A year ago, many people asked what the point of Vista was - other than the spiffy new Aero interface. The justification of a new operating system is usually a new application that needs some aspect of that new OS to operate, and that provides a solution to a currently unresolved problem, or shows a process that gives new meaning to our computing lives. At the time of its release, there was nothing to show off the raison d’être for Vista.

Today, the zero is still the score on that one.

Several places have running commentaries on the progress of such an application, and none have come close to a description of anything more useful than a specialized version of the instant messaging client for Yahoo, which is described as so slow that it brings a dual core machine with a serious graphics solution to its knees while popping up an emoticon.

Wow, such an important application, and still a dual core machine doesn’t have the oomph to deliver the goods with Vista! This sounds suspiciously like the time when people should stop trying to teach the metaphorical pig to sing. 

Vista, crazy, and of the porcine persuasion.

By the way, unless the wonder code that is Service Pack 1 delivers an order of magnitude difference in speed, the search will have to continue, or like the one for Amelia Earhart, be given up.

Still, some, like Diogenes, will continue….

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[tags] Microsoft, Vista, killer application, Yahoo messenger, Diogenes [/tags]

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