Saturday, 20 September 2014

Failure of Microsoft Office : Windows Vista

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, AmerikaSerikat which develops, makes, members licenses, and supports a variety of related products and services with a computer. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on 4 April 1975.

Microsoft is the largest software maker in the world by revenue. Microsoft is also one of the most valuable companies in the world. In 2012, Microsoft is the market pendominasi PC operating systems and office software market (with Microsoft Office).
The company also produces a series of software for desktops and servers, and is active in a number of areas such as Internet search (Bing), the video game industry (consoles Xbox and Xbox 360), digital services market (MSN), and mobile phones (Windows Phone OS) . In June 2012, Microsoft announced that they will enter the PC vendor market for the first time with the launch of Microsoft's tablet computer.

Windows remove the Windows Vista which is a continuation or development of Windows XP, Windows Vista is a graphical operating system from Microsoft that is used on a personal computer (PC), both for home and business users, the laptop computer, or media center.

Before it was announced with the name of Windows Vista on July 22, 2005, the operating system is better known by the code name Longhorn (derived from the name of the Longhorn Saloon, a famous bar in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada).

Microsoft launches Windows Vista on 8 November 2006 for business users, and January 30, 2007 for home users. Thus, the launch of Windows Vista is more than five years since the release of Windows XP on October 25, 2001.
 
Operating System released by Microsoft the world's largest IT companies. Contrary to fame, this product is said to many observers is one of the operating system failed. Can be likened to that "Vista is a broken rail, but it should not".

But that does not mean that many people who would use Vista, or even buy Vista. This means that Vista is not a successful operating system, like its predecessor, Windows XP, for example, which makes the sale of the Personal Computer (PC) rose sharply.

Microsoft is proud to say that Vista licenses have been sold until January 2008 approximately 70 million licenses. However, the sale of the license is relatively small, since most PCs currently sold along with the operating system, especially Vista. This means that Vista is not an option buyer, but the choice is given to the buyer.

According to Joe Wilcox, in his article on the website MicrosoftWatch.com Broken Windows, there are five reasons why Vista is said to fail by its product, namely:

     Vista displays a lot of complexity compared to its predecessor Windows XP.
     Its predecessor is a pretty good operating system.
     Microsoft has the wrong priorities.
     Vista is sold before it is ready to be marketed.
     There is no alignment between Vista and developers (OEM).

Windows Vista is more complicated compared to Windows XP. Windows Explorer or the Windows file manager is very difficult to use. Users can not type in the directory path or directly into the address bar. Each user will be using a program that is not listed, Windows Vista will ask for confirmation to darken the screen.

In addition, to assess the contents of a drive or folder it takes many minutes even though Windows XP is able to do it in less than half a second. Windows Vista users will feel himself as the most ignorant people who never used a computer.

Windows Vista requires a resource that can be said very much and wasteful. The operating system uses too many resources such as hard disk, processor, and RAM before the application using it. Thus, on a computer with the minimum resource, the user can hardly use the application outside of the operating system.

Microsoft seem only concerned with corporate profits than customer satisfaction. Microsoft also impressed fooling users by accentuating the look beautiful skin that makes people fascinated. Although still inferior to Linux and Mac, Vista quite interested teens and laymen. Advanced users will choose the Windows XP although it must be said up because Windows XP is more stable than Windows Vista.

In addition, there is mismatch between the developer (OEMs) and Microsoft. Priority between the two do not have a match so wounding experience of Vista. For example, the laptop is assessed by Vista only 3.0. Other when the user is using a computer for gaming, the computer was shut down many of the features of Vista to increase the in-game experience. This happens because Vista is not compatible with many hardware particularly Graphics Chips available on computers, especially in the Notebook.

This discrepancy reveals that Vista is not enough support for hardware and software when it was launched. It is true that Vista encourages the development of computer architectures, but these changes cause problems for Software Developers and Hardware Manufacturers. Even now there is no hardware that is able to meet "hunger" inflicted Vista, especially on memory.

CONCLUSION

The conclusion is what made ​​Microsoft's Vista Operating System is very new and using the imaginary technology to provide compatibility to existing hardware and software. Unpreparedness to Windows Vista customers who require large memory also makes it less efficient Windows Vista (product failure) because it makes the technology that runs a weight.

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