Jamie's Random Musings
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, Windows XP and Widows Vista, and assorted bits of hardware new and old.
Friday 7 March 2008, 3:06 PM
Vista - Is It Some Sort of Drug?
Then I started loading all of my basic software - Firefox, Thunderbird, ooVoo, SightSpeed, Gizmo and so on. The more I worked with it, just getting that stuff loaded, the more I realized that I really LIKE the way this thing runs with Vista. I can't put my finger on it; it's not only the "Aero" user interface, and it's certainly not any faster than it runs with XP Pro. It's almost like an addiction... I want it, but I can't tell you why. I think this is a large part of the reason why I have kept saying over and over again, I really WANT Vista to work, to be better than XP, or at least as good, at least as fast and reliable.
Maybe Microsoft has slipped some of that subliminal mind-control software into the Aero interface... it's taking control of me... I have to have it...
No! This disk is coming out again this evening, as soon as I do a bit of testing with the Wireless-N connection, because I've updated the firmware in the router since I last had Vista running. But then it's coming out, and I'm going back to XP until SP1 is available. I swear!
jw 7/4/2008


