David Unleashed

So by now you should know that I love my Mac.  That said, every now and again I find myself forced to make that odd PC purchase.  I just purchased a Vaio; incidentally I think that Sony makes the best PC laptop–if you ever find yourself needing a PC-based system.  I needed to purchase this PC for my pilot because the update software for my airplane navigation equipment needs a PC to run its updater program.

Anyway, the laptop came with Vista pre-installed so there you go.  I have now purchased my first and probably last Vista system.  (I read yesterday that XP is still outselling Vista.  I understand why this might be true after spending a day with Vista.)

The interface is awful.  I don’t know how else to say it.  It is as if they subjected their focus groups to a bunch of crap and instructed them to pick the less crappy interface.  Perhaps if Microsoft would have put as much work into the code of Vista as they did to redesigning their interface they would have a decent OS.  I did open up the new version of Office and must say that their new ribbon system is pretty cool looking although I question the wisdom in making such dramatic changes to an interface that people had become very familiar with.  I am still waiting for Apple to come out with a decent Office type suite, by the way.

My point is this.  The other interface “worked”.  I knew where everything was.  Now I have to learn a new OS.  Nothing is where you would intuitively think to look.  The Programs? Huh?

Bottom line; the release of Vista could have been the best thing to happen to OSX since the MacBook Pro.