Vista Venom
No, I won’t be getting in line tonight to buy Vista when it’s released tomorrow. In fact, I’m in no hurry whatsoever to get it. I remember being burnt by Windows 3.0, and since then I refuse to buy Microsoft’s first release of anything. (I’d go back to IE6 after being forced to upgrade to IE7 if it weren’t such a hassle… and if I used IE.)
Luckily, Microsoft’s announced its plans to extend support for XP until April 2009. That just might be enough time to work out all the bugs that are sure to be discovered as soon as Vista becomes available to the mass public.
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I do like Office 2007. It is definitely different than 2003 and earlier. Toolbars especially. In Word, when you have text highlighted and want to change the size or the font, as you mouse over the font names or sizes, the document shows a preview of what it will look like at that size, in that font. Pretty cool. I’m going to a Vista/Office launch event next Wednesday. Hopefully I’ll find out more about both.
I was invited to a Vista event and I would go, but I’m like you. . .I’ll wait a while. And I won’t try and upgrade — I’ll just buy a new computer with Vista and Office 2007 preloaded.
By God, I deserve a new work PC.
YEAH!
*wink*
I’ve loaded Vista on VMWare (virtual machine) on my laptop to play with, but the physical laptop will probably stay XP for now.
Heh. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve switched back and forth between IE6 and some version or another of IE7. At least two of the occasions were the result of a crash after which I had to use System Restore.
Firefox is my primary browser anyway.
I can’t afford another pc right now, and that’s the route I’d have to go if I was so inclined to jump on the vista bandwagon.
I like xp so I’ll stick with it till my current pc ceases to be (oh please God don’t let that be soon…)
I won’t EVER go to Vista. I think XP will be my last Microcrap OS. I will probably move to some flavour (yes, a “u” in flavour…I’m Canadian :)) of Linux. For an excellent discussion of WHY I would never choose Vista, take a gander at this, long and techie, but worth the read (if only for the funny quotes at the end): A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection