Jan-Piet Mens

A quote from The Bear's Lair:

As for Vista, it’s a disaster. Microsoft’s decision to construct Vista by add-on, without removing the redundancies and bugs that had bedeviled its previous software, is reminiscent of the Detroit of the late 1960s, which gave the world such triumphs as the Ford Pinto, of the exploding gas-tank. Vista, which is exceptionally sluggish to load and causes all sorts of backward-compatibility problems with its predecessor operating systems is an excess of costs, with few benefits, imposed on consumers who may now have an alternative available in the modernized and strengthened Linux.

It gets better

Further, Microsoft’s announcement that it will no longer wait five years to launch a new operating system, but will in the future impose the huge harassments of system transfer on its customers every two years is likely to make its operating systems history within the next half-decade. Vista will not even be remembered with the faint nostalgia of the Ford Edsel, which was at least attractive.

Thanks, Nic.