bill - 1:35 am on Feb 21, 2007 (gmt 0)

I don't think this article ranks too high on the scathing scale, but it's certainly not painting Vista in the warm rosy glow of MS marketing-speak. Some of the complaints come across as growing-pains issues. There were similar complaints with XP renaming and moving some functions around. Given a bit of experience with the OS I would expect many of these issues to fade. Also device drivers fall into this category as well. The hardware makers will catch up soon enough. Part of what I read here is early-adopters syndrome.

Other issues are more serious, like pricing. A lot of the coolest features seem to be reserved for the most expensive versions. I don't think many will be thrilled with the virtualization policy either. (That alone is a good excuse to play with *nix, at least virtually.)

I wish they would have backed up their link-bait opening item, Home Basically-There's-No-Reason-to-Buy-This. Their criticism about why not to buy the Home version isn't too well backed up. OK, it's slow. Slower than what? On what systems and hardware? I think they could have made more impact by fleshing that out a bit.