TAG | The Vista SP1 saga: the best ad for Mac and Linux yet? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 21 February 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 It’s patently obvious that Vista SP1 has been incredibly badly handled. After the debacle that was Vista in the first place, how come Microsoft hasn’t learned to be ‘super’ careful about their updates? They are playing with people’s business computers, their home computers and their study computers – they’re playing with and stuffing up people’s digital lives. I know that the people working on Vista SP1 aren’t doing this on purpose, or at least, I hope not. But these kinds of stuff ups are really causing people to lose trust in Microsoft, damaged as it already has been with all that has happened with Vista before, during and after its launch. Now I’m a Vista user. I’ve installed the two pre-SP1 updates, and didn’t experience any problems. I’m even looking forward to installing SP1 when it is available, although I’ll be reading reviews and reports before I actually allow it to install. And I use Vista and Office every day, among a stack of other free and commercial software. I even like Vista, a lot, much preferring it to XP. But really, Apple and Linux people should be jumping over the moon at these continual, comedic, tragic, shambolic stuff ups by Microsoft. Microsoft is being their own worst enemy here, and they shouldn’t be surprised if this whole affair convinces quite a few people yet to upgrade to Vista to just forget it, and either go with a Mac, give one of the flavours of Linux a try, or go back to using an abacus. I’m hardly saying that Macs and Linux are perfect – they have their own problems too. But Microsoft has the world’s most visible operating system. Extra special super-duper care and even longer beta cycles on the widest range of hardware needs to be tested, or this is going to happen again, and again, and again. Can Microsoft afford that? I don’t think so. Congratulations, Microsoft. While many have said this for years already, the last three weeks have truly shown that the best advertisement for switching to a Mac or trying Linux is you. Don’t be surprised if plenty more people suddenly find themselves tipped over the edge from your actions – and living a Microsoft-free life.
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