Ever since Bill Gate$ and company began their march through internet land, all we’ve heard is how this will be the latest and greatest thing to ever grace our computerized lives. From Windows ‘95 on up to XP…we’ve heard various offerings of the same thing. It’s still coming on strong with the newly released Vista OS (operating system).

Before it’s release ever became a reality, M/$ worked ever so hard to come up with a new OS that would be less buggy (M/$? less buggy?) and be much more secure than it’s predecessors were. <insert loud cough here>

M/$ even offered a test drive to a large crowd of dignitaries that ranged in profession from engineers to hackers. (Yes, hackers too) This test drive was designed to show off just how secure the new OS was. M/$ people strutted about the room with chests puffed out and the look of confidence in their faces. Too bad it was for naught (cool word thrown in here).

Several of the dignitaries began to raise their hands to indicate a hole in this so-called secure new code of theirs. Shock and awe crept across the faces of M/$ execs as hand after hand slowly rose one after another. Holes in the code were being found. Quickly too! Faces of confidence were now turning to faces of stone as the realization of yet another failure began to sink in.

Now, several months later, M/$ is rushing to sell it’s new OS to the general public. Grand reviews abound telling one and all about this latest and greatest thing to ever grace our computerized lives. Sounds familiar…too familiar. Seems in their rush to get the product to market they may have forgotten about that pesky little hole (or two or three?) in their new OS. That’s ok…they’ll rush out the patches…again. Maybe in a month or two…after they see just how quickly the real world hackers can locate the flaws.

Check this page out for more info on the 10 reasons NOT to get Vista!

All this and several hundred dollars for an upgrade to this “Leaky” Vista? Not to mention all the hardware upgrades we’re going to be forced to go through, the software drivers we’re going to have to scurry to locate and who knows what else after we find out Vista just won’t work as advertised.

Thanks M/$ but no thanks. Think I’ll just stick with my trusty Linux.