Falling into the Vista trap

Found on BBC News on Thursday, 01 March 2007
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I had read somewhere that a Vista installation would take 20 minutes. Not if you upgrade from XP.

After three-and-a-half hours of churning, at long last the Vista logo filled my screen.

Where was the internet? I could see my router, but nothing beyond - even after a full day of tinkering with various network wizards.

Why did my Philips webcam refuse to work? The Upgrade Advisor had explicitly said it would.

I find myself caught in the Vista trap. Quite apart from the pain of having to reinstall XP, I do like Vista.

I've had two Vista crashes so far - not a blue but a black screen - and that really shouldn't happen. I can't even remember my last XP crash.

And everywhere I look, there are blogs and forums full of people who have problems with software drivers and suffer the poor customer support of the hundreds of hardware and software vendors that make up the Windows ecosystem.

My experiences with Vista are similar (as a bystander, no way I'd install it in the next years). It takes ages to upgrade an XP machine, and Nero failed to work (Alcohol however does it easily). Plus, all the security popups are really annoying. Now it has been replaced with Ubuntu which also comes with an Aero-like desktop. It's free and not as resource hungry.