Foreign Perspectives

Is it just me, or does everyone out there think that Vista is rubbish?

I’ve a nice new Vista ready computer that came with Vista Business installed yet it will only run for about two hours before it hangs up. Not only does it hang up, but it stops working in a very peculiar way: when I start using it, many keyboard shortcuts work yet after an hour or so they stop working.

And then, there’s the updates. Every single time I need to reboot it (which is easily three times a day) it has more software updates to install.

Now that the “two hours” before it hangs seems to be reducing, I’m seriously looking into scrapping it altogether and installing Linux. The one thing that’s stopped me doing that so far is that I’ve a lot of information inside Outlook which I don’t think would transfer into a Linux setup but since Outlook constantly stops working anyway, I figure that I’m going to lose all that information sooner or later anyway so I’ve started looking into dual boot options to easy the transition.

I think Microsoft have squarely shot themselves in the foot with this one: not only is the file format not compatible with older versions but the keyboard shortcuts that we’ve all learnt don’t work and to cap it all the software is the most flakey that I’ve come across for many years.