Every once in a while a product is released that simply fails to catch on with consumers, the most famous of which were probably Ford’s ill-fated ”Edsel” and the equally dismal ”New Coke”. Well, with Windows Vista the boys from Redmond have managed to release a version of the embattled operating system that has left a very bad taste in the mouths of hordes of computer users. And for good reason…
Not long after Microsoft had finally worked out most of the bugs and made XP the most stable version of Windows ever, they made the inexplicable decision to forcibly replace it with Vista – a massive, bloated monstrosity of code that literally overnight rendered millions of perfectly good PC’s and programs that had operated flawlessly for years obsolete. What’s worse, the OS has never been anywhere near as stable as XP, even after the much-hyped release of Service Pack 1.
Case in point: Just this afternoon my wife clicked the little icon that told her she needed to allow her PC to install an “important update”, only to find that Vista wouldn’t load when the process was finished. Call me crazy, but it seems to me that the last thing an “important update” should do is render your computer completely unusable! Thank the good Lord that System Restore decided to work properly for a change. Of course she can still take in a good movie in the time it takes her installation of Vista to start up or shut down, but that’s a rant for a different day.
Apparently Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall for Vista, so they’re planning to rush its replacement (dubbed Windows 7) onto new PC hard drives and store shelves sometime in early 2009. For their sake and ours, hopefully this version will be everything that Vista promised to be – fast, stable and easy to use.
I guess when they get the bugs worked out of the new version will be when I update. Thanks for keeping us posted.
You’re welcome Phyllis.