Steve Ballmer , Microsoft.

mr moose · August 13, 2018

22 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

I was just browsing youtube ..

In the comment section

There's your problem right there. Even here on a tech forum where the more knowledgeable are supposed to congregate people are horrendously wrong.

Every company has a list of failures, not necessarily tied to any one CEO. Also Vista was fine, it's just that OEM's pushed it out on lower tier hardware against the minimum spec recommendations.

LAwLz · August 13, 2018

41 minutes ago, mr moose said:

Every company has a list of failures, not necessarily tied to any one CEO. Also Vista was fine, it's just that OEM's pushed it out on lower tier hardware against the minimum spec recommendations.

While most problems were related to hardware, drivers and people just not being used to the large changes, Vista had some glaring issues which were fixed with 7.

The big one being UAC, since Windows at the time (even Vista) was clearly not designed for it, and as a result pretty much everything required admin privileges. It took quite a bit of changes to reduce the number of services and functions which required admin privilege, and they also reworked UAC to be more granular.

I wouldn't say Vista was fine. Most of the reasons why it wasn't were out of Microsoft control (maybe if they had offered more help to OEMs?) but some of them were definitely Microsoft's.