See my post #13.
Vista was an attempt to emulate the Mac - see where it got us.
I have STRONGLY recommended to all those who call our IT Help Line: XP SP3 is on the way, so keep it for a while longer. If you buy a new box with Vista, do a retro-install of XP and save yourself the inconvenience.
In fairness, Vista SP1 is supposed to restore a lot of the functionality, but I have yet to see a beta. Jury’s not back yet.
Interesting piece of info....if you do not already know concerning Microsoft.
Windows is actually a MAC OS clone stolen by Bill Gates and Co. years ago during a meeting with Apple execs. This was shown in a movie years ago and kinda and intersting tidbit for those who have not followed Windows history (not implying you have not).
It was a poor attempt. Microsoft wasted several years of R&D trying to develop a "new" operating system that copied Apple - but Bill Gates messed it up with some of his pet projects like WinFS. Then Microsoft threw it away and started over again, and rushed it out the door without attaining the high quality that Apple achieved with with Mac OS X.
Microsoft will not be able to develop a decent modern operating system until they abandon their instance on native compatibility with 1981 standards. Their PC-DOS compatibility needs to be in a separate subsystem, not running the main show.
Vista does emulate OS X in some aspects, but IMO the major reasons why Vista sucks the chrome off a bumper hitch is the DRM crap shoved into the OS.
If Willy Gates had told the RIAA/MPAA to go shove it, Vista could have been a nice OS, doing only what Microsoft wanted and what Microsoft customers needed.
Now it is some bloated law enforcement tool masquerading as a computer OS.
I’ve tested Vista SP1 Betas and release candidates. Today we received the official SP1 (yes, pre-public release; MS likes us) for deployment within our university enterprise environment. Public release of SP1 should be early/ mid March.
SP1 is nothing special on the front end and to the average user there are no readily apparent changes. Vista still sucks after its application.
XP is going to be our mainstay for quite some time.
I never thought of it that way, but there are similarities. The most obvious being that both the Mac OS and Vista assume the user to be way too stupid to be allowed access to certain aspects of the Operating System.