You may have be wondering why I have no spellcheck. It’s because I just upgraded to Vista… and I hate it.
I had to install the program twice because I wanted to first wipe my hard drive. It was a hassle and a half… Make that two hassles. Second, to get my WiFi to work (my house has a wireless network) I had to install the the driver application (which caused an error on the operating sytem) extract the drivers from the installed program, uninstall it, and then reinstall the USB WiFi using just the drivers (not the who package). Again, I hated every minute of it.
Then I tried to install FireFox. It did not work – I got some sort of error.
I was so irritated that I started to look up ways to run XP and Vista and I asked myself why the hell would I want to do that? Why all the trouble?
Sure, the fluidity of the operating system is great. I love the fading in and out of the windows. I love the widgets. I love how things swoosh around and how I can look at multiple windows at the same time. I love how this operating system runs exactly like a Mac. Hmmmm. Why don’t I just switch?
If you are contemplating spending the $200 or $400 on the new operating system, don’t. My friend is in Computer Science and Microsoft gives them free copies for some reason (maybe that’s why it’s so expensive for the rest of us?). He refused to install it and gave it to me. Now I understand why.
Sorry for the short post. I have to re-install Windows XP.
If you are looking for something to do, here are some outrageous YouTube videos:
UPDATE:
Ok, so I never actually got around the deleting Vista… and now that I’ve used it for a while I have started to really like it. The way everything fades in and out is really nice, and I did notice some performance improvements. If the upgrade was, I don’t know, $49 I would recommend upgrading. Since I got mine for free (legally), I lucked out. All-in-all, I am now a fan.
