Windows Vista Ultimate

[compilerbitch]

First impressions:

Utter pile of crap.

Avoid.

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist several hours to consistently fail to even be able to download a file. Yes, you heard it. I've spent several hours attempting to download, er, a file. I'll say one thing for it: it's secure. But then, leaving my machine turned off is secure, too, and equivalently functional.

Buy. A. Mac. Instead.

Really.

Comments

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I need windoze because of several bits of software that I can't really avoid. At work, I have 4 computers, 3 of which run Linux, 1 runs Windows (for similar reasons). At home, I have 3 machines, all of which run Windows, sadly.

Actually, Vista seems reasonably OK *if and only if you turn its security off*. With it on it's basically unusable, so it gains the equivalent-of-being-powered-down security (and usefulness) award. With it off, you've basically got something largely equivalent to XP Pro, as best I can tell. I can live with that.