The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys

Or it is definitely winning.

After my previous posts about the experience that I had with Vista I’ve encountered the most serious problem in it — the network part of Vista was “reworked”, which in Microsoft speak I guess means “fubar“. It just doesn’t work. You know, as in “just works”, but the other way around.

I won’t go into detail here, but I, a reasonably experienced Windows user, was not able to properly setup the damn network at all (the internet connection sharing and all this stuff). And this is not the worst part.

The worst part is that now — after I finally managed to make the network work in some form — I can’t connect to my server from my laptop using a VPN connection (again, not going into much details). This works in XP without problems and not in Vista.

It will be a big pity if Apple won’t get a huge crowd of converts now. I am certainly planning to convert. Just waiting for the Jaguar to be released hopefully along with the update to the Apple’s Macbook Pro line (which are gorgeous already, but are almost a year old).

And while I am waiting, I am back to XP.

PS. And I agree that this might just happen. Microsoft is very close (as probably it has never been before) to losing it’s top position.