need to drop the whole 'Vista failed' thing especially when your statements aren't backed up by fact.