Interesting geeky fact

There are more people in the world still using Windows Vista than any version of OSX...

I remember getting a new laptop when Vista came out - within a few days I'd got shut and installed Windows XP on it.

 

Vista was disgustingly bad yes, a shiny surface to it but a disgrace under the hood. A cosmetic upgrade to Windows XP would have been much better and still more than adequate for use today.

For all the stick Windows machines get for supposedly crashing all the time, I never remember that being an issue with XP (or with Windows 7 to be fair) I think it was more a case of people still using 8 year old hardware and having hard drives and RAM that were failing - which they will obviously do in any system after four or five years.

 

We only upgraded to Windows 7 at work a few months ago, forced to as the support for XP was coming to an end, but we bought in a load of new PCs at the same time. Otherwise there was no immediate need to, the older PCs were from around 2006 and worked perfectly for the general office.

 

It was more a case that I was surprised because I thought the only fully-fledged computers people bought these days were Macs but the market share for OSX doesn't seem to be any more than it was ten years ago.

 

I never had the 'pleasure' of using ME. Seems like Microsoft are back into the cycle of releasing a new OS every couple of years so I'm sure the next terrible one isn't far away!