**Jumping off the Microsoft Vista Sinking Ship ..floating off on a MAC

The South Dakota Moderate blogger has had enought of Mr. Gates Microsoft Vista operating system.
SD Moderate gives up on MS Vista

He gave up and bought an Apple Mac.

I have yet to read one good comment of consequence about MS Windows Vista operating system.
It sounds as if it is a system bloated with options nobody needs and that the OS demands system resources beyond the performance of the OS.

I think most of us want a system that can be installed and then keeps running and that allows all e-mail and web browsers to run without problems and can run programs like Irfanview, Quickbooks, text editors, etc. Nothing exotic. Regular OS updates that require powerful new computers or expensive upgrades to function worse than old OS versions are simply revenue generators that show contempt for computer users.

It is time for massive shifts by governments to LINUX and Opensource Office etc. The demands that college students and state employees use Microsoft products add a tremendous amount of expense for students, parents, and taxpayers.

Software developers can do us all a favor by refusing to produce products that require MS Vista. Microsoft also needs to be far less greedy on pricing its office software. Years ago, a functioning up-to-date computer cost 10 times as much as the MS software. Now, the software may cost twice as much as the computer.

**Stay tuned even if you are reading a blog that is edited with a $25 used school surplus computer with Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird-- Doug Wiken

Comments

[tgrindadams]

Vista sucks and blows.

They guy at Microsoft told me so, off the record. It's too big an operating system, sucks waaaay too much memory for the little it's needed, and you crawl at a wounded snail's pace.

When you give them the model number to your computer, they know you got Vista with it and if you take it off, clear everything off, to put on something else, it voids your warranty.

To compensate, they're supposed to be selling Vista with bigger hard drives now, but the program still sucks.

I nominate Wiken to start the computer re-revolution.

[Douglas Wiken]

tgrind, you're back. Check your email.

It will take somebody with a lot more money, influence, and technical knowledge than I have to start or even continue any revolutions.

Vista is the operating system in the spirit of scented toilet paper with irritating dyed pretty images printed on it.

Maybe Hillary and Obama can start the investigations going on computer operating systems. Might save us all more money than the wispy idea of a gas tax holiday which is counterproductive and also insignificant.