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Vista Still Annoying People, but Maybe it’s Not as Bad as We Thought
Author: Jeremy Scott13 Dec
Has your new Windows Vista operating system annoyed you? Enough to write a book about it? Because that’s what this guy did.
Actually, Windows 95 annoyed him–back in the day–and it was enough to cause him to write out all the various bugs and glitches as well as work-arounds for each.
13 years later, and he’s turned it into a full-time job. David Karp has written a book of annoyances (and fixes) for every version of Windows since, and Vista is no exception. There are, in fact, over 600 pages of annoyances in this book.
One of the more interesting things he says is that our perceptions play tricks with us, perhaps making us think that XP is better than Vista. Karp claims that XP had just as many annoying bugs when it came out. So it is the freshness…the newness of the Vista annoyances that make us overinflate the greatness of XP. Users all over the world have been clamouring for XP on new PCs, forcing Mircosoft to extend XP’s availability many times. But Karp reminds you that XP–however great–is still a piece of software written in 2001. Vista, for all its bad press, will slowly iron out its bugs….as all Windows incarnations have. Don’t let it frighten you too much; even a buggy new OS is probably a better long-term option than a seemingly-smooth 7-year-old one.
Unless you’re like my uncle, who is still using Windows Me. Let it go, man…let it go.
4 Responses for "Vista Still Annoying People, but Maybe it’s Not as Bad as We Thought"
Here’s another suggestion…. just don’t go down the Vista road. Love your hardware enough to ditch Windows and switch to Linux. Or, if you must buy new hardware anyway, then just buy a Mac. Yeah, they are over priced, but it’ll look cooler on your desk. Either way, you are going to get a more stable and more secure system. Get your self out of the virus industries cross hairs and ditch Windows.
That’s a really, really cool idea.
Totally unrealistic, but cool nonetheless.
I remember when I used Macs in the pre-press/printing industry, one of Apple’s strongholds. I was the biggest Windoze hater in Middle Tennessee. I couldn’t imagine why anyone would EVER use a PC…until I saw what they can do far better than a Mac EVER did. I finally realized it: System 9 sucked. Mac’s System 9 was a crashing piece of crap…Windows 2000 was superior. Oops.
You will eventually tire of drinking the Mac Kool Aid. Not everyone has to agree with you. Not everyone is going to want a Mac. I still use both. I’m not going to hell for using Windows. I like Macs…but I’m not going to use them in my business because they flat out don’t do small business as well. Besides…you Microsoft haters don’t want us geeks in your tent anyway, do you?
Heres the Apple Support page
What I really want….is a version of Vista that works well on a Mac. Do they make that yet?
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