December 2007 Archives

There is some debate regarding Windows Vista, Microsoft's flagship that is supposed to be the answer to Apple's MacOSX. After trying it out for a couple of days now I can only come to the conclusion that OMG it's bad. It not only looses by a wide margin to MacOSX, it stands no chance against its supposedly older sibling Windows XP. There are a lot of nice features that I do like, foremost the proper support for running as multiple users smoothly, running as a non root user and then installing programs as root. Nice. Now we've caught up with UNIX who had it, ah 1970 or so...

I'm going to do something different today, instead of bashing on C++ as I usually do, I'm going to point at some good things about it. In fact, it's even involving templates, my old archenemy (Bowser is nothing compared to them). So while I'm happily downloading The Orange Box on Steam, I'm writing this very quick and dirty post.