The joke’s on Microsoft Vista

The worst Windows upgrade I've seen in 13 years.

I hate Vista. It’s caused me nothing but trouble. To get it to run speedily, I had to disable all the eye candy, including the Sidebar. I disabled the obnoxious Search Indexing feature that causes everything else to load at an agonizingly slow pace. My PC sometimes takes up to a half hour to shut down. Many times, I have done the unthinkable, manually powering the computer off, because I have a life and do not want to dedicate several hours a day to Vista maintenance.

So today I read about MojaveExperiment.com, Microsoft’s idea of funny.

See, you get all these people to check out this insanely great new operating system and they freakin’ like it. And then you tell them that it’s really Vista. Surprise! All that stuff you heard about Vista must not be true, right?

I thought Vista was semi-cool in the first few minutes I loaded it, too. Actually I thought it was a second-rate Mac OS X knock-off.

Bob Garfield, a columnist for Advertising Age, told the New York Times if a product has a bad reputation, it is not because of faulty perceptions. It is because of a faulty product.

The Times’ writer Dan Mitchell noted that Vista “has drawn more scorn than most major software products do. People have found it hard to set up. Users have complained that it saps memory and that installing
drivers or applications is too difficult.”

Anyway, the MS ad campaign is being criticized by many bloggers, and I thought I’d add myself to the list. Now, let me time how long it takes for Windows to shut down this time. Odds are it will be longer than it took me to write this.

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