Vista, Vista, I loathe thee. Let me count the ways...
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:15AM My old blingmaster XPS laptop - a £4,500 10kg monster of a gaming laptop, is now resigned to being a Vista-based client vpn-access machine. A huge waste of a lovely machine, but there you have it.
As usual, Microsoft update reboots the machine most nights with the pleasant 'we had to fix it, we rebooted, hope you didnt lose anything, loser' message.
A few days ago - what appeared on the scene but Vista Service Pack 2. Nice one. Just what Vista needs - a shedload of fixes. Update away, I merrily clicked.
Ah. Now the damn machine refuses to start. I now have another wasted few hours recovering from this mess.
Is it any wonder I evangelise Macintosh? Do you wonder why I use pictures of Ballmer and Gates on my rifle shooting target ?
Who on earth in Microsoft thinks its a good idea to release service packs that can destroy machines? What complete blithering idiot things this is *cool*. Or desireable?
Bunch of clucking funts.
N.B. I know, I know. Your sitting there wondering how a cool and froody guy like me is running Vista. Yes. Well There's another piece of distended donkey rectum product called Juniper Remote Desktop, which makes a chocolate fireguard look like a robust piece of kit. And it only supports shit operating systems (xp, Vista) and shit browsers (IE6, IE7). I'm not making this up. So I have to keep a steaming pile of turd in my office, else I don't get to work from home.
Reader Comments (5)
What about running Windows 7 ultimate with XP mode? I've been using 7 for several months now - both 64 bit on my work laptop and 32 bit -starter edition on a new netbook and it's pretty solid.
I'm using juniper too mate - I sympathise throughly with you
Ah - Chuck - even that would be a step forward if the XPS I have was 64 bit, or Juniper supported it. Looking forward to not having to use Juniper and/or Vista ever again. Perhaps in a few months.
---* Bill
VMWare on Ubuntu might be the answer? Or similar on the Mac? Snapshots are your friend when running Vista :-)
Yes, can relate!
Vista broke completely twice, just like that!
At least MS make half decent recovery tools. We shouldn't have to be using them though.
Win7 appears to be less fragile, and unlikely to break into a million pieces.