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When Vista was just coming out, I bagged on it.  Badly.  I kept Vista off our computers for a very long time.  I let Shanin give it a shot on her HP laptop (it came installed with Vista Home Premium), but we both remained unconvinced that this OS was ready for the primetime, and I “upgraded” to XP SP2. I know that there are plenty of arguments for Vista (the programs weren’t out for it yet, the drivers weren’t out for it yet, etc.), but I kept hating Vista.

But when faced with getting a new laptop, I didn’t really want to deal with uninstalling Vista, finding XP drivers, and installing XP.  Plus, I knew that Vista was now into Service Pack 1, so I figured I’d give it a sporting chance.  It took a bit of preparation, as the laptop I was receiving was Home Premium (same as Shanin’s), so I wouldn’t be able to use domain names.  This was unfortunate as I had a Windows domain (based on a Linux box running Samba) and everything was set up well and was working mostly fine.  But after lots of reconfiguring, transferring files, setting up options, etc., I have to say that I’m mostly glad I made the transition to Vista. keep reading “Ten things I hate to love about Windows Vista”

But so are other operating systems. Of course, it would help if there was a way for you to turn on your computer and it loads a web browser instead of an OS, but while I’m wishing, I’d like a pony.

I was browsing around and found a great blog posting outlining how to get rid of most of your desktop applications. Further, as long as you have an internet connection, you can access your documents and everything from any computer. Also, since websites regularly back up their data (some do it hourly!) and use best practices to reduce failure and file corruption, you pretty much don’t have to worry about problems with your data.

keep reading “It’s official: Windows is obsolete!”