Acer boss: entire industry disappointed by Vista
Windows Vista has been slammed by the president of PC manufacturer Acer, Gianfranco Lanci (pictured), who said Microsoft’s new operating system is a massive disappointment, having failed to boost PC sales.
“The entire industry is disappointed by Windows Vista,” Lanci told the Financial Times Deutschland.
“I do not really think that anyone buys a new PC because of Vista,” he said.
He also said the situation won’t improve for at least another six months, because Vista wasn’t mature when it was released.
“Stability really is a problem,” he explained.
Lanci’s tirade was backed up by Gartner analysts Ranjit Atwal, who said that Vista “is not a revolution” and is not compelling for home and mid-range users.
Lanci’s stinging attack comes just days after Microsoft proudly announced that it had sold 60 million copies of Vista — though that figure includes copies shipped to OEMs, copies sitting on machines that have not yet been sold, as well as copies that consumers have actually bought and installed.
Obviously Lanci was expecting Vista to set the world on fire, though in this day and age, that’s quite an unrealistic expectation. For all its faults Windows XP works. When you’ve got something that works reasonably well, it’s very hard to come up with something that is an order of magnitude better. And that’s what it would take for a new operating system to excite the masses into buying new computers.
The hardware industry needs to realize that with a mature product line like Windows all you’re going to get from now are incremental improvements, not paradigm shifts. And if by some chance there is a paradigm shift, I’m willing to bet that it won’t come from Microsoft.
It’s time for the hardware industry to understand that the good old days of new operating system equals hardware sales is well and truly over.
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July 30th, 2007
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July 31st, 2007
Trust me vista is a huge disappointment for me. I bought a new HP computer and it came preloaded with vista and when i decided to switch back to xp hp told me they would not provide the drivers for anything but vista.
April 18th, 2008
Operating systems like Windows are mature and do everything now that I can think that anyone might want. If Windows is so lacking, why doesn’t this joker at Acer tell us all in exactly which way. I’m sure Mircrosoft would be interested. I’m not holding my breath waiting for this blowhard to come forward to inform us.