Colin Harrington

Yep that’s a snail on a turtle with a Vista tattoo to illustrate how Vista = slow³.  I threw this together to console a friend who was going through an upgrade to Windows Vista SP3.  It took them weeks(so far) to roll it out at his work; and it still isn’t complete.  The pic is adapted from an icanhazcheezburger.com post.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled with the speed of a Linux desktop without intrusive ‘virus protection’, but everytime I use a Vista machine, I find myself frustrated.  I guess I get sick of the waiting, double confirmations, the "I told you to shutdown, why are you installing updates… ", etc.

I have professionally developed on all major desktop OSs (Windows[98,2k,XP,Vista], OSX, and Linux) as well as used many others over the years (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Solaris, HPUX, Windows[2k3,2008], etc.)   So when I started my current contract, I had a bad dream the night before.  I dreampt that I was forced to use Windows Vista.  I’m not going to call it a nightmare, but it came close   (They ended up giving me an XP box)

This is my OS Preference as it stands today:
Vista < XP < Windows 7 < OSX < Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.)

I honestly expected more from Vista seeing that it was coming from the largest/wealthiest software company/OS vendor in the world.  Using Vista isn’t the end of the world, but you don’t know better until you get a taste of freedom   To be fair, Microsoft has put a lot of effort behind Windows and it is a big responsibility when you take the OS Market in the 90′s and into the 2000s.  MacOS was saved by OSX; can Microsoft follow suit?  Either way, good competition makes for a better Operating System landscape.