krista.txt

I had a feeling this post was coming, but I'm afraid my next PC is going to be a Mac. My friend recently purchased a Gateway GT5435E with Vista Home Premium preinstalled from Sam's Club. No doubt a very nice system, and this is his first computer. (Yes, there are still people out there who've never touched a computer yet, and unfortunately they have to resort to this!) First off, I'm not really understanding the pathetic size of the All Programs menu, and overall I'm not all that impressed with the Aero interface - does anybody else think this is ugly? And the icons... Next, it continually has to ask your permission to do just about anything, isn't that just a little overkill? Finally in some areas, you have to click around that much more whereas in XP you can go to the same thing with fewer clicks, which is just absolutely ridiculous! I'm not sure what Microsoft was trying to accomplish here. Let's just say I'm embarrassed; his family are big Mac users and he should've just got one. While this is his first computer, he'll probably not notice how bad this really sucks, but I do; if Microsoft never came out with a bad product before, Vista is it, and I'm sorry but Vista sucks. What a piece of... bloatware!!!