I reinstalled Windows Vista today in hopes that many of the problems it had were resolved by service pack 1. Apparently there were changes; how they’ve helped the operating system I don’t know. The system seemed faster initially except that there are pauses now when I use certain applications. I doubt Microsoft did this on purpose but this was probably cause by their lack of openness when it comes to Vista and software development. The mouse will work fine except for random pauses that last a mere second or two which happens only in Vista, not Windows XP. This also happens on the keyboard, especially when working in Firefox, I ?ve had to resort to writing this post in Microsoft Word because the pausing would be so bad that I would backspace to fix punctuation and it would think that I held backspace down and wipe out entire sentences. There ?s nothing worse than trying to bitch about how bad Vista is and having it screw with you the entire time.
I also deal with a lot of data recovery. I ?ll have students bring down their laptops to be worked on which will involve transferring data from their hard drivers using hard drive kits. In the past with XP I ?d plug the hard drive in and start the data transfer, usually no problems at all. Now with Vista it won ?t let me touch their ?My Docs ?, ?Favorites ?, and ?Desktop. ? I could see this as a good security precaution, except that all I need to do is to take ownership (multiple times since it can ?t get it right the first time) and then transfer their information before whipping the systems.
Maybe I ?m seeing it all wrong though, maybe since I ?ve seen so many operating systems across multiple platforms and have seen what can be done that I ?ve realized what Vista is. Maybe it ?s something similar to the movie ?The Matrix ? in that I want to go down the rabbit hole and get the hell out of Microsoft ?s world but I can ?t, there ?s too many things that are holding me back, too many people that don ?t understand that there is no real benefit to ?Windows. ? It ?s nothing but a standard that was created by Microsoft that they just won ?t leave alone; they keep creating new hoops (operating systems) that they want people to jump through. Each hoop is even fierier than the last, each one more deadly and dangerous.
I ?m just rambling (and bitching) ?.God I hate Microsoft Vista.
