Gotta say, "Amen Brother Bubby!" Of course, you all know the standard cliche - don't bother to upgrade to the next Windows at least until the first Service Pack arrives. Obviously, that's a little unfair. I mean, it's not as if Apple doesn't release a LOT of mods to every OS release. And few, if any, new Linux versions are lacking significant bugs right out of the box. But, I believe the standard suspicion about MS. That is that they've rushed every new version out before it was even close to being ready. On the other hand, maybe the initial good reports on 7 reflect the fact that Bill's retired. I saw parts of an interview lately (my stomach could only stand so much) where he said he was only coming in once a week to consult. Maybe that means he'll only screw up one project at a time. I'm one of those who believe there are plenty of great people in Redmond who could produce high quality stuff if only The Evil One, and his toadie minions, would leave them alone. Perhaps the last word on that should come from the 7 Beta site itself, "It can be glitchy—so don't use a PC you need every day." Gee, thanks!
That being said, I'm using Vista and haven't added SP1, yet. That's partly because of a minor OEM problem that I haven't gotten around to fixing, yet. Oh well, "One of these days...." But I've seen good things about SP1, Whabbit, so maybe you'll get more satisfaction this time.
Now to be a complete boor, I gotta say, "I told you so." Well, probably to nobody here, but in general. Anybody that was hoping that MS would roll back all the Vista development and just release a shiny new XP were fooling themselves. For one thing, to take the most pessimistic view of Vista, that would require MS to admit they made a huge mistake. That wasn't going to happen. ME is not a good example. MS didn't kill ME because it was a dog. They'll killed it because it was a DOS based dog, and they were planning to terminate that blood line, anyway. And they never really were planning on taking ME far into the new Millenium. It was just the typical Bill trick of releasing a new OS to con more people into buying something they didn't need. As Fubar wisely put it in the StarBurn comments section, MS gets most of it's money from OEM installations. Which I assume means new OSs will be released anytime the profit reports start to lag. Whether they (or we) are ready or not.
Having said all that, here I am downloading 7. Doing some beta testing of it might help me impress somebody at that hoped for new IT job. Now all I have to do is decide whether to use it virtually, or finally get over my fear that I'll screw up the repartitioning. After all, it is the computer I "need every day".
