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Story: Windows Vista: a first look

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A couple of quick comments regarding XP having not 'swept the world'.

Remember the days when we were setting up Windows 98SE on our machines? In my opinion it was an OS that was fine when you could install it and 'get it running stable'. Merely OK in comparison to XP, it was fragile as anything, and took very little for it to fall over, but it was the best of a bad bunch (Windows ME, anyone?).

Windows 2000 is absolutely fine for the corporate world. It's stable and robust. It's Windows XP without fancy graphics, with less multimedia capability (WMP10, etc.), so it's exactly what many administrators and business users want!

As many of us go by the wise saying 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it', we often aren't in a rush to do a full reinstall with a new operating system and drivers, just because a new one came out. Add this to the fact that there are only a small and shrinking proportion of us that are even techies! Most Windows users are ordinary folk that wouldn't have a clue how to install an operating system, or even know what one was. If their computer is working, that's all they need.

XP is a very good, if not very natively secure, OS. But looking at the normal behaviour of the computer using world shows us why there are still many machines running 98SE and 2000.

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