Service Pack 1 is coming. If you aren’t hiding under the bed (a suitable spot), and are one of those geeks who has actually been saying for more than a year that they “are waiting until SP1 is out before they try Vista,” your wait is nearly over.
Personally, I couldn’t care less that Microsoft’s biggest flop since Windows ME is about to break a bunch of peoples machines even further. Its as if Hostess has announced an update to the Twinkie — Only people with poor taste in food will care. Vista is still years away from possibly being as good as XP or Ubuntu are right now for 90% of computer users out there. I’m waiting for 2012 before I start using Vista. By then the bugs may be out, and the design flaws will be hacked around by computer programmers who aren’t enslaved to Big Media. And by then my copy of XP will be as obsolete as Windows 98 is today. (Incidentally I used a Windows 98 SE laptop to fix up my Data Link watch just the other week though. XP couldn’t do it.)
UPDATE: See this Vista video for a laugh.
Wandering Coyote | 17-Mar-08 at 6:11 pm | Permalink
Uh…Thanks for the warning…
I’ve run Vista for a year now. I’ve had very few issues with it.
Saskboy | 17-Mar-08 at 6:22 pm | Permalink
Yeah, but is one of those issues ’severe suckage’?
Wandering Coyote | 17-Mar-08 at 7:39 pm | Permalink
Nope. If it were, I’d have said so! Mind you, I’m used to Macs.
Red Tory | 17-Mar-08 at 9:17 pm | Permalink
Feh. I worked with it for a bit on one of my kid’s computers when my box was in the shop. Seemed a tad sluggish, but otherwise okay. There was certainly no compelling reason to “upgrade” from semi-reliable XP that I could see. Although I suspect a good deal of the code has already been smuggled into my system via IE7 and various auto-updates. Such are the ways of Microsoft…
Tim | 19-Mar-08 at 7:41 am | Permalink
You wacky pc users!
I still run xp on the work laptop. Seems fairly stable, only crashes a couple times a week! There are no plans from the company to upgrade to Vista in this decade.
The Mac OS in my Macbook has never given me any troubles. I feel obliged to mention that I never run virus protection, ever. And I never bother to look for security or other updates. I just happily wander about the internet, ignoring all the mal ware that targets all you pc users. Ok, done with being smug now :)
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy » Blog Archive » Vista floundering, XP Home extended, Microsoft’s future being questioned | 14-Apr-08 at 1:36 pm | Permalink
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