8th May 2006, 1:24 PM
As far as I can tell from what I've been reading, all those great things about Vista that were supposed to make it worth getting are either being pushed to the version of Windows coming AFTER it, or being ported to XP due to their great demand.
Except for the visuals, those should be... shiny...
So why should I bother updating? Security? Turns out MS is trying to update security but is doing it the classic "very annoying and demeaning warning dialog" way.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000571.html
MS, either get these issues fixed or I'm just not going to bother buying your new OS. It's too expensive to justify that sort of money on it, and since you seem to be planning on releasing an XP version of things like the Windows Defender, IE7, and DirectX10 anyway, my future games are going to be working just fine in XP anyway.
Except for the visuals, those should be... shiny...
So why should I bother updating? Security? Turns out MS is trying to update security but is doing it the classic "very annoying and demeaning warning dialog" way.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000571.html
MS, either get these issues fixed or I'm just not going to bother buying your new OS. It's too expensive to justify that sort of money on it, and since you seem to be planning on releasing an XP version of things like the Windows Defender, IE7, and DirectX10 anyway, my future games are going to be working just fine in XP anyway.
"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)