“Windows Vista … hands down better than Windows XP”

Windows Vista 1 Minute

Tim Coyle has an interview with Charlie Owen of Microsoft’s Media Center team. I thought this part was interesting:

I know you probably can’t say much about Longhorn, but what are you hoping will be in Longhorn?

You’re right — I can’t talk about Windows Vista much. I will say I have been using it on a daily basis as my main workhorse machine already for a while now and it’s hands down better than Windows XP. That bodes well for consumers and developers, especially considering we just recently hit the beta 1 milestone.


I’ve now got Windows Vista running on two machines, including a Tablet PC. It’s very stable, and the new shell is growing on me.

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  1. Isn’t the expectation for Vista to be better than XP? If the OS was like XP, why bother? right? If the OS was worst than XP, why bother?

    Wasn’t Windows 98 better than 95? Isn’t the latest OS for the mac better than the previous.

    I just think that the expectation is better than the previous; otherwise, we end up with Windows ME.

    Chuck

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