Windows Vista, You're Fired!

I was using my laptop and decided to switch to Windows Vista Business Edition from my Windows XP Professional edition. Microsoft stated that Vista is a lot better and that it can run legacy programs.

The upgrade went well, I did it myself. I didn't need any of the nerds I pay a salary to in order to install it. I am the type of manager that likes to get his hands on new things like technology anyway.

My Anti-Virus program stopped working, and I cannot get MS-Office 2003 to work properly. The custom software that I pay my nerds a lot of money to develop for me stopped working because they use an older version of Visual BASIC and Visual C++ to develop it. Plus a lot of web sites I access for financial information break with Internet Explorer 7.0 and there is no option to downgrade to IE 6.0 at all.

Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, this Windows Vista of yours is a dog! You ought to go back to the Windows XP codebase and Windows 2000 codebase and just skip Vista. I myself find no needs for the annoying features that Vista has, and security is a joke, every time I copy a file I get asked if I want to allow it. Are you kidding me? Plus there are so many security flaws in Vista, that people are waiting for Service Pack 1 in order to prevent being infected by the same malware over and over again.

There is no way to downgrade back to XP once you upgraded! Good thing I back up my data with DVD-RW disks and tape backups over a network. This information I have is too valuable to waste it, or trust it with those incompetent Geek Squad employees who trashed the last hard drive of my old laptop when all I had was a keyboard problem from spilling coffee on the keyboard. It was supposed to be a simple keyboard replacement, but they fried the hard drive. So I fired Geek Squad. Now I am going to have to fire Windows Vista.

I am reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP and recovering my data from a backup. I don't have the time to waste on waiting for that service pack to magically fix all of the flaws in Vista because Microsoft was in a rush to get it to market and cut out features and released it with too many bugs and flaws in it.