Yes, I know I'm late to the game. Vista is already old hat to the tech savvy. But I usually don't see why I have to bother myself with a new OS when the old OS is perfectly fine for the stuff I'm doing.
I've been fiddling around with Windows Vista this evening--the first time I've had a looksee really--and for some reason, my mind went back to some of the older Windows operating systems that I've used. I remember that before I got into my double digits, my dad had attempted to teach me BASIC, but failed. I wasn't really interested in computers except for the occasional game of Pacman until I found the rudimentary word processing program in DOS.
Then in high school, I got a desktop computer running on 3.1 (and later 3.11), but all I did was write and read educational CD-ROMS on it--I read Oedipus Rex and Antigone, my first e-books perhaps? Getting Windows 95 coincided with getting internet access and then a little after that, a bit of a fuzzy interlude when I had Windows 98 or Windows 2000 (or maybe even both). And then Windows NT. Maybe it was a step backward, but I actually kind of liked NT--I always knew where I stood with it. My first laptop was when I first got XP. And I'm planning on mostly sticking with XP until my laptop dies.
As for Vista, well, I'm not quite sure what to think of it. It's like navigating a redesigned website at the moment.
