Jan
14After 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.
