Andy Rathbone is one of today's best-selling computer book writers, with more than 15 million copies of his books in print. In addition to authoring ?Windows Vista for Dummies,? he wrote ?Windows XP for Dummies,? ?Window 98 for Dummies? and many other popular titles.
For more than a year, I poked and prodded my way through hundreds of Windows Vista menus and dialog boxes. But after I finished writing ?Windows Vista For Dummies? and ?Upgrading and Fixing PCs For Dummies,? I turned off my Vista PC.
On the rare occasion I fire it up to double-check a few settings, Vista constantly reminds me why I?ve never installed it on my main PC. Let me count just a few of the ways:
He makes some good observations and I pretty much agree with him. At the same time all of those things he just listed could mean absolutely nothing to someone else.
I'm not a Vista fan, really. That being said, I love XP. I probably won't upgrade from XP until I have to. And will I get Vista? I doubt it. I'll probably get a Mac or go with some Linux distribution .
I'll probably get a Mac or go with some Linux distribution .
That's becoming a more recent statement by tons of people before and after the Vista release. I'd love to see a big poll done by a news site such as CNET or Fox News (no MSNBC because they'd probably sugar coat it saying Vista is wonderful) to see who would stay with Microsoft and who would migrate elsewhere.
That's becoming a more recent statement by tons of people before and after the Vista release.
Yep. Won't go to vista till I absolutely have to. Spending time now, figuring how to just keep XP running at this level of efficiency when MS abandons it. If I can do that efficiently, Vista will not happen.
Yep. Won't go to vista till I absolutely have to. Spending time now, figuring how to just keep XP running at this level of efficiency when MS abandons it. If I can do that efficiently, Vista will not happen.
Well MS has said they are supporting XP untill 2014, so maybe the next OS will already be out by then.