Someone Else

Robert Moir writes about Operating Systems, Computer Security and Virtualisation.

Upgraded my PC today...

After 6 months battling with Vista, I have finally come to the conclusion that Vista is, as they say, "teh suck". I came to this conclusion after Windows Installer died a horrible horrible death and I was unable to add or remove any programs from my system. [YOU ARE UNINSTALLING VISTA. CANCEL OR ALLOW]

Now it would be wrong to say that Microsoft didn't try to help. They provide a tool to 'clean up' Windows Installer in the event of you having problems with it. Sadly, this tool requires Windows Installer to be working in order to be installed so that it can fix your broken Windows Installer system. I have no idea if this is an attempt at existentialist irony or if the whole team behind this product simply consists of <BLANK> idiots. [YOU ARE CRITICISING MICROSOFT. CANCEL OR ALLOW]

I was forced to give up Vista due to faults but it wasn't until I put XP back on this machine that I realised how badly Vista was dragging it down. It makes a nice change to have my desktop computer back to it's old habits of doing what I want it to do when I want it to do it once again. With Windows Vista I always felt like I had to shadow-box it and trick it into doing things for me at times, with things like being able to turn on or off hidden files in explorer or quickly view the properties of my network connection being 2 or 3 clicks away at the most in XP and god only knows where in Vista.[YOU ARE POINTING OUT FLAWS IN VISTA. CANCEL OR ALLOW]

All this time my Mac laptop has sat quietly by just getting on with the things I need to rely on having done. "You are coming to a sad realisation. Cancel or allow?"

In any case, one shiny new Windows XP with SP2 install later and I'm happy. Well happy enough... with well over 100 hotfixes and patches downloaded onto my computer from Microsoft Update, isn't it about time we saw a Service Pack Three for Windows XP? How about it Microsoft... Cancel or Allow?

 

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Someone Else said:

Don&#39;t let the spin fool you. Microsoft have agreed to extend the &quot;end of shelf-life&quot; date

# September 28, 2007 12:01 PM