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Paul Thurnott, who is usually excited about all things Microsoft seems very dissapointed with Windows Vista. Here is the conlusion of his review of the latest CTP. He still gives it 5 pauls though.

So I guess I’m not the only one who isn’t so thrilled with Windows Vista. Honestly, I really am not expecting much from this release and its quite likely I won’t bother to upgrade.

Speaking of operating systems, I read an article yesterday that deals with the barriers people encounter in switching to Linux. This got me to thinking, why is there not a movement for switching to Linux, similar to the one like there is for Firefox? So I check Godaddy to see if getlinux.com is available. Sadly, no. However, when navigating to http://www.getlinux.com, there is nothing to be found. So I check out the registration for the domain and this is what I get:

Registrant:
BUSEY, ANDREW
*** *** ****
AUSTIN, TX 78701-3636
US

Domain Name: GETLINUX.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
BUSEY, ANDREW busey@oxygencapital.com
*** ****** ****
AUSTIN, TX 78701-3636
US
********** fax: *** *** ****

Record expires on 04-Nov-2008.
Record created on 05-Nov-1998.
Database last updated on 19-Apr-2006 23:00:50 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.OXYGENCAPITAL.COM 66.136.194.122
NS1.CRAYON.COM 64.128.30.229

Registry Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited

(I edited out some of the address details because maybe Andrew doesn’t want his info posted all over the internet.)

Googling Andrew Busey returns http://www.pluck.com/company/team.html as the first result. A little research shows that yes, this is the same Andrew Busey. I’m not going to walk through all the steps, an enterprising internet user such as yourself should be able to do the same thing I did. Meanwhile, here’s hoping Mr. Busey has some sort of purpose for this gem of a domain name rather than just squatting on it.

Speaking of Googling names, I wonder how many other Erica Baker’s there are out there. Of course there is the Erica Baker who has been missing since February 7, 1999. Then there is the Erica Baker in California that works in advertising. She tells me that there is another Erica Baker in LA who works in advertising as well. I think I’m going to start an Erica-roll. If any Erica Baker’s out there have webpages you’d like me to link to, leave a comment and I’ll add it.

I think that will do for today’s babbling.

Not more than a few weeks after I get my little (well not so little) hands on Vista, comes the news that the release has been pushed back until 2007. Honestly. I, for one, am not at all surprised by this announcement, given the fact that besides some new UI stuff (stolen from Apple and Linux) and some ridiculous bug-me-ware, I see nothing changed of significance in Vista. So yes, M$, push back and push back and push back some more until you have a product I as both a consumer and an IT professional will see some value in. Perhaps you should pull back on the whole Live initiative and focus more on your core business. Like it or not, you’re an OS and software company. Try and, you know, do it right? Thanks.

I went to a Business Desktop Deployment class recently and one of the M$ reps sitting in hooked us up with Vista beta invites. A few days ago, I actually got around to installing build 5308 and I’ve started using it regularly. However, if it does not shut up, I will go right back to using XP or maybe start really getting into the Kubuntu I installed on my other box.

Seriously, Windows does NOT need my permission to run the task manager. I understand the whole secure computing initiative but that does not mean pester me every time I want to do one task or another. I haven’t found the setting (if one exists) to make it stop bothering me every other second but once I do, it will never EVER get turned back on.

Meanwhile I have a few Live Messenger invites if a) anybody reads this and b) anybody wants one.

Something that very obviously doesn’t work so well:
Yahoo Messenger 7

Now, I tried to install the Beta version when I installed Vista…I live on Yahoo you understand. I was noticably displeased when I fired up Yahoo and alas you can’t see the people on your buddy list. Well today I was happy to see that the Messenger version was out of Beta and I had hoped that the stable version would play in Vista. Wrong. So I am still using Gaim for all my messenger communications.

More Vistacular later.