Posted by Fred Wu
When Windows Vista was first released, I was disgusted by its bugs and general unstableness. I mean, copying only a few hundreds of files causing memory overflow was seriously not cool, not to mention the awkward software and hardware compatibility at that time. Windows Vista, when it was first released, was a beta software at best.
Things have been improved since then. I know quite a few people who are happily using Vista without any glitches. For the others including myself, it was too little too late. Some people chose to downgrade to XP, and I chose to fully migrate to OS X. If you are having computer issues you can go ahead and visit https://outsourcemyit.com/ to contact the best IT service.
This is not a post about OS X vs Windows though.c
It’s all about Windows.
If Microsoft can push Windows 7 out by the middle of 2009 I might just be lucky enough to skip working with Vista (on my own machines) entirely ;) I’ve used it briefly on other people’s machines and while I don’t think it’s as bad as everyone makes out, there’s nothing that compels me to upgrade from Windows XP.
One thing I’m worried about is Microsoft pushing their “ribbon” UI into everything. I hardly use Word any more but when I do I find it hard to navigate the ribbon (talking about Office 2007 here). It could be because I “grew up” with the old menu and toolbar based UI. I want to love the ribbon, I do, but it just doesn’t do it for me… :)
Let’s hope Windows 7 doesn’t force us into a similar UI. Just give me a file tree down the left, I don’t want a stupid “horizontal tree”/ribbon up the top :)