I’m writing this from my refurbished laptop. Why am I not writing it from my nice desktop machine? Because I’m a fool and booted into Vista for some gaming.
So far it then spent 45 minutes first installing updates accompanied by symphony of reboots, then spent another half-hour uninstalling the same updates due to some unknown error, again accompanied by aforementioned symphony of reboots.
Now, after the 6th reboot it apparently is attempting to install the previous updates again… We’ll see if it works.
*sigh*
I’m wondering when Microsoft is going to release an OS that doesn’t treat the user like some last-minute afterthought. All I wanted was to play some games, but even in this regard (which in my opinion is the only thing Windows is even remotely capable of) it fails yet again.
So, let’s see… So far Vista has wasted more than an hour of my time because it sucks. In any other situation this would be intolerable, but whenever Microsoft is involved everyone just accepts it.
It can be realy annoying when it replaces the shut down button with “shutdown and install uppdates”, this can result in shutdown (or reboot) taking way longer then you want.. esp if you havent runt winupdate in a while. One thing is good with it though, it forces users to update (a problem with XP boxes).
Im running win7 RC since a month or so back and i like it (suprisingly un-buggy for beta and 0 crashes/bsods), not that i have problems with vista other then some annoyances (all oses got em), win 7 will be a step in the right direction.