I spent a few days this week trying to actually work on a Vista box. (As opposed to what could have been, at the time, fairly described as the knee-jerk, ripthatpieceofcrudoutandinstallsomethingelsebeforeIpuke reactions I’ve had after brief exposures to Vista in the past.) I really did try to give it a fair shake this time.
What a pile of junk!
It crippled a nice, fast, 64-bit computer. More resource sucking eye-candy isn’t going to fix the problem, but that seems to be where MSFT is headed.
Well that’s just great. NOT. How can a company with so many highly paid people put out such garbage? One Vista is bad enough. How could they possibly repeat that error??? Unbelievable!
When I need to use Windows for a specific application, I just turn on Parallels and run Vista simultaneously on my Mac, then I turn Windows off again and live in peace. The great thing about doing it this way is that both operating systems run at full speed (no emulation) and can run simultaneously and transparently. Only the application interface gives away whether it is a Windows or Macintosh application, and switching between them is seamless. The best thing is that it never crashes, unlike typical windows hardware. I have had this computer running 24/7 for almost two years without a single operating system-related hardware crash.
Best line in the whole article:
“I was looking for a “mea culpa” and some solid integration tools and compatibility features. What I got was a prettier GUI and new ways to share music with my dog. Ugh!”
It’s hardly the most original thing to say but until MS eliminates or at least begins to phase out the registry every subsequent version of Windows will be more of the same.
Memo to MS: can you issue the next edition with at least two flavors?
Flavor A: Windows 7 for the half-simple. Panders like a Dem politician. Lots of fuzzy-wuzzy dialogs with rubbish like “I want to listen to music”....”I want to send e-mail.” I want I want I want!
Flavor B: Give the interface dialog writers the day off. I don’t need dialogs that imply that I’m an idiot. Autoplay nothing. If I want to launch something I’ll click on it, thank you very much.
Microsoft has written themselves into a corner from which they cannot escape. It is simply not possible for them to do what needs to be done, which is prune about 95% of the code and become lean and fast.
Not gonna happen. Eventually, something will replace them. There will be a whole lot of suffering between now and then.
Oh my. Another Microsoft bashing thread. Just be glad you’re in a free country where you have choices (well at least until January 20,2009).
In our household, we bought two new XP desktops and an XP laptop a coupla months before it was no longer offered, we have zero problems with them, and we’re very happy.
No Visduh, No Visduh Redux ...
Oh come on! Microsoft has the technology and expertise to do a lot better than this. It must be a management problem.
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I have 32 bit Vista on an Asus laptop, and a dual XP/Fedora system on a 3 year old PC. Vista is a hog, but it works fine given 3 GB of memory. Doesn’t crash often—and if there’s trouble with an app, the system can usually recover and close it. One thing they fixed in Vista, which they could have fixed in XP but chose not to, is the smoothness of font display in many apps. Of course, Linux, through the Xorg effort, had that fixed up years ago.
I view Vista as a product reintroduction to raise revenues, and I’m afraid from this article that W7 sounds like more of the same.
Why does Microsoft keep trying stuffing the latest version of “bloat ware” down out throats? The XP-Pro, sp3 OS on my computer fits my needs. I need lots of data capacity, I do not have a need to support big heavy graphics. My computer is a little old and only has a 1.8 ghz processor with 2 GB of RAM and 2 hard drives totaling 160 GB. My external hard drive is 500 GB. The total package works well for me. (and it doesn’t crash, all that often.)
Am I the only person on the planet who loves Vista? I have three machines equipped with it and have never had a lockup in a year of operation. It does anything I want to do. And what the heck is so great about Mac for twice the cost? I don’t get it. I can get a brand new Dell desktop or laptop for $500 ready to go out of the box. What does a Mac cost and what will it do that I can’t do with my Dell?
I think this Microsoft bashing is stupid, stupid, stupid.
Not that I think MS is gonna be able to pull their heads out of their collective arses... but you never know.