On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:26, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151402-1/the_10_most_overrated_products.html > > Apple iPhone, iTune and iPod Touch rank very high in the > top 10 list of overrated IT product. > > In general I agree with the article. But the following > may be arguable: Vista is considered underrated and > XP overrated. ;-) There is a bit of truth here but in > general I think XP is really much more usable than > Vista even after Vista SP1 came out this year. > > > Xiaofan I bought a new laptop 3 weeks ago with Vista on it, and its great. I prefer it to XP totally. Its more secure its yet to blue screen on any of my projects, XP is a 5 reboot a day everytime. It has all the irritating features that did not work on XP fixed, such as user accounts. It just feels good, its more like my Win2000 box than my XP one. It suprises me how many people now love XP when they hated it before Vista, but that's what change does to people, I see it all the time in any of my development projects move something to a different position to add something useful in addition and I get a torrent of email wanting it put back. Also Apple know their hardware, Microsoft don't, they have to guess and hope it works. If Apple entered the OS market properly they would soon see that their OS is the same. Fact is my Mac now crashes more than my Vista Laptop, so I use the vista one more, never thought I'd ever do that after the mistake that XP was. IMHO XP migrated more users to the Mac than Vista will. Bryan -- Bryan Whitehouse Webdesign, New Media, Games Designer, Application Development http://www.zeroshadow.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist