What I was laughing my ass off about this video is a few months back I was chatting with a Microsoft Employee who happens to be in Sales. He said the almost the exact same line as the video. He said in so many words ”Some Enterprises did not deploy Vista because they don’t want to Adopt early but that going to be over with SP1″. When he said it to me, I was thinking then, Man he is really drinking the Microsoft Kool-aid. Now after watching this video I’m convinced its now a PIC line directly to the heart. I also had to bit by tongue and not ask him about all the people who have rolled back to XP.
I used both OS X and I’m a switcher (no not to OS X, I did that already, but back to XP) but I still have one machine running Vista. What’s even more depressing is that the machine has still not done the auto update to SP1. I talked to another Microsoft employee who works there for a long time now but does not always give me the company line told me it will not update my computer until the issues for certain drivers on my machine have been resolved. If I try to update SP1 on its own it will fail! Some Service Pack! All the more reason to stay with XP and wait for XP SP3.
I really, really wanted to to keep using Windows Vista but I tell you, I’ve had nothing but problems it’s just getting worse with each incremental update from Microsoft. Crash after crash, slow to switch to different users, takes FOREVER to login into my Domain and what a memory hog. It seem like it’s slower now then ever and file explorer keeps crashing and locking up. I actually had a blue screen of death the other day! To be honest I’ve not had one of these since Windows ME and Windows 2000.
Windows Vista on my notebook in the last month or so has stopped Visual Studio 2005 from debugging code! I’ve made no changes to VS2005, but the debugger is broken. It’s made it completely useless and has resorted me to using a Virtual PC version of Windows XP to get any work done!! I’ll be moving back to XP when the latest Service Pack comes. The new XP Service Pack is said to make XP just as secure as Windows Vista. Don’t even get me started on how horrible Windows Explorer 7 is! I really hope that IE 8 will fix performance and CSS compliance issues.
Wow! I never thought I would admit it but I really do like, no love, Windows Vista. I’ve installed it on my desktop computer and it’s been for the most part a very good experience. However, I don’t recommend it for notebooks at the moment. The two notebooks I have tried it on, runs a bit sluggish. As long as you have a new machine, with at least 2 gigs of RAM and a decent graphics card, Vista is beautiful. The last couple of weeks I’ve been working on my desktop and when I go to use my Macbook pro notebook, it feels a bit dated. Maybe it’s the Aero theme that has me hooked or the new sleek UI but whatever it is I’m hooked.
I did have some problems with the sound card drivers at first but I was able to get this resolved after digging through the forums. The other real problem I had was with Visual Studio 2005 not running as smooth as it should. This was resolved when I updated Visual Studio 2005 to Service Pack 1 and found a Vista update for Visual Studio 2005 sp1. After updating VS2005, it’s been working pretty well!
I did have to turn off the infamous “Cancel or Allow” dialogs! (If you’ve seen the new Apple commercial and have been using Vista, you know how true it is with dealing with that annoying dialog box.) This “interruption” was driving me bonkers. So much so I hated the whole Vista experience at first. I was about 10 minutes into reinstalling Windows XP, when I found out I could turn this off (The Apple commercial stated this could be done! Thanks Apple!!) and things got a lot better from there.The Speech recognition in Vista is AMAZING! I tried it out the other day and I’m truly impressed on how good it was. I won’t go into it here but it has come a long way!
The other thing that may have had a positive influence is the new Office 2007. At first I was extremly worried about what Microsoft did to Office with the new Ribbon feature, but after using it to write some documents at work, I could not believe that this was not thought of sooner!
Well there you have it. A switcher that is not afraid to admit he likes something else beside OS X. The good news is I’ll have a new version of OS X in the next month or so. Hopefully I can fall back in love with my Apple again. I’m sure I will!
Oh! I almost forgot! My Seven year old son was asking to use the computer and he noticed it was no longer running Windows XP. He said to me “Is this a new Mac dad?” HAHA…That’s it! I like Windows Vista because it looks so much like OS X!!
On Friday I had created a presentation for my kids school. I’ve done the 8th grade graduation presentation for the last couple of years. I get all the images and video from each student and use Keynote and iLife create it on my Mac. I can create a very professional presentation that can be watched from a DVD very quickly.
However, I don’t have a portable Mac so each year I’ve played the DVD on my Dell notebook. I’ve been running Windows XP and it’s been pretty reliable. However a couple of weeks ago, I installed Windows Vista Beta 2 on my notebook.
Today I went down to the school, did test run and it played great in Windows Media Center. When it came time to showing the presentation (about 1.5 hours after the test run), Windows Media center decides to die. I kid you not! The exact moment when I have over 300 people waiting to watch the presentation, Media center crashes. Then a few minutes later Windows Vista Crashes! I had to reboot the computer while the principal and my wife are worried that we may not be able to play the presentation.
After the presentation my wife starts laughing and says that does not say much for Microsoft’s new operating system! I know, it’s a Beta, but by the time you’re in Beta 2, the core OS should be stable enough that something this trivial should not happen.
I can guarantee you next year, I’ll be doing everything on that new Mac book pro I’ve been waiting to get!
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Wow! I never thought I would admit it but I really do like, no love, Windows Vista. I’ve installed it on my desktop computer and it’s been for the most part a very good experience. However, I don’t recommend it for notebooks at the moment. The two notebooks I have tried it on, runs a bit sluggish. 