Vista is like this

My four year old laptop finally packed in around March, forcing me to invest in a new computer. I had intended to wait for Windows 7 but unfortunately fate decided to intervene. However, I took a little solace from knowing that Windows 7 was just around the corner. I figured I could bear Vista long enough to hold out until 2010, by which time Windows 7′s teething troubles should be worked out, and I should be flush enough to buy a really good system. Well it’s been 3 months and 7 days since I bought this Vista laptop and it’s slowed to a crawl. Even when I have nothing running the OS is sluggish and unresponsive. So I’m going to backup/format/reinstall, and get back to a clean system. I could get XP to last 2 years between reinstalls, and it would stay fast and responsive for me. I keep right control over what programs run at startup, and I’m particularly fussy about what runs on my machine, so I’m having a hard time working out where the slowdown is coming from. I’m guessing it’s just a simple case of Vista is shit. Plain and simple. Microsoft bragged that their operating system took as much effort to create as it did to put man on the moon. Well, at least the people who put a man on the moon have something to show for it. In fact the people who put a man on the moon have pushed humanity into a new paradigm. Humans as a species have now walked on two worlds, we are no longer a race bound to one tiny spec in the cosmos, but we have taken our first baby steps into the vast infinity of our beautiful universe. Microsoft, took all that effort and wasted it on an Operating System that grinds to a halt after 3 months of normal use. Windows Vista, is the greatest triumph, in the history of engineering disasters. It is a marvel of wasted effort. It was named Vista to inspire thoughts of views and landscapes, and the vast possibilities of the technological lanscape but in the reality is very different. Vista starts off like a beautiful cottage with large windows opening up to stunning vistas of pristine scenery – and as you use it the windows are slowly bricked up until at last it has become a thing of concrete.