I had my first close encounter with Vista this weekend on a laptop that my father-in-law purchased recently. He hates it with a passion, and it's pretty easy to see why. So far as either of us could tell, it's a lot like XP, except a zillion times slower. It's like back to the 1980s, where you have to go get a cup of coffee after you start an application and before it actually comes up.
He's an avid musician, and starting to look at using different music software and hardware. And he keeps tripping over the fact that he's got Vista instead of an older version of windows.
Since I work in technology, I of course don't know anybody else who'se using Vista. I guess we all know to stay away from new Microsoft operating systems for a couple of years.
Joel Spolsky, a tech writer who doesn't hate microsoft, agrees: "I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system -- it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone asks, my advice is to stay with Windows XP (and to purchase new systems with XP preinstalled)."
I avoided XP for a while, and now am completely happy with it. And I expect Vista to be a fine operating system when I start using it around 2009 or 2010, when all the software and peripherals I need will have worked out the rough edges.
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