Ok, this really is getting annoying. I work for an organization that has decided to go whole-heartedly to Vista. The wisdom of this decision, i will not debate here, but i am sure that people smarter than myself have their reasons. Anyway, we are on this road to Vista. I have an employee who has only worked here for 5 weeks and today, Adobe CS3 has just stopped working. No joke, this thing has just started to crash out of the blue. Now i dare you to google “adobe cs3 crash +vista” and take a look at what people are going through. I am amazed that Microsoft can unleash this software on the unassuming assuming public. Let me explain.

The public assumes that their operating system will work. The public assumes that when they upgrade, their system will be better than the last. The public assumes that their investment in their software packages will be upheld through the upgrade. The public assumes that someone as large as MicroSoft could manage to put out something that just works. And there’s the joke! HA HA Joe Public! There you go again thinking that Microsoft has your best interest at heart!

I am not impressed by this operating system Microsoft. Its slow, its a memory pig, and now i have to deal with major downtime of one of my employees because your software has just decided to stop working with other major software vendor’s packages.

Some of you may be saying, hey! this isn’t MicroSoft’s problem! It’s Adobe’s! Wrong, wrong, wrong. I understand software development, i understand interoperability and I understand that Microsoft cannot control the 1000’s of vendors and how they implement software. But wow, i just don’t understand how this Operating System can be so unstable. How can a major piece of software JUST STOP WORKING in this day and age?

Microsoft is losing market-share, It may be a slow process, but its happening. I am so happy that i am a Macintosh user at this time because my software just works. It doesn’t crash randomly… or at all.

That being said, here ends my rant.