Last week the CEO of Twinfield, Andre Kwakernaat, was over with me visiting various practices and potential partners. He was showing off his new, healthily configured Dell Latitude D520 with Vista Business and Office 2007. The interface looked very slick - almost as good as a Mac. The performance in terms of documents loading or start up seemed to be very quick - just like a Mac - and my first impressions of the new Office 2007 interface were positive. Strangely, OneNote 2007 has seems to have the old 2003 style interface - it’s the only one of the new family I’m using myself, and it looks just the same on Vista.
However, I’ve just heard from Jason Busch, normally very pro Microsoft, and he’s at the end of his tether. He says:
“Having spent approximately 25 of my last 40 waking hours trying to get Vista and Office 2007 to perform at the level of my previous operating system and desktop environment, I can honestly say that it’s an absolute travesty that Microsoft would have released such a half-baked product, having put billions into its development. In fact, my friends, colleagues and clients will probably attest to my slower than average response rates via email recently (I simply have not had the patience or the time to write emails while the new composer catches up with my typing). “
Over at Tom Raftery’s place, he suggests the real reason why Vista isn’t selling and quotes Chris Pirillo, who says:
“I’m “upgrading” from Windows Vista to Windows XP.I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best.”
I’m quite pleased I’ve hung back fom the upgrade. This does not look too healthy for Microsoft’s sales push on Vista.
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