I haven't really used Windows on my computer since Windows 2000. That was the last version of Windows I ever installed on my home computer. I rather enjoyed Windows 2000. To this date, I still believe it to be the best Windows release Microsoft has ever produced. I know there are a lot of you out there talking about how great XP is, but XP wasn't so great at it's release. It wasn't until Service Pack 2 or even 3 that people really started to like it. That was around 2 years after the initial release. XP was a pain in the but and had a lot of issues during it's initial release. Most of the people that remember it fondly, were dealing with Windows 98 release issues, and were impressed with the greater stability Windows XP offered over their current 98 issues. Prior to Windows 2000, my favorite Windows release was Windows 95 (OSR2, or B if you know). I hated and skipped Windows 98.

Anyway, Windows 2000 was definitely a great system. Many IT people I knew ran the beta's and such because everything ran much smoother, in spite of the lack of driver support and such. But many useful applications installed and ran just fine on it without that support. It was the OS that made me think Microsoft was really turning things around. I had new hopes for the future. It was during this time, and the time of XP (using it at work), but I started watching it all crumble down again that I decided to switch to Linux.

I've been quite happy with that switch. I have very few problems with my computer now, and Windows is running in a VMware for some very minor uses like Neflix and such when I decide to use it. Other than that, I hardly ever run it, which shows by the many many security updates needed when I launch it. But I'm not here to talk about Linux or my personal PC usage. No, I'm here to talk about my recent experience with Vista, and why I don't think I'll ever be going back to Windows after that.

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