Microsoft 0, James 1

Eff you Microsoft. That's right after hours of trying last night... rounds 1 through 6 went to Bill and his legion of Vista bugs. Just prior to calling it a night and hanging my head in defeat I had one last ditch effort that saved me from quitting my profession as a computer engineer. Here's the story of what I did to relinquish myself of that Mind numbing experience we call Vista.

I recently got a new computer, and rather than PAYING Dell for the "Downgrade," I chose to get Vista and remove it manually. I mean gosh... I'm an engineer I'm sure I can figure this one out. First let me get this off my chest...

'HEY DELL... the fact that you charge more for a DOWNGRADE is gay. You'd be better off putting a cheap spin on Apples. You'd spend half as much on outsourced telephone support... that's for sure.'

Moving on. First I figured I'd partition my HD and just run two Opearting systems, then delete Vista once I had a stable version of XP on it. The catch... Vista won't let you run an XP install disk. You can boot to it, but you lose your entire allocation table when you try and "fix" your MBR. And by god you better be willing to deal with a shit storm. I tried everything to restore it... and not because I really wanted to have vista, I'd honestly rather type assembly code to execute my commands that run that piece of shit operating system, but all my dear MP3's I spent years pirating right down the tubes (FU Lars). I gave up with that at about... 830pm. 10 rolled around and I had just about lost it... But Then I remembered something.... I have an old version of a Man's Operating system I can use to fix everything.

My brilliant idea was to boot into Red Hat from my CD ROM drive and and format the entire HD. And that's exactly what I did. Red Hat vs. Windows is like David and Goliath, if David was the winning kill-bot on robot wars and Goliath was the Copy Machine from Office Space that Michael Bolton beats the shit out of. Shit, Red Hat is so proficient I had to stop it from formatting my carpet once it ran out of Microsoft bytes. It was awesome...

To sum things up... In the future, just spend the extra 400$, and get a MAC. It'll never screw you over. They break half as often. They're pretty, sleek... you carry one around while wearing a cardigan and horned rim glasses and chicks think you're intellectual (or like dudes). Hell this chick like them...