Stephen Fry bashes Vista and VAIO in anti-PC tirade

by Stevie Smith - Dec 9 2008, 13:00

Having already vented his tech-enthusiast spleen in the direction of the new BlackBerry Storm smartphone, British actor and comedian Stephen Fry has now unleashed scathing evaluations of high-profile tech products offered up by software and electronics giants Microsoft and Sony.

Voicing his displeasure through a personal Twitter page that boasts in the region of 30,000 readers, Fry has strapped on his hob-nailed boots and liberally laid some hefty kicks into the Windows Vista operating system and also the VAIO computer brand.

Not that Microsoft’s much-maligned operating system is no stranger to vicious criticism, Fry said, “I hate Vista so much I want to cry,” while he slammed the VAIO as “the most useless $4k ever spent.”

“Too late, it’s going out the window. I can’t put up with this sort of arse,” exclaimed the Q.I. presenter and star of A Bit of Fry and Laurie. “Every time I buy a PC they’re worse, not better than they were before and it makes me so angry I could kill.”

According to online technology magazine T3, Fry experienced notable problems with connecting his high-end VAIO notebook to a functioning sec-enabled network, with the Windows-powered system arbitrarily offering to merely “diagnose the problem” as opposed to asking for a password.

Fry’s outburst comes about after the star, a keen proponent of all things Apple, agreed to flex his software reviewing muscles for UK broadsheet The Guardian, and needed to have a PC equipped with Windows Vista as a result.

“I have nine macs!” added Fry during his ranting anti-PC tirade. “I don’t need another fucking mac. I just want ONE ARSING PC that isn’t complete SHIT.”

After taking stock of the situation and calming down somewhat, Fry later added to his Twitter page by apologising for the use of choice language, saying that “Vista and [Windows] PCs are so crap it’s funny.”

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