Vista
11/03/07 14:14 Filed in: Macs
and the Net
So Windows Vista has been out for a
little bit now, but I haven't even touched it yet, for every public
computer I've used has stuck with XP for the time being. I read
Digg, and although
that site has a heavy Mac/Linux bias, it still seems that Vista is
a nightmare of heavy-handed antipiracy measures and a shiny ripoff
of MacOSX from two years ago.
Back when XP came out ... 5 years ago? ... I upgraded because Millennium was such a piece of garbage, and the press about XP was that it was an improvement. I don't seem to be hearing the same - on the contrary - I keep hearing of school boards, large companies or government sectors that are switching to free versions of Linux in order to avoid the cost / hassle of upgrading to one of Vista's many versions.
Incidentally, the expansion from 2 versions of XP to 5 versions of Vista seems to have affected the lure of getting any of them, which is, we will recall from that TED video I posted, the paradox of choice.
So what's the deal, Windows users? Is it too expensive? Are there two many versions? Are you waiting for the first service pack to come out and fix the inevitable wave of problems? Is upgrading too much of a hassle or too dangerous?
Back when XP came out ... 5 years ago? ... I upgraded because Millennium was such a piece of garbage, and the press about XP was that it was an improvement. I don't seem to be hearing the same - on the contrary - I keep hearing of school boards, large companies or government sectors that are switching to free versions of Linux in order to avoid the cost / hassle of upgrading to one of Vista's many versions.
Incidentally, the expansion from 2 versions of XP to 5 versions of Vista seems to have affected the lure of getting any of them, which is, we will recall from that TED video I posted, the paradox of choice.
So what's the deal, Windows users? Is it too expensive? Are there two many versions? Are you waiting for the first service pack to come out and fix the inevitable wave of problems? Is upgrading too much of a hassle or too dangerous?
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