Have We Forgiven Microsoft for Vista or Changed Our Minds About Apple?

      by Wyatt Walter

Have we forgotten about the Windows Vista release, or are we ready to give Microsoft another chance? Just a few short years ago, around this time, we were getting ready for the release of Windows Vista. Microsoft was hyping its new security model and consumers were busy complaining about changes they had made and how slow Windows had gotten. Meanwhile, Apple was busy with an advertising campaign slamming PCs for being virus ridden and not being “cool” among a few other things.

During the year that followed, Microsoft released Windows Vista. No matter the cause, it was a trainwreck of a release. It was too slow for consumers’ PCs, it had different locations for the same old buttons (not a bad thing, in my opinion, but people complained long and hard), and it wasn’t compatible with software that consumers were running.