I guess it was the fact that Vista even made it out of beta that sickened me. If they had rebadged Windows XT as Windows Vista, it would have won PC Magazine's OS of the year. I had 4 gb of memory, more than all of my previous computers combined. And "resize to 600 pixels wide" locked it up long enough for me to make coffee.
Sent from my iPad On May 14, 2012, at 21:10, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeffery Smith wrote: > >> At the risk of sounding elitist, Windows Vista was the straw that broke it >> for me and sent me to Mac. I know that Mac has the reputation of being the >> computer for people who are too stupid to use Windows, but I've been using >> computers since 1969. Windows 2000 was the last stable version of Windows I >> used, and it is still the default OS at our college because Windows has >> gotten worse ever since. >> >> I have a Dell sitting, unused, in my home office. I tried using it for about >> a month, and got long delays with "Program Not Responding" to the point of >> driving me to drink. It was a top end Dell several years ago, and couldn't >> get out of its own way under Windows Vista. I'll never touch Windows again. > > Good lord, you used Vista? You poor bastard. > I used XP for almost 10 trouble-free years and went to WIndows 7. No > complaints at all. > > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
