Windows Vista - Not So Bad?

Shantyman writes "ZDNet has a counterpoint to the negative impressions of Vista's Beta 2 going around. Entitled Vista Beta 2, up close and personal, Ed Bott writes: 'I've spent the last three months running beta versions of Windows Vista on the PCs I use for everyday work. February and March were exasperating. April's release was noticeably better, and the Beta 2 preview - Build 5381, released to testers in early May - has been running flawlessly on my notebook for nearly three weeks.'"

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Not So Bad

[Roody Blashes]

It's not out yet, so it has no practical track record in real world use. It could just as easily be huge, steaming pile of crap as the work of God himself for all you know.

Re:Article is really a collection of screenshots

[NutscrapeSucks]

The only difference is that it is highly unlikely that there was any payment received for the reviews(to be a touch cynical).

OK, as designated "shillboy", let me offer this advice to all -- If this article is pissing you off, you better just unplug the Internet for the next six months, because you head is going to fucking explode by the time Windows comes out.

Re: Gross Distortion of Reality

[mpapet]

MS produces some of the programs most capable of performing correctly in limited user situations I've ever seen

I'm sorry, what version of Windows is that? Where can I get one? MS Office certainly won't work right either.

As an sysadmin, I tell you from personal experience this is IMPOSSIBLE in windows 2k/xp. That's why NIST has a huge document on how one "secures" a desktop OS never designed for that purpose. In the *nix world, it works right.

Maybe you are on a domain? Things work better in a domain. The OS is not designed to do what you falsely claim it can.