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I must admit i am yet to actually load vista, but from what I have read and studied its not all that different. The shells may change but under the hood much is the same and there is even similarity to Unix, Linux and due to the BSD base it is also similar to the current MAC OS. I have always run every MS os release from beta, to rtm to final. But this time I just skipped it. To busy still supporting Win2k and WinXP. I like WinXP, I liked Win2k i find nothing really to bad with it. You must think not from an expert level but from a user perspective and useablity. My mates started to move to Vista and as I am there call for help guy i have had to troubleshoot blind (not knowing the screens and menus etc). This is why i like to always run from beta to final, so i can guide people over the phone and know exactly what button press leads to what. But even blind i have managed the toughest of questions without much hassle, largely due to expected similarity to XP Google is my friend. In the next week or so I am going to upgrade my work laptop to Vista and run the work SOE in vmware, that way I can work and test. I only need the work SOE for remote access and email and few business apps so a vm will do for that.
All systems have bugs, and all system become stable over time. The market today demands deadlines with bugs included. If I was pessimistic i would say that commercial apps live of the the bugs so they can provision maintaince dollars. But i know better. In all lines of work I have seen people are pushed to meet deadlines, and of course that just facilitates bugs. No system is void of these. Thats just a commercial reality, making a system perfect is not commercially viable. It would never get released.
I like Linux, I like Mac OS but Windows earns me my bread and butter, because it has market share. Thats reality. Vista is out there, it will get better as time goes by, its the way it is.
Regards
Fahim
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