In the previous year at Acer‘s Global Press Conference, Acer President and Chief Executive Officer Gianfranco Lanci caused a stir by stating that the industry was 'disappointed' with Windows Vista . It was a contentious announcement, but one with which, at least privately, many other CEOs within the Microsoft ecosystem seemingly agreed. Gianfranco Lanci said that he thinks, when Vista was launched, it wasn’t 100 percent ready and wasn’t very stable. It was a sore point from their attitude, even though Vista is currently quite stable, it’s almost done. Nevertheless there was not any reference to the possibility of adding Vista to their net book, the Acer Aspire One.
Andy Kretzer, director of sales and marketing at Bold Data Technology, a Fremont, Calif.-based system builder, said that when it comes to operating system readiness, half-measures merely aren't satisfactory. He added that when he buys a meal at a restaurant and it emerges 'almost done' he sends it back. In case it happens again, he stops going to that restaurant. He concluded that software companies and Microsoft particularly have been escaping from this for far too long.
President of Charlotte Tech Care Team, a Microsoft partner in Charlotte, N.C., Mark Crall said that the main problem isn't that Vista was launched too early, but that the industry wasn't ready for it, with regards to updating hardware drivers. He added that both users and hardware manufacturers were comfortable and satisfied with XP SP2. Without pre-release requirements from users, he suspects the manufacturers did not have much motivation to invest in preparing updated drivers for hardware compatibility, which was and possibly is, the number one overthrow for users after any new operating system release.
Daniel Duffy, Chief Executive Officer of Valley Network Solutions, a Microsoft Gold partner in Fresno, Calif.
, agrees that Vista shouldn't have delivered until the issues that SP1 fixed had been addressed. Though a bigger issue, in Duffy's sight, is incapability of Vista to manage searches on non-indexed files. Duffy said that for non-technical users, it might seem impossible to fulfill a simple file search. And for experienced users, it's simply a misery to use because they have to wait for the search to 'fail,' then stop the advanced search and select non-indexed items. Duffy concluded that something as essential as file search, and as highly hyped as this new functionality, should work on day one, without any additional attempt.
The net book manufacturers, like HP with their 2133 Mini-Note, have taken the bold jump of adding Vista as an operating system option, nevertheless Acer is still adhering to Windows XP Home and Linux, in spite of the chance of upgrading the standard 512MB RAM to a more Vista-ready 1GB. When you compare the specifications of the two net books you will find that they're not wholly different from one another.
Since its release in early 2007, Vista has faced extensive ridicule worldwide. And it appears that even Acer is not impervious to poking fun at its incapabilities to execute.
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