How to buy Vista, Joy of Tech style

We don't link to Joy of Tech that often, because if we did we'd end up doing it pretty much every day (cue Carly Simon... Noooobody doooes it bettah...). When the readers start giving us the heads-up that Nitrozac and Snaggy have produced something especially trenchant and wry, though, we are bound to take (un)official notice.

Click the image or the Read link for the full comic; it manages to portray the Vista buying experience in very stark contrast to shopping for Our Favorite OS.

Update: Snaggy notes that this cartoon was inspired in part by Erica's post on the multiple versions of Vista. O what a tangled web we weave...

Thanks Ronald & everyone else who sent this in.

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Source: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/915.html

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mcatherinehirschbiel

"Unshelved," a library comic had a Mac-related comic today...http://www.overduemedia.com/archive.aspx?pd=20070201

February 01 2007 at 7:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NavStar

OMG!!! Joy of Tech is SOOOOO FUNNY! Every week is better than the last!!! Funniest thing EVAR! LOLOL0L!!!1!

The only thing funnier is Family Circus!!!!!

January 29 2007 at 3:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Doc

Jeremy, wWw, you think grandma and the typical consumer/non computer geek type keeps up on all the latest in computer tech? Crawl out of the shell man, there's another world outside. LOL.

January 28 2007 at 2:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

That is pretty good!
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Http://www.WindowsVistaUserGuide.com

January 28 2007 at 1:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff Simms

yeah thats pretty much so funny, i linked to it on my blog.

www.jeffreysimms.com

January 28 2007 at 1:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Snaggy

Awww shucks! Thanks! :-D
Kudos to TUAW too! Notice the "Tip o' the beanie" on the left side of the comic's page. :-)

January 27 2007 at 11:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremy Krolikowski

OK. That was pretty funny.

But if you don't know how to buy Vista, you have to be pretty dim-witted. If it's for a home computer, the word "home" in the name is a dead giveaway.
Home Basic. Home Premium.
And then, of course, the Upgrade versions.

If you buy Business or Enterprise for your home, you hopefully have an explanation other than "I didn't know I should have bought the Home version for my home."

If you're incapapble of doing a little research, may God help you.

Anyways...

Upgrading to Vista is not as hard as Apple and TUAW make it seem. Although, at the moment, it does seem pretty bad of an idea. I can't believe they're already working on a Service Pack.

I just hope Apple will upgrade iTunes and Quicktime to be Vista compatible. After all, there's only 3 days left.