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I know that my son who is a computer wizard genius, taught me what I know, built my computer from spare parts....
hates Vista. Insisted that I NOT have it on my new laptop.
Needless to say, our IT manager is on the phone EVERY day to Microsoft trying to find solutions to annoying "issues" that repeatedly pop up and have the potential to cripple our operations if left unchecked.
Microsoft ought to be ashamed of itself for putting such a shoddy OS out on the market and trying to force folks to upgrade to it via their draconian licensing agreements and control of the business software market.
as a IT pro i would almost agree entirely with the article
yet vista’s biggest issue wasnt the OS, it was all the 3rd party software makers and drivers (lack of to be more precise) that are currently the biggest headache. Now you can say Micro~1 was greedy and made software companies jump through hoops to develop for vista. But in reality Vista is harder to code for. dotnet even compounds the problem.
vista will either become good after sp1 like win 98. For those who remember win98 stunk to high heaven and was buggy as heck til sp1. Or will be the next ME if the vista name becomes to tainted to carry.
currently XP pro cost more oem on all the sales sights....hmmmmmm
Based on everything I've read and heard from Vista victims that I work with, I was right to avoid it.
That being said, I think I will leave this thread now before the Mac snobs finish watching their BetaMax movies and log-on to hijack the conversation.
I just got my first super-zoomy computer. For ten years, I’ve been using hand-me-downs and <$400.00 machines.
This one is a monster. 4 gig ram, 500 gig hard drive, quad core processor, the works.
And it came with XP installed.
I insisted on that and, from what I’ve heard, I’m glad I did.
I want to hear more about installing Leopard on a PC.
Has anybody in this forum done this or know somebody who has?
To run your Windoze programs, you can run them in a vmware windows guest on a Leopard host. But for overall productivity, you can use Leopard native.
The underlying OS of Leopard is BSD unix.
And has anybody seen Linux Mint? It’s free, and provides a Vista-like “experience” without the Vista headaches.
I love the Mac, Beautiful hardware, seamless operating system, Instant start up’s, support and training is almost unbelievable.
I will never go back.
Correction: Mac's new OS does NOT work on PC's...but Windoze OSes do work on some Macs. I think the writer got it backwards.
And only a foolish Mac user puts Vista on their machine! Well, ok, only a fool of either stripe puts Vista on anything but their "to avoid" list!
On my Mac Pro tower, I run OS X (10.4.11), Win XP, and Vista.
XP isn't so bad compared to OS X. OS X has more eye candy and is somewhat more intuitive. You have to learn more about the OS to use XP, but once you do that, it's snappy and responsive.
Vista, OTOH, is ponderous and slow (8 core quad processor Intel Xeon, 8GB of RAM). It's like driving a truck instead of a sportscar. And it's always inserting itself into what you're doing, by connecting to the internet, or asking you if you really want to do what you are trying to do, etc, etc.
I would think, for experienced XP folk, that Vista would be a step down.
Just bought a new Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop. Vista installed on it. Took a racehorse and turned it into a nag.
will be installing OpenSuse 10.3 today.
Jack
10.5 is the greatest. My company has been Mac since 1984. We were laughed at by my friends. I got the last snicker.
First off, not everyone needs everything.
Design a basic OS.
Then give people the option to add the extra features they want or need.
Perhaps then the OS will not take up every bit of space in our computers and run slower then the previuos version.
I am not a "power user". I only need a basic OS. It irrates the hell out of me that it can take several minutes from the time I turn on my computer before it is ready for me to start using it (and do get me started on the several minute shut down which requires me to stand around and wait since every so often a file will not close and I have to close it manually.)
We have Leopard and we love it. Macs are so fun and easy to use. Why buy anything else?
(For those who don't remember, Windows XP becomes usable once you reach 512 MB of RAM, and its "sweet spot" is about 1 GB of RAM.)
Vista is the greatest gift Microsoft has ever given Apple.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a steadfast Mac user. I am also proficient in Windows. Every time I have provide tech support for a Windows-using friend or family member who isn’t as tech-savvy as I am, i thank my lucky stars that I don’t have ti del with that crap every day.
Mac OS just works. I’m just saying.
Worst tech product of the century.