20 Things You Won't Like About Vista

feminazi writes "Computerworld's Scot Finnie details 20 things you won't like in Windows Vista, with a visual tour to prove it. He says that MS has favored security over end-user productivity, making the user feel like a rat caught in a maze with all the protect-you-from-yourself password-entry and 'Continue' boxes required by the User Account Controls feature." From the article: "In its supreme state of being, Microsoft knows precisely what's best for you. It knows that because its well-implemented new Sleep mode uses very little electricity and also takes only two or three seconds to either shut down or restart, you want to use this mode to 'turn off' your computer, whether you realize it or not. It wants to teach you about what's best. It wants to make it harder for you to make a mistake."

Comments

Re:You are not a Windows user.

[shawn(at)fsu]

Hmmmm.
Yeah.
I'm not a grammar expert but I'm pretty sure you don't capitalize the F in "F**k you".

Re:I am really itching to get Vista

[Ignignot]

niggle (ng'l)
intr.v., -gled, -gling, -gles.
1.To be preoccupied with trifles or petty details.
2.To find fault constantly and trivially; carp. See synonyms at quibble.

I don't think that means what you think it means. (Since it is a verb)
I think you actually meant "quibble"
Sorry to be such a niggle though.

Is today opposite day?

[Soporific]

Is today opposite day and I missed the message? Or maybe hell is freezing over...

~S

Re:Slashdot through the looking glass?

[rholliday]

Interesting - I'm reading an article on slashdot that's criticising MS for favouring security over..... well anything!

Exactly! That's the first thing I thought when I read this blurb. I'm not even going to bother to read the article. You can't have it both ways; don't criticize Microsoft for favoring usability over security for years, then flip-flop when they finally listen.

Hidden cost of Windows

[Spy der Mann]

"Price.
Vista will be the first expensive Microsoft product in history"

So far the botnets which fill us with SPAM and are running on XP, 2000 and 98 cost millions (if not billions) of dollars a-year in bandwidth, productivity and time.

This is the hidden cost of Windows. Now can someone explain to me why we have to KEEP PAYING this cost, regardless of whether we buy Vista or Not?

IMO, Microsoft should GIVE AWAY vista in punishment for their lousy OS design in the past few years.

Re:Here are at least 4 or 5...

[DoctorDyna]

You know, it's fucking funny listning to people piss and moan about windows requirements, when a game they bought a year ago said the same thing on the box. Why won't people understand that most of the requirements of Vista, as far as hardware goes, is simply due to the gui changes. Congradulations retards, you are successfully complaining about Windows having the possibility of using all that gaming hardware you all have. If you don't have the "recommended" (read Aero UI Capable) then the system turns it off automatically during install, and you are left with...

What looks like Windows 2000/xp with most of the changes below the skin.

which, ironically should, but doesn't, shut all the other "we would rather have had patches and fixes for XP" people up. I give up, I really give up. The "advanced" user crowd is impossible. They are either completely misinformed, or completely jaded. Aren't there any people left capable of being objective at all? FFS!

Re:Slashdot through the looking glass?

[mrbooze]

Since when does Sleep not work in Windows? I've been sleeping/hibernating my Windows laptops pretty much multiple times a day for years. Closing the lid is all I ever do when I'm done working.

Getting it to work in *Linux* has been a constant struggle, but I haven't had any problems with it in Windows.