I think it's fair to say at this point that Microsoft has been through the wringer with Windows Vista. Originally envisioned as a revolutionary Windows client upgrade with a next-generation database-backed file system and a video-driven 3-D interface, Vista is now very much an evolutionary upgrade to Windows XP. The whiz-bang file system is gone, replaced by, well, NTFS, and the Jetsons-like UI has been replaced by a pretty UI that will slip back into an ugly XP-like UI at the first sign of a software error.But if Microsoft's corporate customers are to be heard--and they should be, since they constitute one of the largest single markets for the Windows client--then none of this really matters. Tech pundits, industry analysts, and college-aged fanboys with too much time on their hands can debate the relative merits of Vista's Aero Glass UI till they're blue in the face. What really matters is whether the OS has enough beef to get customers to pony up for the costs of upgrades and, if necessary, training and other related expenses.
Source: WindowsITPro
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