____/ Richard Rasker on Monday 31 December 2007 00:32 : \____
> These past few days, with Christmas and all, I met quite a number of people,
> and me being a nerd, the topic of "computers" was raised on numerous
> occasions -- not even so much by yours truly. Heck, I work with Linux
> computers every day, and they're actually totally boring. They work just
> fine, and that's all there is to say about it.
>
> But what sort of struck me, was the fact that each and every one of those
> conversational partners had a very clear view on Vista: it's total crap.
> Some people had bought a new computer with Vista preinstalled, and some had
> even tried to get used to it for several weeks, but in the end, *all* of
> these people dumped it, and either reverted to XP (often at a
> non-significant cost) or sold off their Vista box and got a Mac (at an even
> higher cost).
> Even now that Vista is almost a year on the market, I still have to meet
> even *one* single person who is positive about it. People hate it. Not only
> do they not want it, but this time round, they percieve very clearly how
> Microsoft is trying to shove it down their throat nonetheless, with no
> option to upgrade their Vista installation to XP (unless you pay again).
>
> Of course I could only agree with them. After six years of empty promises
> and vaporware, all you get is a ludicrous piece of bloat, guzzling up ten
> to twenty times the system resources a decent Linux distribution takes for
> equal performance. Erm, let me correct this: Vista will never perform as
> well as Linux.
>
> And oh, I almost forgot: I've got no less than eleven new Linux installs in
> my calendar for next week. An all-time high. Newbies, single mothers,
> technically unsavvy people, but also experienced Windows users -- all
> people who need a computer, but decided that they'd rather spend a few
> dozen bucks on trying this "new" Linux thing on their old computer (or even
> on a brand new bare-bone computer) than spending hundreds of dollars on
> Vista crap.
> And I can guarantee one thing: at least 90% of these new users will never
> look at Microsoft products, ever again.
It doesn't matter. Microsoft still lives in a fantasy world where people can
only choose between vanilla and white.
Microsoft hasn’t denied consumer choice, it IS consumer choice.
--John L. Warden, Microsoft’s lead attorney
Also, about Vista:
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
--Bill Gates
Yes, that sums it all up. It's broken, so use some lipstick.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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