VISTA
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- rafalski0
I got a macbook with intent to run Vista on it and installed the beta through parallels a few months ago, alongside XP. I really hoped it would be an improvement over XP, stealing what it had to from OSX.
First thing that attacks you when running vista is Windows Defender, whatever it is. First thought: Why does my computer try to scare me with such feature? Are we on war with viruses or something?
I played with Vista for a few days and threw it out in disappointment. I really hoped it would be a step up from XP.
I am now using OSX, running XP whenever needed (and it is needed quite often). Vista turns out to be Windows 2000 rebadged again, heavier, uglier (as if XP wasn't) and pointless. The only thing that really drew my attention using Vista were the new fonts.What don't understand, why Windows has no real competition (I am not counting OSX, because it is limited to proprietary hardware).
There is enormous money in it, why doesn't someone put a couple of hundred millions into defining a linux distro? All you have to do is follow Apple: instead of multiplying options (like all opensource projects tend to do), define and limit them. That's what Apple is doing - a variant of unix with a very defined user interface. Not endlessly extendable, but precisely limited. Is it really this hard to do?:)
Now all I want is Apple to steal a few good features from XP, like cut and paste, more responsible UI (my XP feels faster on my macbook than OSX does), more than a corner to resize windows, and I few more I forgot now.