Early Adopters Beware
If you haven’t already heard this week brought in the VISTA era. As usual early adopters should be wary. I don’t like to be a $200 guinea pig. The new version of the Microsoft OS (operating system) looks pretty slick and is very reminisent of the current Apple OS. Apple will be previewing their new OS in a month or so too. What is one to do? Get it? Don’t get it?
WAIT!!!
The scary thing about VISTA, although there are security upgrades, is that many drivers may not be 100% and many more security holes may be present!. I’d rather work with a tried an true system then tinker with a broken one. The Zune player came out in the Fall and wasn’t compatible at first but now Microsoft says it is ready. It’s interesting that after only a couple of days there is already need for some patches from the competitors!
As always the first version of any OS can have a lot of bugs. No one software company is perfect. Buyer beware. Most people (like myself) will wait for their NEXT computer to “jump” to the next version of an OS (a new system will have it preinstalled). Also a new system would (should???) be optimized to run the latest version of the operating system, right? Who knows how backward compatible VISTA will be, I mean to “upgrade” could well be a downgrade if the OS is a real hog for resources??? I remember too well the pain upgrading an old machine to XP from even ME… OUCH!
Many will beg, buy or steal VISTA but there is always a choice (Multiboot Machine? Unbuntu or other Linux… a pen and paper… anabacus…LoL)
Don’t believe the hype… right…
and that’s why everyone should be using ubuntu. my life has become so much simpler since i converted. no more worries about upgrades, patches, cracks, serials, virii, compatabilities, drm, copyright, legalities, costs and prices…blah blah blah. now the question is, will you-buntu?
When it comes to MS OS, my rule of thumb is always wait for the SP2 version. Always.
Also, I don’t like the idea of the MS, under Vista, sniffing round my computer without me knowing and removing programs without my say-so. So I’ll check ubuntu out for future reference.