Re: 20 Things You Won't Like About Vista
- From: Donald L McDaniel <orthocross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:58:25 -0700
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:31:12 -0700, Timberwoof wrote
(in article
<timberwoof.spam-FC1217.21311201062006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
Article:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&a
rticleId=9000829
If this article in any way references the so-called "interesting graph", see
my next comment.
Interesting Graph:
http://www.computerworld.com/html/collateral/msvistatour/02introchart.html
NOTE that this Graph has a PROVISO attached underneath, which reads "Based on
the SUBJECTIVE assessments of the author." (my emphasis on the word
"subjective")
Like all things which are labeled "subjective assessments of the author",
this is a COMPLETELY PERSONAL OPINION, and is NOT based on any FACTS in
evidence. Therefore, just "fictional", since anything not fact-based is
obviously fictional.
Come, on, Maccies, where are your FACTS?
Slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/06/01/1638216.shtml
20. Minimum video system requirements are more like maximum.
Should be no problem with Intel iMacs, since the Vista readiness tools inform
me that my Intel iMac w/2GB memory is perfectly compatible with ALL editions
of Vista, including the Ultimate Edition, which it recommends I use.
19. Aero stratification will cause businesses woe.
And?
Woes in Business are certainly not missing from OS X or Apple software. I
don't doubt that there will be some in Visa, until one over-comes the Vista
learning curve.
18. User Account Controls $#^%!~\!!!.
Normally, Windows user account settings are found in the Control Panel. Did
you look there?
17. Two words: Secure Desktop.
Any Windows desktop can be as secure as you are willing to make it. All it
takes is a few dollars and a little attention.
16. No way to access the Administrator account in Vista Beta 2.
Set Users to always ask for password. In XP, there is a setting to make the
Admin account always appear on the Login Screen. Don't know it there is one
in Vista, or where it is.
In XP, it is possible to boot using the Boot disk and start the Repair
Console (first opportunity installer gives you to Repair, not second one),
from which to change (or remove) Admin password if needed.
15. Some first-blush networking peeves.
I'm sure this is to be expected with ALL new OSes.
However, I had no problems with Apple Airport networking in XP. In fact, all
I had to do was pretty much take the wireless networking added during XP
install. I was on the web much sooner than I should have been, but still
with no problems.
14. Windows peer networking is still balky.
If that means "wireless" networking with the Airport wireless networking in
my iMac, see my comments about No. 15 above.
13. Network settings user experience went backwards.
12. Too many Network Control Panel applets, wizards and dialogs.
Any time I hear the word "too many", I immediately write off the rest of the
statement as "Personal Opinion", rather than "Fact".
11. Display settings have changed for no apparently good reason.
See my reply to No. 12 above, substituting the words "for no apparently good
reason" in the place of "too many", with the same comment about deleting the
rest of the statement.
If this means that the display settings you made to the Vista desktop, this
was even a problem with XP (in my case, extremely rarely), so I don't doubt
that it could easily happen with a new OS.
10. Where are the file menus?
"Alt-F"? (on a Mac keyboard, that would be "Option-F")
9. Windows Defender Beta 2 is buggy.
Why in God's Name use such a crappy security solution in the first place?
There are many decent malware solutions for Windows, including Vista. Though
they WILL cost money. (of course, you probably don't want to spend any money
to get decent security in Windows, because you think that Windows is somehow
not worth spending any money on). You will have the answer to that when you
get your first brower hijacking for failing to install ANY malware solution.
8. Problems without solutions.
That deserves no answer, since it defines no problems, or poses any
solutions.
7. Lack of Windows Sidebar Gadgets.
As they say, "time heals all wounds". In the meantime, just install Yahoo
Gadgets for free.
6. Media Center isn't all there and falls flat.
Well, considering that Windows Media Center presupposes an off-the-shelf
Windows Media Edition-compatible machine, I wouldn't doubt it.
Hint: why not CONFIGURE IT?
5. Faulty assumption on the Start Menu.
See my comment about Nos. 12+11 above, substituting "Faulty assumption" for
"apparently no good reason", keeping the rest of my statement.
Opinion, opinion, opinion, not fact. I thought Maccies loved "facts"
4. Installation takes forever.
Well, "forever" is kind of relative to whether or not you have to go to the
bathroom at the exact moment a popup dialog suddenly appears asking for user
input, or you decide to let the installer just sit there forever while you
take the family to the nearest Red Lobster, and come back and somehow find it
magically installed with the options you want.
Again, nothing but personal opinion, not facts.
3. Version control.
That must be one of those high-fallutin' computerese terms only geeks use.
Please explain for us common folks.
Also, please consider that Vista is still in beta, including its distribution
system, which currently only includes downloadable installers for MSDN
members with Operating System membership (like Apple Developers Network
subscription), or in the June Microsoft TechNet Subscription DVD, with a
download installer in a few weeks for the Community Public Preview, and more
than probably a link to get the DVD for a nominal media/shipping charge (XP
was only $10, if I remember correctly, and came via Fed-Ex within a week).
2. Price.
What price? As far as I know, Microsoft has not yet posted pricing
information on any edition of Windows Vista.
Why complain about what doesn't exist yet?
1. Little originality, sometimes with a loss of elegance.
Again, nothing but personal opinion, not fact.
Come on Maccies, WHERE are your FACTS about Vista? Surely you have them by
now? Oh, yeah, you refuse to read Microsoft's Web sites because of your
Maccie compulsive-obsessive behavioral issues.
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Donald L McDaniel
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