I've bashed Vista into the ground. Anybody who followed my posts over at UFOShip could tell you that. I took pleasure in pointing out how slow, unstable, bloated and cumbersome Microsoft's flagship operating system was. See the following as evidence:
http://ufoship.com/comment.php?comment.news.100I'm eating my words today.
Anybody who knows
anything about computers could tell you that when Microsoft releases a new operating system, you should wait a MINIMUM of one year to install it on your machines. The poor slobs who DO install a new operating system immediately after its release are going to be used as guinea pigs in the course of Microsoft's efforts to patch and update their new creation. I personally don't enjoy being a guinea pig, and I'm thinking you probably don't either... and so it was that i waited OVER a year to install and/or use Vista for the first time. I didn't wait long enough.
My primary machine, an Asus F8SP, is designed for Vista but thankfully, Asus is the world's greatest computer company and they take the time to release XP drivers for their new machines along with the standard Vista drivers. I "downgraded" to XP and all was well... for the most part, that is. I was having problems with some of the system function buttons like WIFI on/off, bluetooth on/off, etc.. The drivers behind these buttons, for whatever reason, just WERE NOT working well in an XP environment. I suffered through it since doing so enabled me to escape the clutches of Vista. Hell, in order to make sure I could toggle off/on my WIFI, I was disabling/enabling the wireless card in Device Manager. Heh, yeah, I was eager to stay with XP at any inconvenience.
I finally grew tired of this song and dance about 2 months ago and decided to try Vista again. I figured after about 9 or 10 more months, Vista SURELY must have made some strides in that time. My instincts were right. Vista, it pains me to say, is now what could be called "stable." It's far snappier than I recall it being in the past. It now boots more quickly than XP on the same system. Most importantly, IT RUNS EVERY APPLICATION I HAVE THROWN AT IT. That's right. The chief complaint against Vista since its debut has been the lack of software compatibility. This issue, for me at least, has been resolved. I run a vast array of applications, some open source and some not. Everything is fine now.
When I came back to Vista, there were about a zillion new updates beyond those MS released during my first Vista experience. They appear to have zapped my woes in the course of these updates, and the patches/fixes continue. As a matter of fact, Vista is on the brink of Service Pack 2. That's right! Take a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dca54ecc-362a-4b4d-b62b-22780e839a7e&displaylang=en As you might recall, XP suffered the same disastrous roll-out when it was released in 2001. It wasn't until Service Pack 2 that XP began to evolve into the stable, tested operating system it is today. I expect in about a year, Vista will be an operating system
all MS users can feel just fine with, and XP will sadly begin to fade away as a distant memory in a fashion reminiscent of windows 2000.
By the way, I'd like to take this opportunity to say the following: If you're a home user who just wants to check email, browse web pages, etc., use Ubuntu. It's free, stable, safe and simple. Don't bother yourself with the unnecessary expense of buying a Mac. They're overpriced, they support relatively little software, they're the product of a viciously proprietary and controlling company that makes Microsoft look lovable and fuzzy, and they are horrid for gaming. Unless you're editing video or audio, the Mac is an overpriced piece of crap. Need proof? Take a look at this oldie but goodie from UFOShip:
http://ufoship.com/comment.php?comment.news.105
Topic: I'm beginning to change my tune on Windows Vista. (Read 4020 times)
