Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Vista Pains

I really wanted to like Vista. When I got my Thinkpad X61 Tablet, it came with Vista installed by default. Ignoring the negative Vista press and applying wild optimism, I was sure that this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Unfortunately, this was not meant to be. Not only that Vista crashes left and right, it is always somebody else's fault: "Problem is caused by Intel Graphics Driver", "Problem is caused by Cygwin", and my all time favorite "This problem is being researched".


The utility may be called "Solve problems on your computer", but in the several months I had Vista, it did not help me find a solution to a single problem. All it really does is allocate blame, elsewhere.

To see how bad things are, here's a report from the performance and reliability monitor.

As you can see by the red markers, almost no day goes by without some sort of a failure. In some days, there are multiple failures. I already started booting to my Ubuntu on most days, but even for my sparse use of windows, I will probably roll back to XP soon.

2 comments:

terpguru said...

After much delibertion and head banging I have decided to move back to XP Professional. Rescue CD is going to come over in 2 days time. My Lenovo laptop is only 1 month old but I feel its has the battle scars of a 100 years.
The idiot engineers in Microsoft should be ashamed of this product.

Eran said...

I don't think they are idiots. The engineers are usually the last ones to blame. I bet you that someone just chose to ignore what the engineers were saying.