Macenstein Goes Overboard with Vista Coffin Article…
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14 Jan 2008After reading this article on Macenstein this evening, I felt compelled to bang out a quick blog to add a little truth to the reality distortion field that is already reaching fever pitch more than 12 hours away from Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld tomorrow.
The article’s title "On Macworld Eve: Two more mails in Vista’s coffin," makes me want to ponder his points a little more. First let me be clear on a few facts
I am a Mac user. I love my Macbook Pro. I love my iPod, and I love OS X.
Now for the disclosure that will shock and cause your brain to hurt. I work for Microsoft. I use Windows Vista every day on a desktop and a laptop. I actually really like Windows Vista too. So with that said, let’s look at some reality and alternate points of view. For the sake of this article, I am going to pretend (actually I am not pretending, I do) use ProTools on a Mac. Let’s rewind to Mac OS X Panther and pretend that I am running a shiny PowerMac dual 2.0 Ghz tower with the latest version of Pro Tools on it. Again, it’s not really hypothetical, I was.
So OS X Tiger came out and I wanted it. The only problem is that ProTools wouldn’t work with OS X Tiger. Only Panther. Sound familiar?
Now let’s fast forward to last year, I ran out to get Leopard, installed it on a brand spankin’ new current 2.2Ghz Macbook Pro and bam, bluescreen. Time Machine ran like crap on a brand new dedicated hard disk. There were glitches abound.
Since when are these things unique to Microsoft? Now we read that there is a petition to keep Microsoft from giving up selling Windows XP. Here is the reality…
If you are using a new computer with current software, Windows Vista works just fine. If you are using an older computer, keep XP on it, it’s probably on it anyway.
Microsoft may very well extend the life of XP, that’s anyone’s guess. But the negativity is pointless. I say instead of giving Vista the finger, give Vista a chance. It’s actually pretty damned solid on good hardware.
UK Schools Ditching Windows?
Here is another take at bait and switch titling. Just because a school isn’t adopting Vista and Office 07 (which is common practice for corporations and educational institutions since Windows 2000 came out to replace NT4) doesn’t mean they are going all Mac or taking up the Linux bandwagon. It just means they aren’t making a commitment to Vista yet. This again, is common practice.
The point is that the tornado that is "hate Vista propaganda" is getting ridiculous. Ethical journalism has long left the building and people are now debating pure hyperbole and buzz. Nobody looks at the facts, the real compatibility and most of all most of the people writing the articles aren’t using it.
Get the facts, give it a shot, and don’t do it on your grandpa’s old commodore 64, use a reasonable system.
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3 Responses to Macenstein Goes Overboard with Vista Coffin Article…
Arturo
January 19th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I agree that people should give any new (Microsoft) OS a chance to prove itself. When Windows 2000 came out everyone waited for SP1 before they would actually install it.
But I must say that I’m quite baffled why Microsoft takes this hard approach with Vista. I mean, when I bought the first PC with XP (1.8Ghz, 512Mb, nvidia) installed, it booted in about 20 seconds. Nice and fast. Sure there where problems video drivers etc in the beginning, but XP was far far superior to win 98/ME (2000 was used for businesses mostly)
When i bought a new laptop not so long ago (tablet, dual core 64bit, 2Gigs, nvidia, etc) it was far slower booting than my first XP machine. On top of that most all DirectX apps ran to 50% slower. Lots of BIG software had glitches like Adobe Photoshop. And I still don’t know why they made that security advisor so annoying (rename 1 file in explorer and get 3 confirmation messages. Yes i know i can disable it).
Now with vista it is much harder to see if indeed it is that much better than XP. For me at least
Sure Leopard and any linux distro has issues to , but i think that Microsoft is going to loose market share with their current attitude.
Jason Burns
January 19th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Arturo » I don’t think there is really a concern with losing market share. Fortunately for Microsoft there are umpteen million windows PC selling a day, and every major software app and hardware is being producted for the platform. I think Windows 7 will make some serious headway by leaving the legacy garbage behind and starting new.
Azizi Khan
July 13th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I recently bought a Macbook Pro 13″. Why ? It was cheaper than a Dell by a couple of hundred bucks because Apple FINALLY decided to drop its prices.
Mind you I’m a through and through PC guy. My day job involves Microsoft .Net.
I can assure you outside the “reality distortion field” all is not good for OSX.
You know Apple as a company doesn’t have a Netware driver out of the box ??? After all these years ???? How dumb is that ??? Windows does it out of the box.
See the thing with Apple is – here it is – its always 90% of something. Thats it. They make products that are always 90%. Never 100%. Don’t believe me ?
1. The IPod is now on its 6th generation. It still doesn’t have radio.
2. The IPhone with its current latest incarnation still CANT DO what 10 year old phones did out of the box. (Ie, sms, mms etc )
3. OSX with no netware.
4. Non removable batteries.
5. Macbook Pros don’t have a hinge for the SD card readers allowing dust to get in.
6. ITunes to any music product from Apple DOES NOT HAVE A STOP BUTTON. You pause it and lock it. If you don’t you drain your battery. Great!
And the list goes on. So what does Apple do ? They will fill the rest with the reality distortion.
“Steve says you don’t need radio on the IPod”.
“Steve says you can do this with Safari”
“Steve says because you have 7 hours of battery, you don’t need to replace it.” (Of course i do, if I worked on the flight in ECONOMY class and have to work into a presentation!)
“Steve says netbook market is shit” (Do you want to bet they will deliver another pretty 90% product ?)
I was in Malaysia and I happened to walk past a Apple booth with minions talking about, get this, Safari. FFS its a browser!!! Move on with your life.
Apple needs its secrecy and its RDF to survive. Unlike other manufacturers they can’t deliver a product as is. You can always be assured a very pretty, technically moderate product.
But I like my Macbook. I run VM Ware Fusion and run all Windows applications on it. Why ? It was cheaper.
AK.