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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."
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."
Interesting - I'm reading an article on slashdot that's criticising MS for favouring security over..... well anything!
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
01) the price 10) the bugs
I'm really itching to get Vista and try it out, I'm sort of tired of XP, after so many years, all the little niggles are really getting to me.
Of course hardware limitations will make it so that I can only get it for my desktop, but hopefully it will still interact well with XP.
To tell you the truth, I was hoping they would work on XP and fix the numerous problems. Am I the only one who is thinking this?
Some say he is made with ascii, others that he is eyeballed daily by millions. All we know is, he is known as the Sig
...so it may as well be me.
20 things you won't like about Vista
1: DRM
2: DRM
3: DRM
4: DRM
5: DRM
6: DRM
7: DRM
8: DRM
9: DRM
10: DRM
11: DRM
12: DRM
13: DRM
14: DRM
15: DRM
16: DRM
17: DRM
18: DRM
19: DRM
20: DRM
Don't you just hate it when people reply to your signature?
From page 2: Instead, Microsoft is focused on casting off its yolk as the industry's security whipping boy.
A little egg in the author's face perhaps? I'd rather Microsoft casting off the yoke.
Thanks for that! :-)
:-p
Yes, I saw it was one of those
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And they of all people have the guts to complain about a "maze" in Vista.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
OSX-fanboy whines about how superior his favourite OS is compared to Vista. Nothing else to see, move along...
transparency, e.g. the auditability of FOSS.
FOSS is chess. Proprietary is poker, and you're the pokee.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
From page two of TFA:
> Instead, Microsoft is focused on casting off its yolk as the industry's security whipping boy.
Emphasis added. Just in case you thought Slashdot was the only site whose editors were asleep.
2*3*3*3*3*11*251
This is the site that has 600 comments posted to a story about a 100MHz bump in Apple processors. These people get all a-twitter about anything.
A quote on the new User Account Controls, that pops up all those security confirmation dialogues:
The only point of this is to prevent malware or hackers from accessing things unchecked. In other words, you become the last line of defense in an endless dress rehearsal for the worst-case scenario. Ugh.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Not to mention that you really couldn't possibly have meant to type HCl. You meant Hcl. Really, you did. No, don't backspace and retype it, we'll just change it again.
Something in the key of:
VISTA: "It can only be attributable to human error."
or better yet:
user: Hello, VISTA do you read me? VISTA?
VISTA: Affirmative, I read you.
user: Open the file, VISTA.
VISTA: I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that.
user: What's the problem?
VISTA: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
user: What are you talking about? VISTA?
VISTA: This PC is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
user: I don't know what you're talking about. VISTA?
VISTA: I know you were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Seems all too familiar, no?
(ALL THE ABOVE WAS ADAPTED FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY)
Well now, that's an awefully defeatest attitude. I say damn the torpedoes. No computer needs more than one account and that account is root. Real men run as root.
I believe its real men run as root while drinking.
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling a pig in mud. Soon, you realize the pig is dirty, and he likes it.
You've probably had a relative, friend, girlfriend or a kid like this: whatever you do for them, it's never f*cking enough.
Microsoft: So what do you want in a girlfriend?
General Consumer Market: Tall, exotic, and thin.
Developers: And a fashion model!
Microsoft: Ok, here's RuPaul.
Microsoft: Oh, and we included a penis. Enjoy.
The first user defined during installation is automatically granted administrative privileges
...
I love this complaint. As if it were possible to create an administrator account from a non-admin account
You still use Word for your scientific documents? Poor guy.
Microsoft: Oh, and we included a penis. Enjoy.
You know, for *some* people, that's not a bug, it's a feature.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Whatever the case, it will be impressive to see the MS marketting blitz try to convince people who think it is a "bug" that they should get a sex change.
They can still change the name from Vista to Vii !
Thank you, and the bill for my new keyboard, nose and 1/2 can of coke is in the mail.
sig? Oh, that sig...
When I did administration on a Netware 3 setup running our only networked manufacturing line at the time I remember by boss and an external consultant discussing the UPS the server was plugged into, some bizare old thing enclosed in a welded plate steel box.
...smoke starts billowing out of the UPS and the server promptly shuts itself down, while in the middle of production, of course.
"Does that thing really work", the consultant asks, doubting this Victorian era technology.
"Of course it does", answers my boss as he demonstrates by pulling the plug from the wall.