14 DAY TRIAL // Windows Vista stuffed, uninspiring and filled with cryptic error messages is Apple's vision of the latest operating system to leave the Redmond laboratories. It is just your average Apple perspective over Windows, just what users have come to expect from the Cupertino-based company. And with the usual humorous twist to it.
But wait, is that Leopard waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off in the distance? And when I say way off, I actually mean October 2007, when Apple plans to release the latest edition of Mac OS X. For your viewing pleasure I have included three of the freshest Get a Mac ads authored by Apple at the bottom of this article.
Well of course you can actually interpret them and say that they should go something in the lines of: PC Guy John Hodgman, Windows Vista: "Hello I'm a PC" and Mac Guy Justin Long, Leopard: "...(line coming in October)". But that would be undeserved for, right?
Although two of the videos can virtually be ignored, the Stuffed one is actually not very far from the truth. Windows PCs, and Windows Vista machines make no exception to this rule coming with a luxuriant collection of pre-installed applications, also referred to as craplets.
Users that acquire Windows Vista PCs will find that the operating system is by no means virgin territory. Instead, they get an additional plethora of programs and advertisements, when all they paid for was a copy of Windows Vista. Just to make things clear. Microsoft is in no way responsible for such situations. The OEMs that build the PCs are. However, Microsoft has a responsibility towards its customers.
Booting Vista for the first time in your home and getting a tone of craplets that you have to manage, uninstall, mitigate, delete has the potential to greatly diminish the Wow Microsoft has been so strongly advertising. Aside from the Apple mockery, this is a real issue that affects Vista customers directly and Microsoft needs to hold OEMs on a much shorter leash.