The Trouble with Vista
When you make a decision, what sways you — cogent rationalization or what your gut tells you? I’ll tell you what I believe in: real-world, hands-on research. And lots of it. I want to know every facet of a new product or technology before I judge it. I want to try it for myself. Run it through different situations. Measure how it reacts to different conditions, and to record how I and others react to those things. This doesn’t work so well for cookware, mobile phones or large-screen TVs, because you won’t get the real-world scenario in the showroom. But it works for automobiles pretty well if you’re persistent about getting a decent test drive or two. And it especially works for computer software if you’re a beta tester. My first copy of Windows Vista came to me in late 2003, and I can’t even count the number of builds I tested before the gold code arrived in late November. I have spent hundreds of hours testing Vista.