My brother’s out visiting for Thanksgiving, and his Vista-powered (or was it ready?) notebook is having an incredibly difficult time connecting to our wireless network (for whatever reason). I was, of course, quick to place the blame on Vista — and not just because I’m being bigoted; this isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone complaining about Wifi problems under Microsoft’s “best” OS.<\/p>\n
Anyways, I began searching Google for problems specifically related to his PC\/chipset, but, in the process, stumbled across a completely scientific method of proving which operating system — Vista or XP — was better.<\/p>\n
First, I searched for “Vista wireless problems”: 15,400,00 results.<\/p>\n
Then I searched for “XP wireless problems”: 13,700,00 results.<\/p>\n
Not quite as overwhelming a victory as I’d hoped for, but it’s pretty clear who the top contender is.<\/p>\n
(As a purely academic exercise, I then typed in “Linux wireless problems”. A scant 46,200,000 results. Maybe this method isn’t really as accurate as I was hoping for. Or, more likely, people are posting lots of comments about how Linux fixed<\/i> their wireless problems. Yeah.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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