Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Vista Annoyances

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Joseph Ondrus wrote:

> I don't want to say that Vista can currently hold a match to XP, but it 
> does make a good operating system.

[snip long but worthy discussion of Vista]

> No, it isn't plug and play like XP, but give it time.


The thing is, Joseph, Vista should have been *way*, *way* better than XP 
in a hundred fascinating ways.  This is *computing* -- the fastest moving, 
changing, advancing, amazing field in all of human history.  There were 
more than 5 years between the releases of XP and Vista!!  Despite that 
long, long, long time, I do not know a *single* XP user who has upgraded 
to Vista and Vista has been out for a full year now!!

The reason that Vista totally sucks is that it is not anything like what 
it could have been or should have been.

You pointed out some of the driver problems.  Another thing that I hear 
people complaining about is a large number of pop-up dialog boxes asking 
"are you sure you want to do that?"  I suppose the legal department 
recommended that these be used.  Example:

http://zestyping.livejournal.com/196511.html

That's bad too.  So how can we understand the current situation with 
Microsoft and Vista?  I think problems have arisen because Microsoft is a 
monopoly and it will make a lot of money even from a bad product.  They 
focus their efforts not on providing a better user experience but by 
increasing their power and influence in the industry -- hardware and 
software makers have to comply with Vista requirements or users will be 
warned by Vista dialog boxes that the product is questionable and the 
company will get calls which cost them money and user satisfaction will 
decline.  Microsoft also wants to reduce both its own legal liability and 
its support calls by prompting a gazillion times for every slightly 
questionable operation.  They want to help RIAA and MPAA by placing more 
DRM-related crap into the OS.  And so on -- but there is nothing new in 
Vista for us, the consumers.

More about Vista:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista

Mike

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