OH NO .... I have to use Vista at work

[Michael Hipp]

Michael Fakaro wrote:
> Now after a crash course in Vista ... many of Windows old problems maybe
> a thing of the past (Freezing, blue screen of death etc....)

Windows has made some improvements in stability, that's true. But it's got a 
long way to go to be comparable to Linux. BSOD is still a very common problem 
- tho the reasons for it are different than in the days of Win9x. Windows XP 
routinely corrupts its own filesystem and becomes unbootable. (You wouldn't 
believe how many instances of that I see in my shop.) Sometimes it's 
repairable, sometimes its not.

Windows is the premier best-of-breed malware honeypot. Nothing beats it. 
That's one thing MS has done really, really well.

In (cough) fairness to MS, a lot of Windows problems can be traced to the 
Dungware like Symantec/Norton or McAfee that the greedsters at places like 
Dell ship on every system. Windows improves a lot once you remove the cruft.

Problem with Vista is that it's a v0.01 product. In a year or two after SP2 it 
may become usable. I won't touch it until then.

Michael