Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I’m not at all surprised to hear that “experts” are confirming what I’ve been saying about Vista since day 1. It’s a flop, it’s the Windows ME of the business computing world. Everyone managing a business computing network would prefer to stay with XP, but Microsoft isn’t going to let them for much longer. A revolution is coming, and it’s not a revolution of new software for the PC either. It will be businesses and consumers fighting to keep support for XP, and thus millions of perfectly capable Pentium III and IV computers.

In other computer news, I’ve added the new Ubuntu version countdown to my blog’s sidebar. It’s out in just 10 days, available free for download, or on CD using ShipIt.

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.