Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I have come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.
I seem to be an accidental early adopter of Windows operating systems. While it took me over a year after its release to get a computer running Windows 95, my replacement for that machine, a Compaq desktop with a paltry 4 GB hard drive, was purchased right after Windows 98 came out. In October 2000 I bought an HP desktop just a month after Windows Me came out, and that OS sucked so hard that I had to buy Windows XP several weeks after its release a year later.
But I think the streak stops there.
One could probably lump me in with the legions of Microsoft haters. Though I usually don’t dip so low as to write MS with a dollar sign, I have no love for the company, and shun their products whenever possible. WiMP sucks. IE sucks. I would upgrade to OS X in a heartbeat if there was a legal PC version of it. Of all of Redmond’s offerings, only Office earns my trust.
Adventure Vista is no exception.
We got our first machines in at work Payback rip
about a week before the launch date, and the difference was immediately obvious: bleh. There are horribly longer install times, even on decent machines. Patches are necessary for a lot of security software that worked fine for XP. Security is locked up so tight that you have to confirm that you want to change the clock style on the desktop (and there’s word today that the OS doesn’t work with some online games because it’s afraid they might be the hackers.) And that’s all before we take into account the ridiculous DRM functions built in that limit your ability to do things as simple as watching HD-DVDs over analog component cables. Idiots.
Churchill: The Hollywood Years release Is it prettier than XP? Hell yes. In trying (though they’ll deny it) to mirror the beauty of Apple’s OS X, Microsoft has improved the GUI of Windows by leaps and bounds; even without the advanced graphics card necessary for the Aero interface, the smooth textures and transparencies leap off the screen and, as corny as this sounds, makes using your computer a much more pleasant experience. It’s the first time I’ve been impressed with the look of Windows since I first glimpsed Windows 95 in Best Buy; it was a huge jump forward from the rather docile Win 3.11 display, and though the redesign is not as radical this time the change is still very evident.
That said, it’s still not OS X, and it’s definitely not worth the upgrade. Admittedly this comes from someone who hasn’t sat down and installed Vista and taken the time to play around with it long term, but from what I’ve done and what I’ve seen around all the internets, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy a machine with it installed (like you have a choice) but an upgrade from XP on an existing computer is pointless.
To Live and Die in L.A. Unless you plan on using it as a media hub, but then I’m going to fire you out of a canon anyway.