As everyone knows, I'm a Mac guy. However, there is a need for me to run Windows, at the very least on my gaming PC which is what I use to run WoW, EQ, EQ2, Dreamfall, Guild Wars, BF2142, etc. I need to keep the machine running smooth all the time, and I have to be confident that it's going to run well every time I turn it on.

Back in the days before Windows XP, I hated Windows. I friggin' hated it. It was a necessary evil because you couldn't play EQ on a Mac, and Unreal Tournament sucked on a Mac. When Windows XP came out, I loved it because MS finally moved away from that Windows 3.1-type architecture and moved towards an NT-like one that was much more stable. To this day, I've had less blue screens since XP's release in 2001 than I have fingers on one hand. I love XP for what it is. It's no Mac OS X, but it does its job and does it well.

So what about Vista? I couldn't give a crap about it. For one thing, there's no guarantee that all my games, devices, and drivers will work with it in perfect harmony. It seems to me that Vista's biggest competition is XP. Not to mention all the security bullshit which will someday disallow me to play my own podcast on my PC. Could you imagine?

So, no Vista for me, at least not for now.

Oh, and here's a picture of the box, just to keep the place pretty: