“somewhat bloated and overly agressive in its effort to protect you from yourself, but pretty darn good.”
Somewhat bloated... bwhahahaha Vista pretty nuch needs two gigs to be usable. Thats insane..
“Unlike Apple which has no problem with rendering their users’ equipment obsolete when they release a new OS (the Power PC for example)”
So you’re saying vista will run on my p150 cool... oh wait the requirements of it obsoleted that processor. And the P-Series is *still* supported just not sold (until the next release I think).
“Most of the complaints with Vista came from those who suddenly found their legacy printers and other equipment no longer supported. Of course that was blamed on MS even though in the vast majority of cases it was the fault of the manufacturer of that piece of equipment.”
Spin Spin Spine... MS locked vendors out not to the same extent Apple does but it was MS’s piss poor planning of vista (they started to panic as the years went one) that lead to its reputation.