Vista’s not exactly Micro$oft Bob, but it’s vying for position to edge Windows Muppet Edition and DOS 4 out of top spots for Micro$oft’s worst OS offerings.
Oh, yeh, it’s got some nice eye candy and some neat features, but it’s measurably slower than XP and has been plagued by driver issues that have “bricked” more than a few computers. (Which is why many have “upgraded” their Vista machines to XP… even though that is not, IMO, the best of Micro$oft’s operating system offerings. YYMV, of course.)
And here comes Vista SP1 (lately the credo of savvy computer users has evolved from “Microsoft early buyers: shrink-wrap beta testers” to “NEVER buy a Me$$y$oft product before the first service pack!” *heh*)… which some tests show is slower in file copy operartions than pre-SP1 Vista and which “fixes” the driver issues by… making them worse?
*heh*
Still, if you’re a glutton for punishment, Windows Vista SP1 can be officially downloaded NOW – but don’t do it! outlines how to download the 1.13GB update (only available at this time as a pack including both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, along with some “fixes” for the installation process–read for “fixes,” “new processes that may well break something else” *heh*)… if you dare.
Oh, what the heck. Here’s the direct download link, but let me repeat, “Don’t Do It!” 😉
You have been warned.
Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, A Newt One, Conservative Cat, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
OS 10.5 actually has been very stable, sans the two incremental updates.
Just one point, how long has Vista been out and it is just now getting a service pack?
Whereas 10.5 has only been out since October and it has been updated twice already. : )
By the way thanks for commenting at my blog. Just not sure where I stand on McCain yet, but Obamanites hoisting the Che flag does help clarify the situation somewhat ; )
Mach,
Oh, Vista’s been “updated” at least monthly–sometimes more often–since its release. (Don’t conflate the incremental updates from Apple and Me$$ySoft SPs–or major updates like this newest from Apple.) It’s just that… Me$$ySoft rushed the thing out the door, axed most of the substantive improvements it’d promised (because of feature creep–read, “bloat”–in gewgaws n jimcracks n “Ooo! Shiny!” bubblegum stuff that is a breeze to skin in Linux or BSD GUIs–OSX excepted *heh*) and sold it as something it was not… quite.
I take back what I said in the post. It is as bad as Microsoft Bob, though not as bad as DOS 4, about the same as Win Me (which had some nice features, don’t get me wrong, just put together in a shabby, rush-out-the-door, gotta-milk-some-cash-cows kinda way. *sigh* Funny thing: Win98SE “patched” with dfeatures from Me and 2000–and even a few from XP–is a robust, stable OS. Still not my fav–if I can use “fav” and any M$ product in the same sentence w/o snorting my beer up my nose–Windoze ver, but close.).
One thing I like about using the various open source ‘nixes is that the pressure to rush new versions out for cash is not so much there. *heh* Had an external drive become corrupted and used some ‘nix recovery software on the (Windoze file formatted) thing. Funnier thing: easier time having the thing even recognized connected to the BSD comp than the Windoze comp it was detailed to.
And so it goes.
On other topic:
McCain (Juan MexiCain) is a snake. He has a well-cultivated (and false) reputation for “straight-shooting”… but shooting straight lies and treason doesn’t fit so well with his other well-cultivated image as a “war hero” (an image some few of my friends who served in the same places and times as he bristle at).
You see where Duncan Hunter endorsed the guy who wants us to think God has him on speeddial? *feh* We’ll see…