Posting hiatus, another Windows rant

What a week!
Taxes due, kids on spring break, Nor'easter blowing through and tearing chunks (small, luckily) off of the roof, pen show in Boston this past weekend, and -- perhaps worst of all -- setting up a new laptop for la professoressa preloaded with Windows Vista.

Why, oh why, can't Microsoft leave well enough alone? XP has quite enough bells and whistles, and according to all reports will run like lightning on this model -- which under Vista pokes along at a speed that almost makes me nostalgic for my old CP/M Kaypro. And what I also find difficult to understand is why the look and feel has to change so much from iteration to iteration. Burrowing down through the menus to select "Windows Classic" only gets you partway there. I am particularly annoyed and mystified by the love for fading in and out: aside from using up more system resources, it gives the impression that everything is running underwater. Cleanly snapping on and off makes operations look faster, even if they aren't.

Posted by David on April 17, 2007 10:17 AM