now it might sounds like i'm trying to defend for Microsoft. I might, but that's not my intention, i'm just trying to show you something you might not see at first.
Windows Vista has to be one of the worst ideas Microsoft has ever had. First off, my laptop is only 5 months old and I still had to upgrade the RAM to be able to run Vista Pro. When I finally did get Vista running up to speed, some of my device drivers were not Vista compatible. Then to top it off, a lot of my games were not compatible with Vista. Why did Microsoft have to make Vista so non-backwards compatible. It might be just me but Vista looks an awful lot like Mac OS 10.4!
first there is no such thing as Vista Pro. There are computer out there now for sale that cannot run Microsoft Vista. It all depend on your own computer's specification. I have a IBM thinkpad from 3 years ago that I can run Vista just fine. Everything is quite smooth.
When technology advances, one downside is what you were using before might not be used in the next system. Some devices might not work with Vista, let along the device driver. Softwares such as device driver and game are made specifically to one operating system. If Vista has a lot of improvement, a lot of code being re-written, inevitably some software, be it driver or other software, will not work. It has nothing to do with whether it's backward compatible or not. (Of course, they could make it backward compatible, but that might cause other problems that you will bitch about).
Another example is this. Can you use RAM from a desktop machine in Mac Pro today? Can you use
any RAM that doesn't have the same specification as Mac Pro's ram, in Mac Pro (or most other computer)? No you cannot. That's how technology works. When it advances, it throw away old technologies. You can also say that Apple is horrible at being backward compatible because non of the macs today have dial up port, and none of the desktop have floppy disks. But that's because technology moves forward.
Heres list for the worst ideas from Microsoft. In Order.
1. Windows ME
2. Windows Vista
3. Windows 98 1st Edition
4. Windows 3.1
5. Windows 95
6. Windows 98 2nd Edition
7. Windows 2000
8. Windows XP
9. Zune
10. Windows Media Player
what's that smell, did you just pull that out of your arse?
that's such a judgmental statement, with no ground to stand on.
At least OS X was something completely new, better justifying the incompatibility.
so when something is not
completely new, it has to be perfectly backward compatible? it's not even as that Vista doesn't work with anything that worked in XP. It worked with most, just not all. Tiger doesn't work with
everything that worked in Panther. Intel mac doesn't work with everything from PPC mac.
get out of your mac box, and there's much MUCH more than just Macs in this world, son.
In my opinion, Vista is a cheap combination of Windows XP and Mac OS. I may have just had bad luck installing it but it felt like one of the most unstable Operating Systems I have ever used. I was running it on an HP laptop with an Intel Core Duo 1.8ghz, 1.5 GB of RAM, 256 GB of Video RAM, 180 GB HD. I had to upgrade the RM from 1 GB to 1.5 GB to get Vista to run a little more stable.
I have a thinkpad t40p from 3 yrs ago, with 512MB of ram, it runs vista perfectly smooth and stable. Sure I might not get some of the cool effect, but for what I do get, I don't need to do any tweaking to make it not crash.
People, grow up. Vista is not a horrible operating system. Every operating system has its own advantage and disadvantage. There are definitely things that Vista has better than OS X, but just because you don't care doesn't mean it's all bad.
