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Skriven 2007-02-10 00:12:04 av Geo. (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 15948 av mike (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Dim Vista
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From: "Geo." <georger@nls.net>

"mike" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
news:dv1qs29vp20slogsc1ntb1umlj7rlnvhnk@4ax.com...

> Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst
> makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out.

It's way less annoying than XP, what's his problem?

> Example: If malware somehow gets into your machine, Windows Firewall
> will not stop it from making outbound Internet connections to do its
> evil deeds.

Nothing changed here.

> If you turn off that firewall in favor of a better one, the
> Windows Firewall control panel will admonish: "Your computer is not
> protected; turn on Windows Firewall." But the Windows Security Center
> will correctly tell you that a firewall is on and that you shouldn't run
> two at a time. Call it convistancy.

I forget what I did but I shut it up. It's not bothered me since the first
week. In fact nothing has nagged me or pestered me in any way. It just takes a
little work to shut off the annoying features but at least it's possible to
shut them off.

> Gaffes like this make you wonder if security really is improved as much
> as Microsoft claims.

So far, I'd rank it more secure than either W2K or XP as long as you don't
count giving microsoft absolute power over the computer a risk.

> As usual, things Microsoft was touting last time have mysteriously gone
> away in favor of putative new wonders. Windows XP's heralded "task-based
> interface" often let you perform actions by picking them from a list.
> Now many of those actions have disappeared--except where they haven't.

Oh and XP didn't do this over W2K? Come on, it didn't bother you last time
what's the problem with a bit of change now?

> Likewise, Control Panel options have been totally rejiggered yet again
> for no apparent reason.

Yeah, but with the exception of one extra click on "classic control panel"
that's not an issue. Is it really that hard to click one extra time?

> The new desktop search features are a mess, thanks in part to
> inscrutable indexing defaults and options.

So turn the indexing off.

> Windows Mail is a mild reworking of Outlook Express whose big new
> feature is a spam filter that in my tests flagged nonspam as spam and
> vice versa an unacceptable 10% of the time.

Well obviously you need an @nls.net address. <g>

> The bare-bones word
> processor WordPad used to be able to open Microsoft Word files. No more.
> What possible rationale could there be for "fixing" that, except to
> force users to shell out for the real thing?

Hmmm.. I hadn't noticed since I have Word 2007 on this machine but I would
guess that could be a pita. OK one valid complaint so far.

> Potentially exciting improvements keep coming up short. The speech
> recognition system's clever design lets you control the computer via
> voice and dictate into programs like Word. It did pretty well at
> understanding me even when I used a less than optimal built-in
> microphone instead of a headset. But my enthusiasm turned to dust when
> the software for correcting inevitable mistakes locked up
> repeatedly--even when it understood what I was saying.

How's the speech in XP?

> Many touted improvements, like the Web browser and media player, have
> been available for XP for months.

That's funny, I use neither. Maxthon and Media player classic here.

> One minor winner is Vista-only: file
> lists that update their contents automatically. You no longer have to
> hit View and Refresh to see files added since you last opened the list
> window. Macs, of course, have done this for years.

Windows 2000 did this as well, didn't XP?

> Still with us: program crashes, followed by the machine's refusal to
> shut down until you lean on the power button awhile.

My thinkpad has no problem with shutdown, power management works perfectly.

> Should you upgrade your current machine? Are you nuts? Upgrading is
> almost always a royal pain.

Thinkpad came with XP and I did an upgrade, got warned about a few things that
were installed on the thinkpad, trashed them, ran upgrade again, I said yes,
went to eat, came back and it was done.

> Many older boxes are too wimpy for Vista,

Many NT4 boxes couldn't run W2K, the move to XP was minor so you didn't see
this issue there but now you see it again. This is nothing new, MS has been
accused of creating the need for new Intel chips for years. Why do you think
they call it wintel?

> My recommendation: Don't even consider updating an old machine to Vista,
> period. And unless you absolutely must, don't buy a new one with Vista
> until the inevitable Service Pack 1 (a.k.a. Festival o' Fixes) arrives
> to combat horrors as yet unknown.

Wait for SP1? Hell with W2K I waited for SP3..

> I suggested to one Windows product manager that if the company were
> truly serious about security, Vista might offer a simple way to delete
> files securely and eliminate all traces of identity and passwords so you
> could safely pass the machine on or sell it years from now.

What's wrong with a simple format?

> As Bill Gates winds down his roles at Microsoft, Windows Vista may be
> the chief software architect's swan song.

More like Microsoft's swan song, the world cannot allow a single company to
have the power to shut down 95% of the worlds computers, that's just wrong.

Geo.

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