Made the Switch to VistaFiled Under: Announcements, Life

I know I stated in the last blog that I wouldn’t return until next year, but I have sometime, why not do a little blogging I thought.

Switching to Vista wasn’t a choice per say, sort of just ended up that I am using it (after a long complicated situation)…but the switch has been surprisingly…good. Vista has simplified quite a few of the things which one couldn’t necessarily point out, but make an awful lot of sense. On the surface, Vista is largely the same exact thing as XP…if you have used Vista, there isn’t really much to adapt to…its basically the same. Vista’s visual aspect is top notch, you can edit the look of it easily with the click of a few buttons. We see that all the icons are quite fancy and glossy. Glossy is the perfect word do describe Vista actually. You can tell the designers behind Vista spent loads of time refining the design aspect of XP. Everything has subtle details that while not necessarily noticeable on the immediate surface the details are indeed there. I would rate my current Vista experience a 8/10, while Vista is an improvement over XP, it should have been even better. Microsoft had quite a few years to develop Vista, but it simply isn’t a big enough of an improvement from their last OS. Hopefully Microsoft realizes that they better deliver with their next OS, or else they will lose even more customers to the growing competitors of Mac and Linux.