Windows Vista
There has been a lot of discussion over at SFN recently about the relative advantages and disadvantages of Windows Vista, and whether we should all upgrade when it’s been released. A lot of the Microsoft fanboys are saying “yeah, this is a truly amazing release!” so I decided to install RC1 the other week to see precisely what all of the hype is about.
Truly, the entire experience annoyed me immensely. Everything, from the complete failure to design an interface as beautiful as OS X, to the annoying popup windows that say “Are you sure you want to move the cursor? You might get RSI!!!” got on my nerves in the most extreme fashion. To be charging am immense $300 for such utter, utter tripe is completely beyond me.
Personally, I’m holding out until the end of the academic year, when I should hopefully be able to afford to finally buy myself a Mac Pro. When I look at the enormous, seamless leap that Apple made 6 years ago from the transition from OS 9 to X, and the complete backwards step that Vista has made from XP, it’s amazing that Microsoft are even able to make any sort of software at all these days.
Anyway, on another note, I prepared some more photos for my photoblog earlier, but unfortunately left them on another machine which I’m not able to access for a few days. So, I intend to postdate them and keep up my one-a-day record!