What’s up now, Ballmer! The entire State of Texas is one step closer to banning the somewhat craptastic Windows Vista from government computers ’cause one State Senator heard the OS has problems. State agencies will have to receive written approval from the Finance Committee once the rider is enacted. Just to recap, this is because Senator Juan Hinojosa heard “of the many reports of problems with Vista.” This is really funny at first, but who is thinking of the State IT workers? Seriously! Who is thinking of them!
Windows Vista is a great redheaded step kid to beat, but the OS has really matured. The first few versions were buggy as hell, and sure, there continues to be issues. (I hate the networking) However, it’s a stable OS now. It works mostly fine and is the default OS on 99.9% (or something like that) of off the shelf computers. So, if a random government office needs a notebook quickly, will said office will need to get written permission from the Finance Committee before purchasing one from Best Buy? That’s our government at work, folks.
One Texas company, *cough* Dell *cough* is probably ordering up an Herman Miller Embody for every employee though thanks to this mandate and its $150 downgrade to XP fee.
My guess is… The senator is taking his advice from people in the non-tech community. Most of these people pass on things they have read on the internet, be they true or a complete bundle of burning BS. Most have not had first hand experience and are bandwagonning because they heard from their friend who is pretty tech savvy. I mean Frank over their can plug in a USB mouse and make it work, so he know all about this Windows Vista.
This just shows that you don’t have to be informed, or educated to be a politician. Great example of the blind leading the blind.
It is just further undeniable prove that stupidity in America knows no bounds.
Its not stupidity in America, it is stupidity in politicians.
Stupidity in politicians is universal. No matter the country.
Vista has been nothing but rock solid for me. My home premium on my lappy has never once BSOD’d on me. Sure, I have had occasional program crashes (mostly with beta software) but that is to be expected. My desktop has been a bit shakey with Vista Ultimate but it has more to do with my bios being completely screwed with the timings on my RAM and UT3 sucking a whole ton for PC.
I *love* Vista on my lappy. Love it. Running Home Premium, and its been an utterly fantastic experience for me and a pleasant progression from XP. This coming from someone who tried Vista when it first came out and hated it.
Just like every windows platform i have ever used, you have to wait about a year after it came out to use is, but after that initial year everything seems to be fine. This is year two correct?
Also why the hell does dell charge $150 for downgrade, especially when you can through any dell operating disk in and it will load and activate fine? And the drivers disk has both XP and Vista on it.
Actually, I heard Texas is the last state to ban this shit stain of American underoos…
No states that I know of have banned the OS. I work for the State of California and we run Vista all over the place.
dihydrogen oxide!
Did you ever see that movie super size me? Morgan Spurlock shows us how Texas is the fattest and most stupid state and America, so whatever the do i’ll try my best to do the opposite.
Wish Australia would get with the times. The entire Education department in my state is still using XP :|
what happens here is, they DON’T listen to their IT guys. nobody listens to the IT guys. it’s usually some suit upstairs that doesn’t know a mac from a pc that sees something on TV and either wants it, or becomes scared of it. at my last job, the last people they listened to was us. we coulda saved them (and taxpayers, millions, but NOooo) all the suits at the top royally f#cked everything up. they saw an episode of 24, and decided they wanted CTU fantasyland computer setups. vista’s pretty good if you have a great computer. if you have a so-so computer you will know right away your system is outdated, cause it’ll run like s#it. if it runs like Xp, you have a pretty decent rig.
As I sit here, trouble shooting driver problems on a Friday night in San Antonio – screw you, Microsoft!
Vista blows! Microsoft blows!
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THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH VISTA. JUST BY READING THIS ITS A FAKE INCLUDING THE PIC I KNOW NO ONE WILL MAKE THAT TYPE OF A PIC NO ONE BELIVE THIS I KNOW TEXAS WILL NEVER DO THIS. LOOK CLOSELY TO THE PIC UNDERNEATH IT AND SEE WHAT IT SAYS
THE PIC WHY WOULD ANY ONE SAY (FUCK TEXAS) THAT IS MESSED UP AND PUT A LITTLE GUY PEEING ON THE MICROSOFT LOGO I MEAN DAMN THATS STUPID INCLUDING FOR ANYONE THAT MADE THIS ARTICAL YOU MUST NOT LIKE TEXAS TO WELL BUT YOU KNOW ITS JUST A STATE WE ALL LIVE IN ONE
Had my XPS M1530 since July ‘08 and loved Vista ever since!
What do you mean with “cause one State Senator heard the OS has problems” ?? are you kidding? Vista is by far the worst OS ever, specially if we consider all the adquired experience from all these years, the improvement of software eng. techniques and the advance of technology in general.
Vista adds nothing to OS ecosystem. Windows XP is fine for 90% of people; the remaining 10% looking for something new, advanced and really up-to-date can go to MacOS or Linux universes, and see what an advance actually is.