Aah the joys of Vista

[alexander]

If you know me, you know how much sarcasm is packed behind the topic. I will not rant on the stupidity of the operating environment of Vista and the so-called DWM (Microsoft at its creative best, stands for Desktop Window Manager), it totally blows, take a look at Beryl and AIGLX project and if you are still not satisfied with windows that burn down when you close them or a transparent cube for desktop switching that has a panoramic 360% background, check out kibba dock and its rope model... and it still takes less resources then vista without having all shiny features enabled (470M).

So things that microsoft failed to fix before the release:

Resource Usage - if you thought XP was bad, you are in for a ride, Vista takes up 460-470 megs of ram after boot, with no shiny features enabled, and 660-670 megs of ram with all shiny features running (and shiny features are what microsoft-addicts are buying this memory hogg for)

File System - i really dont beleive that programmers working for microsoft are stupid, but can anyone explain to me WHY they can not write a single file system that does not fragment? So then why no need to defragmentat? Well it is hidden, but the system actually defrags the drives in the background of you using the computer... hmm... that wouldn't be why you need a 2.4GHZ+ processor and 2 gigs of ram to run this thing would it?

Selling Point - it is still "Buy this resource bohemyth and buy the newest hardware for it too"

Office - it needs to run on XP, it is a stupid decision to have it only operate in the Vista environment, someone please HACK it for the sake of all Windows users who will switch to Vista for Office

Confirmation Popups - don't get too carried away with trying to get something done, for the simplest tasks of viewing contents of directories you may need to click yes about 3 times... same goes for trying to browse the net and so forth...


...ugh... *walks away shaking his head*

[C1ay]

Hey, at least Service Pack 1 for Vista has been released

[Buffy]

And the pricing? Yikes! The games played with Office that alex mentioned are *necessary* to get people to move. Most of my big customers laugh about "Vista migration plans." One said, "yes, we have it scheduled for the next millenium since it will take that long to pay for it plus replace everyone's hardware."

What are they thinking?!?!?

Neo-con marketing,
Buffy

[Tormod]

There is a new version of windows out? M u s t b u y!!! Will it work on my MacBook?

[Killean]

I just read recently on my repair receipt, that the place I bought my laptop from is offering free (or at least greatly reduced prices) upgrades to Vista. This has peaked my interest some. I have heard tons against it, seen many features for it, and cannot help but be curious about it. And I would like to try it, even if only once and for a month or so. Or maybe a couple weeks... I've really been into Half Life 2, and that requires me to shut down every non-essential program and visual style in Win XP. I can only imagine how much worse the situation will be with Aero on, or this so called other bloat you speak of.

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by Tormod

There is a new version of windows out? M u s t b u y!!! Will it work on my MacBook?

Yes, just install the service pack from my previous post...

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by Killean

I've really been into Half Life 2, and that requires me to shut down every non-essential program and visual style in Win XP. I can only imagine how much worse the situation will be with Aero on, or this so called other bloat you speak of.

Game developer says Vista ruins computer game play

[Zythryn]

Originally Posted by Killean

I've really been into Half Life 2, and that requires me to shut down every non-essential program and visual style in Win XP. I can only imagine how much worse the situation will be with Aero on, or this so called other bloat you speak of.

If this is due to memory or video memory required by the game pushing your current system to the max, I definately wouldn't try it with Vista.

Vista is very visually intensive and a system that doesn't run well now, will run worse with Vista due to the higher demands of the operating system.

Personally, I am looking forward to trying it out. But will likely be waiting for a few months for the first few patches/service packs.

[InfiniteNow]

Billy Gates is on a media tour. Was on The Daily Show last night pimping it, and will be in Europe doing the same for the next several days. It's like they're marketing a blockbuster release.

[TheBigDog]

We are in the middle of rolling out new PC's to allof our North American facilities. We do this every 3 years. It is 50/50 if we use Vista in the next rollout. My computers at home are not capable of running Vista, so they will stay XP Home for the rest of their useful lives.

I look forward to using Vista, but it will probalby be some time. Lucky for me I can make myself one of the pilot testers for Vista when we trial it for work. I anticipate it will be well received in the end.

Bill