Chris Pirillo won’t recommend Windows Vista
At my friend Rob Fahrni’s blog he linked to an article by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame where Chris basically says:
Do I recommend Windows Vista? Not a snowball’s chance in… I’m waiting on Apple to release Mac OS X Leopard. As far as I’m concerned at this point, Microsoft is taking a huge hit. The future of Windows, in my opinion, is inside a Virtual Machine or BootCamp on a Mac.
I posted a comment on Rob’s site. As I finished the comment I realized that it was a blog post in its own right. So here are my feelings on Vista. I’ve tried to run Vista on two separate occasions.
The first (a week long period) I ran it to prove to myself that I didn’t like it. I proved myself correct. I couldn’t stand the UAC always popping up, my laptop battery life was cut in half due to the default Aero Glass interface, and things just didn’t work the same as they did in Windows XP.
The second (a two week period) I ran Vista to prove that it could work in a business environment. I had Vista Enterprise edition, Office 2007 Professional. Again the UAC drove me nuts, even when I set myself as a local administrator. The two straws that broke this camel’s back were I had to install McAfee 8.5 instead of the 7.1 version that I like. Virus Scan Enterprise 7.1 isn’t Vista compatible. The other straw was that Track-It 7 (trouble ticket software) wouldn’t install at all. Other minor things like always having to run my command prompt in admin mode, and running Internet Explorer in admin mode to get ToonTown Online running for my daughter. NONE of Vista’s "security measures" are worth two cents if you have to run apps in admin mode.
I’m a "computer professional". I use Windows XP every day, and manage Windows desktops and servers every day. I’m no average user, but I do insist that my computer operate 100% of the time with the tools that I need to do my job. I just can’t do that with Microsoft’s new operating system.
Is a Mac in my future? I think so. I’m going to start saving up for a MacBook Pro with either Parallels or Fusion so I can run XP.