Vista suck so bad meh?

I may not be a full on techie or a geek, but frankly I don't think it's fair that Vista's been getting a lot of flack for, of all things, being nothing like XP (well, DUH). It supposedly sucks so bad that Dell's giving their customers a choice to downgrade back to XP. How can you say something like that before you've used it, even for a little bit? I'm not just saying that just because I use Vista at home and I'm all for moving forward. I get that not every single game, program and application are not compliant with Vista (yet) and the different versions of Vista are not cheap - then again, what Microsoft or Windows product is?

Even people who have not used it say that it sucks, but when told that it wasn't called Vista, they thought it was pretty great (the Mojave experiment).

Microsoft has already mentioned that Vista is more resource intensive than XP - however, I couldn't help but notice that the people that say Vista sucks run it on the bare minimum 512 MB or 1GB RAM, which OF COURSE IS NOT ENOUGH LAH! It takes 2GB, which is pretty standard in most new Vista loaded computers these days. Even if it's not, you could upgrade it yourself.

I don't know if people are getting the message that like Windows 95, 98 and the rest, but XP is gonna join them in some years when Microsoft stops giving consumers updates and that they should either get used to Vista, switch to Linux or get a Mac.

To counter the bad press, Microsoft launched a new ad campaign recently to match the Mac vs PC ads, spending $300 million dollars and hiring Jerry Seinfeld for $10 million. Why Seinfeld, I really don't know. The first TV spot was out recently and here's the video for the benefit of the lazy...



There's also a new one that's four and a half minutes long - but it's three and a half minutes too long for me.


There's plenty of mixed reactions ("the ad about nothing") to it. Frankly, I'm indifferent to both the message or the delivery, because it wasn't trying to sell anything, not blatantly anyway. Hearing the tech podcasts go on about it has been pretty interesting - this week's TWiT (This Week in Tech) tried deciphering the "symbols" in the ad, which is not a bad attempt.