Windows Vista

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Yes I know, there are zillions of blogs on this subject and it is not my intention to start another one. Let me just make a few observations and let's start with Bill Gates.

At some time, Gates is reputed to have said something along the lines that if the motor industry had progressed as fast as the computer industry, then a Rolls Royce would cost 50 pounds and do 500 miles per gallon of petrol. Fine but what he didn't mention was that cars would also end up the size of pack of 20 cigarettes.

But let us not dwell on that.

Look at Vista, the latest and supposedly most splendiforous operating system that he and his crew of anoraks have come up with. It's quite lovely and so slow. My desktop is supposed to be state of the art - quad core, gigs of RAM and that blitzing NVidia 8800 GT graphics card. It's taken me six attempts to load Service Pack 1 and still a Quicktime movie takes an age to load.

I could rant on and on here but I won't. Just think about this. Imagine if we launch a new car today and we said it was prettier than anything that had gone before. Nice?

But then how would you feel when you found out that its fuel economy had dropped by a third and its acceleration had fallen by half?

That's Vista for you.