I love motorcycles. I particularly love air-cooled motorcycles; once you add water cooling, it’s a two-wheeled car. So one thing I really hate are water-cooled motorcycles that pretend to be air-cooled. If they’re proud of their design, they should flaunt it. But no: they put unnecessary fins on the engine, just to fool you into thinking there’s no water jacket surrounding it. It’s deceptive; just sitting there, that bike is lying to you.
I get a similar feeling about Vista. My first impressions (in print, alas!) were largely favorable. This OS fooled me! Yes… the superficial glitz, the chrome, the few little usability touches… it all convinced me that this OS was not bad.
But Vista isn’t that OS. Use it for a while and the chrome starts to flake off. The Aero interface starts to cloy, to give you a headache. The usability touches turn out to be badly conceived. They rarely help, and more often get in the way.
But that first “out of box” experience fooled me into thinking I might actually like this water-cooled two-wheeled car.
