Veto Vista

Perhaps you've already seen this amusing but surprisingly-close-to-the-truth BlimpTV video.

I was considering buying a new notebook and wondering whether to get Vista or not. I did think to myself, "why do they offer the same notebooks at the same price in XP and Vista versions then leave you to decide which you want?" I begin to understand now.

A friend of mine upgraded his Dell super-notebook to Vista a few weeks ago. His exact words to me (precluded by a bitter naija hiss): "I regret it." Another friend upgraded to Vista and is described as "still fighting with his notebook till today".

I already use one of the bits of Vista, the anti-spyware anti-virus anti-operating-system solution Windows Defender and I'm telling you the video guys weren't exaggerating at all, no MS-bashing, it doesn't catch sh!+ (impressive new DCS technology).

I've used it for maybe 18 months and all it's ever done is sit in memory like a fat green toad and ask me almost every single day whether it should allow an Adobe Reader Speed Launcher shortcut to stay in my startup folder. When I scan my PC with it, it says it's fine, 100% clean. I scan it with McAfee AV and AdAware and turn up lots of spyware and an occasional virus.

In fact I'm uninstalling it right now.