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How Vista Disappoints
MCSEBear writes "Writer Paul Thurrott has given Microsoft a verbal dressing down for what has become of Windows Vista. He details Microsoft's broken promises over the years since Longhorn/Vista was first previewed back in 2003. He demonstrates where current Vista builds fail to live up to Microsoft's current hype of the much reduced feature set. From the article: 'I don't hate Windows Vista, and I certainly don't hate Microsoft for disappointing me and countless other customers with a product that doesn't even come close to meeting its original promises. I'm sure the company learned something from this debacle, and hopefully it will be more open and honest about what it can and cannot do in the future ... It some ways, Windows Vista actually will exceed Mac OS X and Linux, but not to the depth we were promised. Instead, Windows Vista will do what so many other Windows releases have done, and simply offer consumers and business users a few major changes and many subtle or minor updates. That's not horrible. It's just not what was promised.'"
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Chrust dude shut the hell up your crazy mouth.
-the overweight mom Connie B.
Chrust? Learn to spell fuck face.
"Introduces the new user security model similar to Un*x, only 30 years later. But it is (so far) incredibly inane in its interaction model with the user (from the article):"
Get off of it. NT has had a fine grained, multi-user security model since it's inception, 13 years ago. In fact, until Unix got ACL's, I would say NTFS has a better file system security model.
UAP is a means of managing access to administrative rights without forcing the user to always operate as Administrator. Other than OS X, I know of no Unix-like OS that even attempts this.
Yes yes Mac Os X is very stable on Apple's "own" hardware. It's also almost virus free cos people don't bother to write virus to such a marginal OS. The thing is that once you start running it on other hardware it becomes way more unstable than Windows XP. Windows XP with SP2 and a decent security solution (like F-Secure :) ) is infact a very good OS. It's beyond me why Microsoft doesn't buy F-secure and make it a part of Vista. Just rename it to Vista Secure or something. Linux is good too but still somewhat buggy. Not a day goes by that I don't get some sort of error/crash message with Suse, something that hasn't happened with my XP MCE 2005 install in over a year..
At least for Windows drivers exist? Yes, but do they work? Not all the time. A simple USB pad converter driver refused to install (complaining about a missing .ini) until I moved the setup program from the CD to the desktop.
With the fact that they're close, you can get absolutely crap drivers from even "respected" hardware makers (ATI for example, I've never seen a single release of their drivers that didn't suck).
So yes, driver exist, but they suck. At least on Linux they can get fixed eventually, while with the vendors you're stuck.
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You are a very sad person.
You can't tell by the score 5/5.
Everything is judged by a curve. Even C level Harvard graduates and business failures can be President nowadays.