Oh! GLEE... M$oft is releasing their vaunted new OS !... Rush right out to get the latest ! ( Day 1 )...
Hmmmm ! Lot of my old reliable programs are " not compatible with Vista "
Cruise around trying to find " fixes " ! ( Day 2+ )...
Ok, finally figured out the "UAC" ( User... "Ask if he really wants to..." Control )... Now, if I really, really ( Really! ) didn't want to... then why did I ask in the first place ! ( gloom ! ) ( Week 5 )...
Found certain programs "balky" installing under Vista. Turning OFF "UAC" (temporarily) allowed the install to procede unimpeded. Turning "UAC" back ON, after the install, produced not a whimper, and the program ran flawlessly... Go figure ! ( 2nd Month )...
Now comes the "Real Story" - Was offered an "update" for a "Volcano Watch" live video program. ( The program was now offered in HD. ) " NO! says Vista, this program has not received the "Seal-of-Approval" from M$oft ! and I ( Vista ) am NOT going to allow you to install it ! "... Ok, says I, we'll try the "Turn OFF UAC ploy "... " NOPE !, NOPE !, I still am not going to allow you ( dumb user who purchased me in good faith ) to install this "non-approved" program because obviously you fail to realize these programs MUST receive the M$oft "blessing" before being allowed on the system! "... ( end of story ).
Now I could probably rant about some "conspiracy" within M$oft whereby they have found a way to insure software destined for their OS MUST receive their "Seal-of-Approval" ( Don't know if there is some kind of "fee" involved here or not. ) but that would be sheer speculation without a shred of evidence. ( Won't stand up in court, folks ! )
What I do know, is that the "new" Vista OS is "buggy", makes demands of the software to be run under it that often cause the programs to generate "warnings" ( Will Robinson ) like " Vista has changed your color scheme because certain elements of a running program are not compatible, and will change your color scheme back after the program ends. " ( Which slows things down and sometimes, depending on the program running, doesn't ever happen... )
Settings for specific window layouts seem to change arbitrarily from "Lists" to "Icons" to... ( I never know what the window will display and often end up changing it back to what I'd like it to be ! )
Some programming that worked together under XP ( in this instance a "video capture driver/software and a video editing software program now mysteriously DON'T !... And I'm, frankly, getting tired of having to circumvent Vista in order to do those things I was accustomed to being able to do under the "old" XP OS !...
In short, Vista has some visual "pizzazz" that is indeed impressive, but the problems caused by the "UAC" far offset these "niceties" ! I'm now running XP on a second machine and anxiously await the first ( perhaps of many ) "fixes" to come out of Redmond ! ( What's that ???... a rumor of yet another "NEW" OS in M$oft's pipeline... )
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Oh! GLEE ... M$oft is releasing their vaunted new OS ! ... Rush right out to get the latest ! ( Day 1 ) ...
Hmmmm ! Lot of my old reliable programs are " not compatible with Vista "
Cruise around trying to find " fixes " ! ( Day 2+ ) ...
Ok, finally figured out the "UAC" ( User ... "Ask if he really wants to ..." Control )... Now, if I really, really ( Really! ) didn't want to ... then why did I ask in the first place ! ( gloom ! ) ( Week 5 ) ...
Found certain programs "balky" installing under Vista. Turning OFF "UAC" (temporarily) allowed the install to procede unimpeded. Turning "UAC" back ON, after the install, produced not a whimper, and the program ran flawlessly ... Go figure ! ( 2nd Month )...
Now comes the "Real Story" - Was offered an "update" for a "Volcano Watch" live video program. ( The program was now offered in HD. ) " NO! says Vista, this program has not received the "Seal-of-Approval" from M$oft ! and I ( Vista ) am NOT going to allow you to install it ! " ... Ok, says I, we'll try the "Turn OFF UAC ploy " ... " NOPE !, NOPE !, I still am not going to allow you ( dumb user who purchased me in good faith ) to install this "non-approved" program because obviously you fail to realize these programs MUST receive the M$oft "blessing" before being allowed on the system! " ... ( end of story ).
Now I could probably rant about some "conspiracy" within M$oft whereby they have found a way to insure software destined for their OS MUST receive their "Seal-of-Approval" ( Don't know if there is some kind of "fee" involved here or not. ) but that would be sheer speculation without a shred of evidence. ( Won't stand up in court, folks ! )
What I do know, is that the "new" Vista OS is "buggy", makes demands of the software to be run under it that often cause the programs to generate "warnings" ( Will Robinson ) like " Vista has changed your color scheme because certain elements of a running program are not compatible, and will change your color scheme back after the program ends. " ( Which slows things down and sometimes, depending on the program running, doesn't ever happen ... )
Settings for specific window layouts seem to change arbitrarily from "Lists" to "Icons" to ... ( I never know what the window will display and often end up changing it back to what I'd like it to be ! )
Some programming that worked together under XP ( in this instance a "video capture driver/software and a video editing software program now mysteriously DON'T ! ... And I'm, frankly, getting tired of having to circumvent Vista in order to do those things I was accustomed to being able to do under the "old" XP OS ! ...
In short, Vista has some visual "pizzazz" that is indeed impressive, but the problems caused by the "UAC" far offset these "niceties" ! I'm now running XP on a second machine and anxiously await the first ( perhaps of many ) "fixes" to come out of Redmond ! ( What's that ??? ... a rumor of yet another "NEW" OS in M$oft's pipeline ... )