One Year Later…

One year ago yesterday, Microsoft released it’s latest operating system: Windows Vista, and I think it’s safe to say that it didn’t do much for personal computing. Microsoft spent years in development of Vista only to see it’s release full of widespread criticism and as a user of Windows Vista, I can say that the criticism is well deserved.
When Microsoft released Windows 3.0 and Windows 95, they revolutionised the computing industry. But as time progressed, their progress slowed down dramatically-remember Windows ME? I mean, could that have been any worse? Well that’s what Vista is to us today. Full of ridiculous, failed security measures like User Account Control that brings up a message any time you want to launch a program with no way to configure it, all the way to the still infamous Blue Screen of Death.
(And on a side, I just wanna add, how have they not fixed that yet!? It’s been like a decade!)
Microsoft says that they’ve shipped twice as many copies of Windows Vista than they did Windows XP at the time of its release, but that’s not anything to brag about. It’s not like Windows XP was this crazy revolutionary software that changed the way we look at computers today. I think Linux did that.
Vista is all eye candy. Sure they may have added some stuff, they may have made things easier to set up and browse to, and they may have even added some new useful features, but overall, it still sucks.
If you have Windows XP, do not switch over quite yet. I did and now I’m full of regret. Everything looks great-but that’s about it. It’s even less stable than XP was (and we still had to restart XP every few days just to get it going again). We’ll see if Service Pack 1 does anything for the OS but looking at the past updates, it’s not going to bring about the change that it needs.

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