Windows Vista Coming Together
Saw a computerworld.com article about the latest build of Windows Vista that details how some of the rough spots are getting ironed out. I won’t quote the whole thing, and just recommend you take a read if you have any interest in Vista.
I’ve been using Vista on my desktop machine at work for daily use for a couple of months now and have to say I really like it. May sound like heresy, but I’m a dual-platform guy – run both Macs and PCs at home for different purposes. In my opinion, Vista has done a great job of cleaning up a lot of the Windows UI, interface issues, and overall stability. There are a lot of nice little things that just “work” the way you’d expect they should – strongly reminds me of OS X in that way. What I’m most excited about is that in spite of all these changes, you still feel at home. The good parts of that PC heritage we’ve all grown up with are still there. You still have a File Explorer, but it’s much cleaner and easier to use. You still have ways to connect to networks, but it’s a lot more obvious what you’re doing, and why. And you still have all of those Windows games to play (which is an unfortunate weakness of the Macintosh right now).
Anyway, check out the article if you’re curious. I don’t have any special insight into the Windows team and their schedule, but I can say the Vista builds we’re using now are stable and very usable for day-to-day work. Feels like we’re almost there!
Oh, and for the record, my current dream machine (and the next machine I’ll be getting) will be the next revision of the MacBook Pro, running both Windows Vista and OS X Leopard (ideally virtualized, just as Parallels allows you to do).
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