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Try not to vote if you haven’t used Vista…
What do you think of Microsoft’s latest operating system? Before I had any experience with it, I was skeptical. I had heard all these rumors about instability, too many bugs, inefficiency, etc, especially that it was basically Mac OS X. Because of that, I stayed away from it. I was content with a properly-executed XP installation; why should I switch? The only reason I had ever been told was: “DirectX 10. It’s coming…” and that hardly seemed reason enough to upgrade my memory, CPU, and everything in general (plus spending $200+ on the OS itself).
I hadn’t really experienced it until I got a laptop that had it installed. Sure, it looked fancy and everything, but the resolution was too low for it to actually work, and it was eating up a lot of my precious memory. So I tried disabling everything, and as it turned out, that looked like crap. And the only reason I would choose Windows over Linux would be for gaming, but it wasn’t like I could do that on such hardware as is typically found in laptops. So I installed Ubuntu over the whole drive and was done with it.
I give Vista a seven out of ten. Hats off for trying, Microsoft, but you did a better job with XP.