Re: 20 Things You Won't Like About Vista



In article <9kt082tdrtqcgj0qv60e9il8c11tbej0c1@xxxxxxx>,
tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:31:12 -0700, Timberwoof
<timberwoof.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Article:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&a
rticleId=9000829

Interesting Graph:
http://www.computerworld.com/html/collateral/msvistatour/02introchart.htm
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Slashdot discussion:
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/06/01/1638216.shtml

20. Minimum video system requirements are more like maximum.
19. Aero stratification will cause businesses woe.
18. User Account Controls $#^%!~\!!!.
17. Two words: Secure Desktop.
16. No way to access the Administrator account in Vista Beta 2.
15. Some first-blush networking peeves.
14. Windows peer networking is still balky.
13. Network settings user experience went backwards.
12. Too many Network Control Panel applets, wizards and dialogs.
11. Display settings have changed for no apparently good reason.
10. Where are the file menus?
9. Windows Defender Beta 2 is buggy.
8. Problems without solutions.
7. Lack of Windows Sidebar Gadgets.
6. Media Center isn't all there and falls flat.
5. Faulty assumption on the Start Menu.
4. Installation takes forever.
3. Version control.
2. Price.
1. Little originality, sometimes with a loss of elegance.

Discuss.

Sounds a lot like the Tiger list, only end users had to discover all
the bads the hard way.

Doesn't sound (or look) much like Tiger to me and I've been running it
since the day it came out.

--
George Graves
The health of our society is a direct result of the men
and women we choose to admire.
.



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