Dreadful Vista and Windows 7 Updates:

I know that the subject of Windows Vista’s shortfalls has been exhausted at this point. Especially, now, when the “messiah” Windows 7 became available. All troubles seem so far way. Yet, I’d like to bring to the light my personal frustration with the recent Windows reincarnations, which, as far as I know, are not very often talked about.

When Vista just came out, I, personally, appreciated the great number of improvements that it introduced, while many of the shortcomings I simply eliminated through minor hacks and stripping of certain not so “innovative”, resource hogging features. To me most Windows Vista user’s complaints seemed either the results of laziness or incapability to customize windows to one’s own liking. After all, Windows truly lands itself to be customized(there’s of course the Linux). Of course, there are also those that simply follow the herd voice and hate Vista because it is cool to do so(those are typically hipster “Macboys” and “Macgals”).

I can say only one bad thing about Windows 7 and Vista: the most terrible thing about Windows Vista is its unberrably lengthy updates. I’ve used a nuber of distributions of Linux and most reincarnations of the Mac OS, and I’ve never witnessed such lengthy OS updating processes. It seems as though Windows is executing a complete overhaul of the OS system every single time that a minor update become available.

Somehow, updates list almost always contains “critical security updates”, which practically convinces the user in an inevitable need to proceed with update. The update dialog never offers a of pausing, in case a user had enough of waiting has has to leave. The updates almost always ask one to restart their machine, at which point the machine turns into what can be described  as a one sophisticated time sucker forcing the user to be glued to the screen for hours, waiting for the machine to re-restart for the last time. These lookalike MS DOS mode updates don’t even provide a progress bar or an estimate of required time

Moreover, unlike the great Linux option to simply pause, or cancel or postpone the update midway, Microsoft imposes the only cosmetic “solution” of minimising the process to the system tray, at which point enters a mode,  which make it seem as though the machine is usable whiles in reality it is actually extremely unstable. This “feature” renders the computer unusable in a professional setting throughout the update process.

It simply cannot be that every update requires such a thorogh resourse and time intensive restructuring, and number crunching. Something is really whong with the Window’s updating methodology. As far as I’m aweare, this particular issue of leangthy updates has not been revised in Windows 7 (correct me if i’m mitaken).

While I do appreciate Microsoft for making the world of computers accessible to me since the very youth, I’m slowly gathering anziety that some day with bring my wholehearted Windows support to a nil, and I will get one of those candyass Mac computers (as much as I love linux in my line of work I would not survive with the current open source alternatives).

So please, please, please, please, Microsoft, make future Windows updates painless!