21st October 2007, 8:55 PM
I like as BC as I can reasonably get. Personally I don't see Vista as any real step forward at all. What exactly does it DO aside from sit there and look pretty? I've ready the under the hood stuff, about speedy searching (like that's something to write home about, ooh look my searches take 10 seconds less time) and a rewritten kernal, which while nice doesn't really affect me as a user. DirectX 10 is there, but seriously that could have been worked into XP, it just wouldn't be able to do anything with the desktop, but again, that's just an eye candy argument. What does it DO for me?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)