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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."
I can think of more than 20 ....
Congrats to this article's author. You set out to tear Vista up, and you did it. Golf clap for you. You wanted to write a snarky, snide article with a french word thrown in here and there, and you did. I'll follow your example.
The problem is you're picking out things you dislike with 'proof,' yet it's painfully obvious you have no experience actually administrating a Windows environment. A blog about "Windows" doesn't automatically make you an IT admin.
This problem is likely to grow over time, as more business-class PCs are equipped with 128MB or more of video memory.
What, are you rubber stamping computer orders? I order what I need, dude, and if you're with a company that's forcing video RAM on you, leave.
This protected list is extremely long in Vista Beta 2, including Control Panels for Windows Firewall, Scanners and Cameras, Parental Controls, iSCSI Initiator, Device Manager, BitLocker drive encryption and Add Hardware.
So...anything 99% of my users at work won't be doing on a normal basis is protected by the popup boxes you so loathe. In fact, from your quote here, in a normal work day all but one of my users will never see or use any of the items on that list. Yet your claim is that the boxes are so ubiquitous they interfered with the normal operation of the computer.
I think no.
Of course, it is possible to turn off User Account Controls. It's what's behind the "Change security settings" option on the opening page of the User Accounts Control Panel. Making it impossible to turn off this feature, without hiding the Administrator log-in, would have been a better choice.
No, it wouldn't. Not even for Beta testers. You are not better than everyone else. Neither am I. Don't run as root. Don't deactivate UAC. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to run as root.
Windows peer networking is still balky.
The peer networking at my office is not balky. It works flawlessly and seamlessly. I've established that you're not a Windows user.
Bah. More from page 7 on later.
ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
See the topic.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Yes, but on the other hand, a lot of the gripes mentioned are meaningless rearrangement of menus of the kind Microsoft always goes through. It must be a good way to get a load of extra money from MCSE training or something.
Apple: Hey general consumer market -- we've got good security that isn't annoying, our graphics aren't just "like" OSX, they are OSX, we've had a good sleep mode since forever, and we can run more games than you think (really)!
Developers -- we've got a programming model that uses standards (e.g. OpenGL, zeroconf, etc.) where possible, compiles to native code, and has APIs that don't break backwards compatibility as often. Sure, if you want to use the newest APIs (e.g. Core*) your users have to run the latest version, but at least those APIs complement all the other ones that have always been there, so you don't have to rewrite the rest of your code too.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
That's why I'm making more money working with Windows than Linux? Good analogy!
Bah. If people are content to use Windows, and willing to put up with all the crap that it entails, who am I to tell them they are wrong?
If somebody asks me why I use Macs, I'm happy to tell them, but what's the point in "evangelizing" for OS X or Linux? It's not like Steve Jobs sends me a check every time one of my friends becomes a "switcher."
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
You do realize that Open Source devs *like* to program, right?
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Interesting how I would say almost the same thing, except in reverse.
First, I must say that I don't use laptops. I like power, not portability.
Now, I use a PC at home. My school runs Macs. I shut off my box at home, not because of stability issues, but because of heat (haven't installed new fan) and parental issues. Since I got XP (had ME for several years, not by choice), I have not had one bluescreen. Granted, I've customized it a bit (in a few weeks, I'll be allowed to replace the shell), but it works well. There are some stupid things about Windows, but we're not talking about those now. I do update Windows, and install a whole bunch of crap. I haven't reformatted my hard drive for several years, and I pretty much don't uninstall anything.
At school, I was taking two computer-ish classes this year: multimedia and computer graphics. Multimedia has been a fight with our computers all year. The room(s) are filled with brand-new G5's and them tower-thingies. I don't remember what they are; I'm just told that they are the best desktops Apple makes. Our computers all have different problems. Mine won't connect to the network sometimes, and certain web sites are inaccesible (no, it's not the proxy). My friend's comp freezes every 30 secs. It goes on and on. And whenever we have a problem, Tech Support comes and gives us a new one. After a while, though, we decided that we would rather have the same problem than trying to figure out what was wrong with the new one. Oh, and if it isn't shut off sometime before 5th period (after being turned on in the morning), we have to manually force it off and wait 5 or so minutes so that it will log in (to a local account).
We have had the same problems in graphics. I could also go on about iMovie, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Painter, but this isn't about the apps or the OS. Oh, and the dvd burners are all crap. Even my teacher's brand new iBook won't burn dvds, after 1/2 year of use. I've long forgotten what my original point was, but it boils down to this: Macs suck.
have you read the Moderation Guidelines Addendum?
Now you've got it, and you're still bitching. Cripes, you can't find anything good about them! The least you can do is admit you're deliberately on the attack. All this "informational bulletin propaganda disguised as legitimate criticism" is getting a bit old, don't you think?
Just make a "Microsoft-bashing" department, and be blatant about it! Stop hiding behind the ineffective veneer of objectivity, you pussies.