Delicious Nothings

A OS By Any Other Name

There’s been a lot of talk about Windows Vista lately.  With the realtive failure, PR wise, of Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment and the general level of supposed consumer dissatisfaction, Windows Vista isn’t having a very good run.

Until recently, I’ve been running Windows XP in Bootcamp/VMWare Fusion on my MacBook.  I’ve had no issues and have been enjoying the freedom that running OS X/Windows has given me.  My only real issue is that by utilizing my bootcamp partition in VMWare, I can’t use the instant on/suspend feature.  Instead I have to wait for XP to do a full start up/shut down anytime I want to use the OS.  Since I only really fire XP up to view a movie or some other file that I can’t read on my Mac, I decided it was time for a change.

I’ve been curious about Vista for a while, so I thought I’d give it a shot.  I bopped down to the store, picked up a copy and decided to install it in it’s own virtual machine sans-Bootcamp.  Installation went smoothly and within an hour I was up and running.  I’ve only had Vista installed for a few days, but I have to say, I’m very pleased.  I haven’t had any real issues and am loving the UI enhancements that Vista brings to the table.  I don’t get any of the fancy Aero functionality, as it’s unavaible while using VMWare, which is a bummer.  But it still looks much more polished than XP.

So at this point, I can say that I think Vista is a victim of it’s own hype machine.  I do believe that it was plagued with problems at launch.  However, it’s been over a year and with the introduction of SP1 I believe that Microsoft has squashed many of the useability bugs that were present.  Maybe things will change, but as of right now, I’m liking it.  Wow…can’t believe I just said I like a Microsoft product.  Oh what’s that?  Hell froze over yesterday.  Oh ok.  Then I guess I can say that.