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Do you buy a new cell phone every time a new model hits the market? Or how about your car, do you buy the new model every year? The answer is most likely no, it would be insanely expensive and you wouldn’t have any time to get used to the features of the older model before you have to learn how to use the new model. Some times upgrading can be something that you would want to do, for example if the airline wants to upgrade your plane tickets to first class for free, or upgrading your anti-virus definitions to the latest versions.
And yet, upgrading can be one of the best or worse things you do to your computer. Take for example Apple’s OS X Leopard. This software touts to be the best Mac OS X to date, yet for some, upgrading caused nothing but headaches. The infamous blue screen of death (BSOD) showed up on several Mac users after they installed their new software. Numerous other problems popped up during the installation of this new operating system as well. A quick scan of any Mac user populated forum will surely have some complaints in it. Now to be fair, the virus world has yet to infect Mac users, unlike Microsoft and its every virus / bug ridden Windows operating system.
Speaking of Windows, this brings up Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system. I don’t really know where to start 
with this one, Vista is garbage. The new OS was supposed to be fast and easy to use, and yet almost everyone has had problems even installing the software on their computers. Incompatibility with certain software packages, bugs galore, and errors that tell you that the system that reports errors has errors, make Windows Vista one of the worst Windows releases since Windows ME, and I think we all remember that one.
The problem with both of these operating systems is that upgrading to them is supposed to benefit the user, and yet all they have done is cause heartache and trips to the computer repair shop for help getting past their install problems.
So the next time you’re thinking of upgrading, make sure you do a little research on any issues people are having with whatever it is you are upgrading to, and also make sure you don’t believe everything the commercial or sales rep tells you.
Any thoughts? I’d love to hear from some Mac and Windows users who have or haven’t had any problems with either Mac OS X Leopard or Windows Vista.
I’ve had vista for quite some time now, I got it fairly quickly after it came out. All over the place are people complaining about how bad it is, but I mean really, I love it. it looks good, runs fine as far as I’m concerned and as for those “annoying features”? turn them off, thats what I did, not hard really. In fact i don’t think my computer has crashed or frozen yet with vista which I find lovely. well except that time I wiped my disk clean trying to duel boot Linux but that was my fault.
basically I just buy whenever I feel I need a new one. e.g. faster CPU, better graphics card, etc. otherwise, I just use it and utilize it until it conks out or acts weird…
I recently got Vista. I’ve had a few teething problems but nothing to complain about. I do prefer XP but I am getting use to vista now. When XP came out people where complaining about it too. Now everyone loves it. Once people got use to it.
Right after I posted this, I found out that they are discontinuing support for XP in April of 2009, which makes me very worried that we are going to have to deal with Vista on almost every PC that comes out now. I haven’t had too many problems, but I haven’t dug too deep into it yet.
Use Linux! Either “apt-get -d upgrade” (I think) or use a distro with a rolling release cycle. Long Live Linux!
I tried Vista briefly, but ever since I upgraded to XP I haven’t looked back. It’s much more stable, and you’d be surprised at how many applications run compatibly on it
By the way, I got the idea from this comment here, great post:
http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx
I’ve had Vista for a while now and have no complains. In fact, I’ve gotten so used to the bells and whistles of how it looks that XP just looks plain ugly to me now.
Other than that, I find both operating systems to be about the same. I can run anything I want on Vista and have never had a compatibility problem (I don’t know what everyone else is complaining about it). It helps being a tech savvy person so you know where to go to tweak your system. I removed most of the unnecessary features and am left with a pretty fast system. Not as fast as XP, but not noticeably slower.
it seems that the number of users that have no problems running vista is equal to the number of users that do have a problem with vista. maybe we just haven’t heard enough from the peopl that don’t have any issues running it to make a bold enough statement towards the stability of vista.
then again, i haven’t seen any complaints about leopard so that makes me wonder…