Recently I had the experience of working on Microsoft’s new version of Windows, Vista. I was a PC user until about three years ago when I made the switch to an Apple ibook. I remember when I first purchased a new laptop with Windows XP on it, I was so impressed, it could do this, […]
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My Take on Microsoft Vista

May 23rd 2008 by

Recently I had the experience of working on Microsoft’s new version of Windows, Vista. I was a PC user until about three years ago when I made the switch to an Apple ibook.

I remember when I first purchased a new laptop with Windows XP on it, I was so impressed, it could do this, it could do that… I was amazed. Then time passed and I learned more and more about Macs and thought that these machines are far more cool! After deliberation, I made the switch from PC to Mac. To tell you the truth I panicked at first, thinking to myself, I spent this much money on something that I can’t use! About a week later, the panic wore off and I haven’t looked back. Until yesterday!

Yesterday I played on a fairly new PC laptop that came with Vista installed on the system. It took a few moments to get adjusted, but like riding a bike, I was able to balance and do everything I use to be able to do on the PC.

I know what you are thinking – has she converted again? PC to Mac back to PC? No way. I said I haven’t looked back and I haven’t. I was so incredibly frustrated on the new Vista, everything I tried to do didn’t seem to work. All I wanted was to connect the PC to my wireless network, I have connect previously with a Windows XP to my Airport Extreme network, didn’t seem to have any troubles, but Vista wouldn’t. I had to turn to google to find an answer and after some time (and sifting through several webpages) I came across a detailed solution and I was able to pull files from the Vista machine to my wonderful MacBook. But atlas, my problems were not over! The few video files I wanted to pull from the PC, simple .avi files (my digital camera records .avi files and I read them perfectly fine in iphoto/quicktime), apparently did not copy over with the file properties, so all that played were white screens. Back to google. Oh did I mention how long it look to transfer files – WAY TOO LONG!

Needless to say my experience with Microsoft Vista was rather poor and it’s moments like this we all should experience to know how much we really need to appreciate the stability and ease of use that Apple computers provide.

What’s your take on Vista?… Or dare I ask!? 🙂

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