Yes, I already have made up my mind. I have a 17″ mac book pro. Best machine I have ever had. Expensive, yes. But it is the age old mantra, you get what you pay for.

To update the story, I did buy a new Dell machine for my wife. It is a 64 bit AMD with Vista installed. To be honest, it hasn’t changed my opinion at all. In fact, I think it strengthened it. The fact that it took 7 years for Microsoft to build that just baffles me. It is a horrible user experience, who cares about a 3D carousel of windows, or semi-transparent chrome with blurs. Big deal, they skinned the elephant and fed the elephant well too, because it’s a pig.

When I first heard Windows was starting from the ground up with their new operating system shortly after XP was released my mind went crazy. I figured they would of dropped the whole “windows” idea. I was hoping to see something more organic. Of course you are never going to get away from seperate applications running in seperate windows if you will. But why do they have to be square? For obvious reasone certain applications have to be, the metaphor of a piece of paper when using word processing software would be a hard one to change. But why can’t an address book be more like a rolodex, or notepad be more like a ragged notepad, and even the whole task bar, be more interactive, maybe apps floating in 3d space and react to your cursor position. Just something a little more rich, engaging, exciting, something that makes users say WOW. 7 years later and some of the worlds best developers and that is all that Microsoft came up with, I don’t get it?

So 7 years of development and lots of bragging about how great security will be. Guess what, there is already a security hole in the cursor of all things.

I know microsoft will never be brought down, probably not in my life anyway. They have too tight a grip on the crotch of corporate america and beyond. I am neck deep in computer geek-dom daily, and I see the trends changing. 2 years ago I don’t think anyone in my circle would of even considered a mac. Today I can count on one hand the number that haven’t switched to a mac in that same circle.

What I hope is that mac and linux will make enough of a dent in the OS penetration market that Windows will start to look at what they are doing wrong. Microsoft has perfected too little too late, and the ironic thing is they are still always late when it comes to releasing software.

That’s enough for me. I am falling asleep at the wheel here. I think this topic has been beat to a pulp, we all know I am disappointed in Vista. I actually don’t know of anyone that is overly excited about it. The most positive comment I’ver heard from a colleague of mine is “It’s OK”. Definitely not WOW life the Microsoft ads.

In the end it really isn’t what you use, it’s how you use it and how comfortable you feel with it. At this stage of my life I feel much more comfortable in OSX with iTunes and Flex Builder with the Apollo add ons installed in front of me.

Hey, my captcha text is akon, I thought that was kind of funny.

Scott

I told you Microsoft is not to be trusted! Vista is the single biggest waste of an operating system since Windows Bob.

I still think Microsoft should get smart and switch to a UNIX core and stop trying to build all those bloody digitally-signed drivers. For the love of Pete, we shouldn’t have to go through the agony of a registry!!

Vista isn’t the reason I got a mac, the constand disappointment in Microsoft software, and the general lack of thought that is put into their software. The “wow” factor isn’t what attracts me to a mac, the stability, the community, and the general interest in the user and their experience is what attracts me to mac. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not your typical it has to be mac, mac is the best, mac or die, kind of guy. I’ll use whatever excites me to use it. Microsoft as of late has perfected the painful experience, constant security risks, constant bugs, glitches. The fact that I had over 300 megs of updates says something. I know MS is building for the masses and it is hard to meet everyones requirements. No one will ever do that, but you can let the user take control of their experience. Windows is an appropriate name, a window, usually glass encased in a box of some sort, Microsoft is also encased in a box and afraid to step out of that box. Mac, the linux community, they are not afraid to take a risk, and it is working out for them. Go to a conference, look out at the crowd, there are a lot more glowing apples out there then there were a few years ago. The times they are a changing, it’s time to let companies and developers who put their users first into the mainstream.

sounds like u have already made up your mind. but this could be a simple bios problem. try upgrading/flashing ur bios, or try turning off acpi settings in your bios. sorry to hear u had such a bad start… i run vista and think it’s great… much better than any of microsoft’s previous attempts. personally i don’t think apple are better or even more stable than vista. mac is just too simple for me, and very overpriced if you compare hardware specs.(the graphics cards in mac book pro stink, (and a 13.3 inch screen are you kidding?)) if you really want to change switch to linux.

Hey scott… I came across this searching for something else… thought you would appreciate this…

http://bodiegroupinc.blogspot.com/2007/12/microsoft-rant_15.html