Don’t do windows anymore…
After years of systems support in both small and large environments with windows, mac, netware and linux I have made a choice. I don’t do windows anymore. I have found that all systems are frustrating and at times don’t behave well, like when your dog pees on the carpet. But after a good yell and those puppy-dog eyes you learn to forgive. Not the Bill Gates Bull Dog. I have recently switched over to a job that is mostly Mac system support. I love it! I clone machines, in a heart beat, run an entire OS off a portable hard drive or CD, and numerous other tricks you can’t do with windows. Let’s face it there just too fragile. Linux and Mac OS X are in the same ball park and everything I mention here can be done with Linux.
Now comes Vista, which in Spanish means View, a Window with a View… HAHAHA. So, the only view the user is getting I hear is a frustrating one. I tested vista in beta and got nothing but a headache, it crashed, never worked, none of my programs worked from Windows XP and the reply from everyone around me was “that’s to be expected, its beta and its a new product.” When Mac OS X came out I beta tested it in 2000 while I was working for a media company, they were working on the NASADAQ Market site in Time Square and needed to render the globe. This globe was the size of a couple stories and curved. So, the rendering on a G4 I believe with SCSI hardrives and fast graphic adapter said it would take around 90 hours. I was testing mac os x and put a classic os 9 environment on top of it, ran the same program on a G 3 without the SCSI hardware and did the same rendering in only 40 hours. Of course this was only BETA. I did have other issues with the Mac OS X beta but the machine ran smooth, applications did load, things copied and most of all backwards compatibility seemed to be working just fine.
What sparks me to write this is that everyday a new bug is found in Windows Vista yet more people are using the product. I think people have to start making the move off Vista and onto Linux or Mac OS X. The time has passed Windows if Microsoft can not make a product that is stable enough to work efficiently. I could go into all the little details as Microsoft Certified Professional that I’ve seen over the years but it really isn’t worth it, it’s just a crime to see a company that’s products don’t even work properly on its on operating system then blame the consumer. So, educate yourself and see a whole new world out there.
Article on copying issue with Vista: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=829
Consumer group demanding XP over Vista
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