Windows Vista & Piracy
Monday, August 27th, 2007Somewhat related to usenet, this is a rant that just needs to come out.
I sure have seen a lot of Windows Vista on usenet. Home edition, premium edition, useless features edition.
Well I just got a computer today that has Vista on it. What a piece of crap! Nice looking Toshiba laptop, beautiful wide screen, supposedly lots of features and Windows Vista installed.
Fire up the machine and it take 45 minutes of start, restart and enter in a few tidbits of information here and there and it’s finally ready for use.
The desktop open up and I’m given windows warnings already. Then the camera software crashes.
Think you’re familiar with windows? If so then Vista has a curve to throw you because while everything might still be there, it is presented differently. Just differently enough that it may cause confusion.
I’ve heard about the issues with high definition media not working properly in Vista due to DRM requirements. This will simply piss my customer off and cause issues for her customers.
So what is this? A laptop or a toilet? I have already instructed my customer to format the device and install a licensed copy of Windows 2000 Professional.
So why is Vista being pirated? It’s a piece of crap. Of course maybe that’s one of the reasons why it’s being pirated. Because no one wants to pay for crap.
/rant
