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Vista blows!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I was a happy camper with Windows XP. Really, I was. Oh sure, I wanted a Mac, but with the price tag on that baby ... Anyway, so I settled for a PC, running on XP.

And then came Vista. Like almost everyone else, I bought into the hype. Even attended a launch event where I salivated over everything they said Vista could do. So, when I finally got around to upgrading my hardware, naturally, I went with Vista.

Ready (OMG! Those gorgeous graphics!!!) ...

STEADY (OMFG! My productivity will effing triple!!!) ...

GO!!!!

pfft.

Right. Vista brought me to a crashing halt. WTF?! Nearly everything I did with my new toy prompted a dialogue box. Are you sure you want to do this? Who are you and are you authorized to make this change? No no no, you can't do that!

Well, hell. If I had wanted a computer to talk back to me as much as Vista does, I would've sprung for HAL.

So, after a thoroughly inconvenient downgrade to XP - not to mention at least three days of hunting down all the old drivers and customizations I needed - I got re-acquainted with productivity. For awhile, I suffered in silence. I was embarrassed. I felt - and still do - that I had been taken for a ride with my eyes wide-open. I jumped onto the Vista bandwagon like some tech newbie and paid the price for it. Yes I did.

Fortunately for my self-esteem, I ran across this article that says: " Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests -- regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer. In fact, XP proved to be roughly twice as fast as Vista in most of the tests."
No kidding.

UNfortunately, I also read somewhere that Microsoft was pushing Vista hard and planned to phase out XP. So, while I can stay loyal to XP, I know that MS is soon going to drop all internal support for the thing. No more updates and shit. 4-5 years tops, I suppose even XP is gonna go the way of the sabre-toothed tiger. But that's exactly my gripe. Couldn't MS have rolled out a mature product? One that didn't have all those compatibility issues? One that didn't need service packs to do what the damned thing should have been able to do in the first place?

A friend told me it was all about money. YA THINK? Of course its about money, but how about customer satisfaction, man? I really think consumers like us ought to be more responsible. I mean, these megacorps wouldn't be making shoddy product if we refused to buy 'em, right? If the buying stops, the hoodwinking can stop too.

Well, maybe. After all, MS has what? like 90% of the market? How am I gonna shake that beast?

...

So I suppose I'll just go on living my otaku life in quiet desperation, eh? Until XP finally joins the vacuum tube in tech-xtinction.

technorati tags: tech, microsoft, vista, xp, geekiness

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - Vista

Posted by BrianB

You could've blogged about it before you took the jump or posted a request in, say, MLQ3's blog. Vista is crap, all you really needed was Google it. I just bough a cheap macbook myself (someone was selling it at a bargain because he found out Leopard was coming and new hardware).

It's a good move to downgrade. You would've wasted a lot of valuable time trying to be a Vista hero. You needed at least 2GB of RAM for Vista Premium, even with a Core2Duo chip. BTW, don't understand how you can say MacBooks are pricey. They are one of the cheapest laptops here in the Philippines and they have a service center.

Anyway, I recommend the Asus Eee PC as a backup laptop. It's very portable (2lbs), though the screen is only 7 inches and it's not very powerful, but blogging should be very doable i it. 18k.

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Posted by BrianB

BTW, XP will start going extinct in 2014. That's when Microsoft ceases supporting it.

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Posted by cvjugo

I've worked in an IT Company for as long as you've been alive. Seeing how these hardware and software products go through predictable lifecycles, i personally made the decision to use the previous generation until the early adopters (like you in the above case) have experienced most of the bugs. Alternatively, my geekier counterparts have gone Linux while others, of course, swear by the Mac.

BTW, i'd like to invite you (and your readers) to take the Political Compass Quiz at http://www.politicalcompass.org/ . If you publish your results, i'll collate them at my blog.

Edited by cvjugo on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 22:41

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Posted by smoke

brianb:just terribly excited i guess. totally forgot that whole bit about looking both ways before crossing the street.

cvj:you're welcome, uncle. i enjoyed playing guinea piggie for you :D LOL. I'll take that test.

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