Vista

BSOD, Toronto, here.

Ah, the joys of modern technology. It's been about six months since I got myself a laptop and migrated over - in fact, I wouldn't say migrated, as such, would say was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced over to - Windows Vista.

Who would've ever thought that in the year 2008, I'd be able to type words on a keyboard and then see them

slowly

appear

o n e

b y

o n e

over half a minute or so? technology is wonderful.

Even more so when I spend quite literally minutes at a time seeing an hourglass over a greyed out screen whilst the machine tells me that the programme is 'not responding'. I'm not alone.

In effect, what Vista has done is taken a computer, and broken its legs with bloated code and unneccessary additions. Additions that some computing marketing spod somewhere no doubt thinks is cool but makes such pointless things as Ctrl+Tabbing through various screens, opening Windows, checking the volume controls, starting Word, watching Real Player, or even using Windows Explorer to search for files are reduced to wading through computing treacle. So much so I've switched all my visual codes and themes to a recreation of Windows Classic, as much as I can in Vista, anyway.

Even my Spectrum 48k was faster.
- posted by Mark @ 5:30 pm