[TheAnimus]

I can't stand when people use almost a religious zeal as the basis for their advocacy.

I graduated from uni 2 years ago now. Whilst i was at uni it was 'cool' to run linux. Whoop-t-do. The problem was this got carried through to many bad things, a friend and I often helped charities with their IT stratergies, I remeber been flamed by a fellow student because we'd advised that charity to buy 2 more machines, complete with windows licenses. Why waste a charities money when there are free alternatives was the cry. Completely ignoring the useage the charity wanted to put the PCs too. I just couldn't stand the fact someone was advocating something they clearly hadn't seen any of the requirements for.

This seams to of carried forward into vista, but with another pet hate of mine, tech journalists who know how to write, but don't know squat about what their writing about. I actually got banned from another tech forum for slagging off an author who had reviewed a beta version of vista, completely ignoring basic bits of commen sense (and i'm fairly sure violating the beta conditions), things like the installer isn't the one thats going to be used in production. He also ignored the new features, instead wanting to talk about look and feel of bits of the shell?! Even before vista made it to the more public beta's the journos had made a nice living out of slating it.