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llama64 · 01-25-2008, 07:59 AM

People who keep giving Vista heck these days are one of two people:

1) Crappy Windows Software developers
2) Ignorant people who heard that Vista sucked at launch and haven't bothered checking if that status has changed.

I've been using Vista on development machine for 10 months straight now. The first two months were pretty brutal. The system lasted about 4-5 hours without going down due to software incompatibility issues or bad drivers. Then, new drivers were released for my hardware that were compatible with Vista and I haven't had a major system crash since then. Vista as an Operating system is surprisingly well built. The morons who make programs for it took an extended amount of time figuring out that their hacks don't work anymore with the new security model and started spreading FUD all over the place. And gullible people bought it.

Windows ME sucked because it was an insecure mess of code. There is a reason MS dumped the Dos kernel in favour of the NT stack. Vista sucked because there was no device support at launch.

I just built a brand new PC based on budget components and used 32bit Vista (never going over 2gb of ram in this one). The whole build process from start to finish took about 1.5 hours. That's including setup of the system software, installation of printer drivers and MS Office. It was the simplest experience I have ever had. My opinion of Vista went WAY up after that.

Point is, if you're still walking around talking about how crappy Vista is, man up and try it. You will not go back to XP unless you rely on software that has yet to be made compatible with Vista. Why people think the OS should be compatible with everything is beyond me... It's up to the software vendors to make their products compatible with the environment!

Apple will never match Microsoft's profit margins mainly because they will never hold a massive IT contract for an international business. Can you imagine a bunch of Drilling Engineers trying to do their work on a Mac? It's kinda comical. It's like imagining the police force in Calgary driving a bunch of Aston Martins around as their fleet vehicles.

Apple is a consumer product. It's aimed at small businesses and the home user. And in this market, Apple has the better product. Good thing the market is starting to notice!

I still maintain that if you are going to buy a laptop, buy a Mac. Desktops are Windows territory though. Unless you want that bizzare all in one iMac thing.

01-25-2008, 07:59 AM	#15
llama64 First Line Centre Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: /dev/null Exp:	People who keep giving Vista heck these days are one of two people: 1) Crappy Windows Software developers 2) Ignorant people who heard that Vista sucked at launch and haven't bothered checking if that status has changed. I've been using Vista on development machine for 10 months straight now. The first two months were pretty brutal. The system lasted about 4-5 hours without going down due to software incompatibility issues or bad drivers. Then, new drivers were released for my hardware that were compatible with Vista and I haven't had a major system crash since then. Vista as an Operating system is surprisingly well built. The morons who make programs for it took an extended amount of time figuring out that their hacks don't work anymore with the new security model and started spreading FUD all over the place. And gullible people bought it. Windows ME sucked because it was an insecure mess of code. There is a reason MS dumped the Dos kernel in favour of the NT stack. Vista sucked because there was no device support at launch. I just built a brand new PC based on budget components and used 32bit Vista (never going over 2gb of ram in this one). The whole build process from start to finish took about 1.5 hours. That's including setup of the system software, installation of printer drivers and MS Office. It was the simplest experience I have ever had. My opinion of Vista went WAY up after that. Point is, if you're still walking around talking about how crappy Vista is, man up and try it. You will not go back to XP unless you rely on software that has yet to be made compatible with Vista. Why people think the OS should be compatible with everything is beyond me... It's up to the software vendors to make their products compatible with the environment! Apple will never match Microsoft's profit margins mainly because they will never hold a massive IT contract for an international business. Can you imagine a bunch of Drilling Engineers trying to do their work on a Mac? It's kinda comical. It's like imagining the police force in Calgary driving a bunch of Aston Martins around as their fleet vehicles. Apple is a consumer product. It's aimed at small businesses and the home user. And in this market, Apple has the better product. Good thing the market is starting to notice! I still maintain that if you are going to buy a laptop, buy a Mac. Desktops are Windows territory though. Unless you want that bizzare all in one iMac thing.