D3 - Devise Design Develop

I know it’s the ‘cool thing’ to do nowadays to rag on Microsoft and their new operating system Vista but is it really that bad? I recently bought a new computer that came with Vista Home Premium and although I have had a few issues here and there I’ve been pretty happy with it overall. I’m digging the Aero interface and added security and think it’s been running pretty smoothly. Sure it takes some extra ram to run but when I get a warning from my computer that it caught some spyware I think it’s well worth it.

Maybe it’s the programmer in me that feels for them but it’s such an impossibly huge task to follow up the (i’m assuming) largest most used program ever with something even better. I don’t care how big the teams are that develop it, there’s bound to be mistakes, it’s how those mistakes are rectified that matters to me. So the next time you talk down Vista because it takes a few seconds longer to boot or something doesn’t run right, try to put yourself in their shoes and be a little more understanding, or switch back to XP or Linux. Either way quit blogging about it, I’m sick of reading about how disappointed/angry/frustrated people are with Vista when there’s no shortage of alternatives.