ACER: Windows Vista Did Nothing for the PC Industry

Ha! Never in the history of the PC industry has put so much hope into something that has taken so long to grow and yet did nothing for anything useful for the PC user.

Face it! HP/Dell/ACER + other brands of PC not mentioned here. The PC companies are starting to become white good producers. No amount of Operating System power can change the fact that the pinnacle of what PC can do has somehow shown in the windows XP...perhaps even, I dare do say, Windows 98 SE if not for FAT32.

Windows XP as I have said when Windows ME came along a long time ago that a consumer based OS that uses the NTFS would prove to be much more robust and the prediction is a dead ringer as I have experienced much lesser problems for the PC and 5 years later it is going strong.

Now back to Windows Vista. For all it is worth mentioning countless times, it is the numerous versions that kills the cash cow. Honestly why deprive so many consumers from getting the best of vista especially the hard disk encryption? Ultimate version is still the best but it costs a bomb...and the best is not necessary what people need. This is more acute when applied to a Singaporean mind: If I want to spend, might as well get the best.

Pity that the best is expensive and gives nothing more than 'better' security and eye candy; when comparing with the reliability of XP that works well with virtually anything thrown at it, it is really a no brainer to choose XP that is cheaper robust and has lesser problems when one get the service pack and the necessary FREE software to plug security holes.

All in all, the collective effort plus cost in putting up Windows XP is much much lower than using Vista. Need I say about the countless complains about Vista incompatibility issues?

And I do have another analogy. Imagine your car is the Operating System and windows XP is a everyday japanese sedan car that is light yet zippy and Vista is one of those continental cars that is sturdy but much heavier. So the engine is the processor. I guess I need not to go deeper into which scenario will give better mileage.

So I put my Core2Duo with 2GB RAM with my Windows XP. Yes the RAM would not be fully utilised that I myself would know well. But at least I am using an OS that will be running the computer at full speed with a lot of resources to spare. The same rig would no doubt cut the performance down. To me it is a no brainer.

Right now MS says they are coming with OS 7 or SEVEN. I wonder what is up their sleeves but if they are going to use AERO as the selling point again, it ain't going anywhere.

Let me tell you what is the selling point I want to see: Hassle free, crash free and junk free PC with easy parts installation with out the installation process. Sounds tough? Yes it is but the lesser the user has to be asked to install something the simpler. That would be the OS to look for....oh yeah...it already existed....in a MAC.

Better buck up...Apple is doing everything right at the moment.