Welcome to the WOW WTF?

It's been a great year for software, computing and the Internet.

Except however, if your Microsoft.

Amongst many, many things that have not went well for them recently, the item in discussion here is Windows Vista. [In all of its overpriced and many, many flavors] Five years in development, almost the same in billions of dollars spent in research & development, and don't even mention the advertising budget. All for the spectacular damp squib that was the release of Windows Vista.

Sure this isn't breaking news, and plenty of sites exist listing all the many things wrong with this operating system, but being the 'computer guy' for my family and some friends, I've had it with trying to get anything working as it should on Vista. I'm not in the habit of kicking anyone when their down, but I've first hand used this, struggled with it, tried to fix it for others, and literally just sat bewildered as many have, being just utterly gobsmacked at the total mess this is. With glaringly obvious, Grand Canyon sized holes in usability, scalability and common sense. It's frankly had just odd, and very strange choices made in this software, and is overly complex, despite it's supposed simplifying from XP, and it's just a real 'wow' how this ever got released...

Apple of course are loving all this, and their long running PC vs. MAC ads are celebrating it loudly. [Their ads have been so successful have created a whole spoof market of their own such as this Wii Vs PS3 ad.] Apple are not without question either though, with themselves having many dubious tactics and plenty of dubious software, however, they do tend to get the aesthetics and marketing on the money. For many the best choice out there is [and it seems like heaven when] reverting back to Windows XP.

So if you've just bought a new latop or computer and it has Vista installed, be warned, you will experience the 'Wow'. Just not quite the wow you hoped for...Click this posts title to view an Apple Vista ad.