Vista Is Just Fine
Saturday, October 6th, 2007While listening to the latest TWiT, it was brought to my attention that the world seems to hate Windows Vista. That is not just coming from technology personnalities like Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton. A few weeks ago, I heard a friend from work saying she is shopping for a laptop but doesn’t want to have Vista on it. Again, on a totally different occasion, someone saw my Vista laptop and asked me if Vista was a “shitty” as everyone says it is. A recent blog post written by Don Reisinger threw me off when the writer claims that “Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself“.
The idea of have Microsoft withdraw an operating system that comes on a wide number of new PCs is utterly stupid! I’ve been using Vista for months now and I can’t complain about it, of course there are minor performance issue (that is if you’re running XP hardware). The price for upgrade is steep, especially for the Ultimate version. But that is no reason to stop innovation, the old formula of if it works why change it can’t always work. Do you really want XP to still be there in 2010? When you are pushing the technology forward you spur up innovation, programmers have to work with new structures and all. More then ever there are nice alternatives (Linux and Mac OS) and now is the perfect time for Windows to show they too can do something different and try to make the best of it.
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