Final Conclusion - Vista Bites

I finally decided to jump on the Vista “hate” bandwagon, so here goes: “I freaking hate Vista!” I know I am not alone in the world because I hear everyone complaining about the same things I do. We complain about incompatibility, graphic intensiveness, complicated, too different and on and on. How could so many of us have been fooled into believing that the first of any operating system released by Microsoft would reveal anything but trouble? One would think that these guys would get one right from the get-go for once, but Vista has proven to be more than disappointing for millions.

In the news today I read a story that illustrates just how screwed up this operating system is. So screwed up in fact that British schools are being asked not to use the upgrade. The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency made this recommendation in view of the conflicts particularly with older systems. Essentially, the report reflected that the cost for upgrading the school systems there to Vista would be too high given the relative benefit the OS would provide. As for upgrading to Office 2007, the report said: “There remains no compelling case for deployment.”

No Mas!

I would list 20 or 300 reasons why Vista sucks but it has been done already . The point I would like to make is, just how many times does one “mega” company have to screw up initial releases before we get fed up? As a personal nightmare story , let me relate my own experiences with Vista.

• Office 2007 - New PC loaded with Vista offered only the trial *whatever happened to actually getting Office?” and there was the learning curve / why such a departure?

• Vista discoverability - The thing runs so slow it is like using the Flock browser on a P3 machine, plus why does think people like heavy learning curves?

• PC Webcam - No dice! Incompatible with Vista / massive driver download.

• HP Scanner - Suffice it to say I no longer have this scanner.

• HP Deskjet - Another adventure in searching the Web for solutions, but it now works.

• Counterstrike Source - Good thing I have no time for first person shooters.

• FTP clients - After downloading 5 I finally got one to work.

• Sony Digital Camera - Still more time installing and uninstalling.

The list actually goes on and on, but it is fair to say that fully 80 percent of the hardware I tried to load failed on this brand new PC because of Vista conflicts . This says nothing of the dozens of online programs I have tried to install that are in conflict. Vista is quite frankly the most aggravating and frustrating OS I have ever worked with.

Conclusion

We are so thrilled that Web 2.0 and all these innovations have taken us afar beyond what was possible 10 years ago, but MS cannot even get an OS right the first time. It makes me wonder if either MS is a 1.0 company or if there is some method to this madness? So there is the technology news for today. In 2008 an entire national school system could not see the value in a new MS product. Well, neither can I and I just reformatted this PC with XP Professional in case you wondered.