I already had a bad reputation before Vista remember?
So what! You're not alone there... still picking off little pieces of mud from the last lot of shenanigans I found myself in. Just as well, then, I gave up the grog and related mischief six or so years ago... otherwise my dry cleaning bill would be enormous.
Actually there were and still are many of us that hoped or hope that Vista would or will break MS.
I don't see that happening any time soon... hell is more likely to freeze over first, me thinks.
Um, Starkers, Vista had negative press about its release delays before it came out.
Yeah, I know... Microsoft didn't do itself any favours regarding Vista's release, nor with its pricing and segmented issues, either, but then there were some commentators and self-proclaimed experts who set about painting Vista with a much blacker name than it deserved.
Fortunately, having had a good experience with the Vista betas, I liked the OS well enough to dismiss all the anti-hype and make my own evaluation. I purchased Vista Ultimate when it was released and I'm quite happy with its performance... no major complaints so far.
And given how badly build the most recent internal SP1 screwed up beta tester systems worldwide just last month, I'm thinking it might NOT be a good idea to try this RC just yet.
From what I've been told (by a little dickie bird at MS Sydney), this release has been much refined since the earlier betas and is quite close to the final package. Is it perfect?? Probably not, given how many hardware/software configurations MS has to try cater for, but I'm hearing there are noticeable performance and stability improvements with this RC version due out next week...supposedly it'll hit the servers on Monday, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I mean, MS doesn't wanna be accused of releasing it into the wild too soon, so they might wait 'til Tuesday.
