Re: Windows Vista beta 1
- From: "J. P. Morris" <jpm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:00:39 +0100
Polychromic wrote:
> Okay, I've had Vista installed now for a day and a half. It's not as
> crashy as the last build I tried. That's the good news.
>
> The bad news it is even more bloated and slow. Hopefully this will change
> when they recompile the parts with all the optimizations on and the
> debugging bits off. I first left it on all the default settings to try
> and see what new stuff there was. Erm, there's not any. Things are
> changed around, but nothing that I would call an improvement. Then I
> started turning off the crap to see if I could get it back to a usable
> form.
Remember, children; it cost as much to make Vista as it did to put a man on
the moon! And what does Microsoft have to show for it? Windows XP service
pack 3 from what I've heard. Thanks for confirming it, Poly :-)
> Ah, speaking of users, each user profile is now stored in
> C:\Users\<username> instead of in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>.
> All of them except the All Users profile that is. Yep, now there is a
> C:\Documents and Settings folder AND a C:\Users folder. I think this
> might just be an oversight. I hope it is. I always hated that long
> Documents and Settings folder name and would rather have a nice short
> Users instead.
I see they're getting there. It should have been /home/, though.
Do symbolic links work yet? Can you unmount and mount USB mass-storage
devices without having to unplug the device and plug it back in yet? Or
have they been wasting their billions trying to make transparent windows
like in KDE or Enlightenment?
> But there is no simple, usable List view available. Jim Allchin needs to
> be kicked in the nads if that was his idea.
Do you think that would do any good? Have you seen the man? He's more
undead than alive. White, pasty face and black, empty eyes.
>
> Oh well, perhaps Beta 2 will be better.
"Another fifty billion dollars down the drain." -- Walton Simons
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