At 09:10 PM 05/09/2007, Greg Sevart wrote:
Stability? This machine is probably among the top 2 or 3 most stable systems
I've ever used as a primary workstation. That speaks volumes.
If XP basically never crashes (and it doesn't, if you infect it,
screw it up, or run it on failing hardware) then how can Vista be
more stable than that? No, I've never seen Vista crash - but I've
never seen XP crash except when I forced it to or in one of the above
situations.
As for IE being more secure - who in their right mind uses that POS
anyway? It's more proof that MS hates its customer base. I can
imagine the meeting for the UI.
"Firefox is eating our market share. What should we do?"
"I know, let's change the interface completely to make it really hard
for new users (all four of them) to learn FF once they've learned using IE7."
"But won't that irritate the old users and drive them to FF?"
"Ahh, screw'em. If they don't want to learn, they don't deserve to
use our products."
Speed? I find Vista is as fast--if not faster--on very good hardware
relative to XP.
Really? I've never seen that.
Driver issues? All my devices work--and I'm running x64. I did have to dump
a 5-year old $60 scanner. Darn. I haven't seen any driver issues that are
So you had driver issues, but you decided a new scanner was worth
it. I agree that people can't complain when an old piece of hardware
didn't work, but the driver issue thing does exist. If you don't
want to buy new hardware, then don't get Vista.
I don't know enough about the DRM stuff to comment, but the issues
I've seen are:
1)Graphics are harder to read (colours aren't different enough in many cases.)
2)Vista is noticably slower - I've seen UAC (wasn't that the name of
the company in DOOM?) take five seconds to bring up the continue or
cancel box. That's pathetic.
3)The 3D interface does zero for usability. Same for the silly
translucent windows.
4)I do like the ALT-Tab interface - about time we can ALT-Tab to the desktop.
5)Older hardware doesn't work, but current hardware appears to be
fine, provided you go get the recent drivers. Yes, it's fair that
old hardware doesn't work, but it is an added cost when you have to
replace your perfectly good printer/scanner/whatever.
6)Stupid stuff - when running defrag, Windows is completely unable to
tell you how much time it will take or the percentage remaining. It
actually says "this may take minutes or hours." Moronic.
T
