LOL! Thanks H0ughy
Gotta be pulled into line sometimes.....
What most don't understand is that there is SUCH a plethora of hardware components out there, which are stacked into cabinets in a myriad of ways, and the poor operating system is expected to hold it all together for you and not make a mistake. This "plethora" has increased exponentially over the past decade. Pretty damn difficult job, no? OS's aren't "getting worse", they're getting FAR better. Vista is such a leap forward over XP it's ridiculous. If you're having a personal problem with its security - turn it down. As Doug very rightly says, Vista is the first personal desktop OS that isn't a butchered business one squished into a box for Joe Average. Setting the security standards must have been a pretty difficult decision for MS bods, who obviously knew that there would be a backlash against it from users of previous systems. I personally think that it's too tight - but then again I'm an IT professional and should know what is good for me and what is not. Mr and Mrs Average don't, so Vista over-protects them by default - and so it should.
Yes, it needs room to move in order to work. It does so much more - so fellas - give it the room it needs and it'll fly. Until you have this room, it's probably advisable to stay with XP, otherwise you'll be frustrated. Don't blame the OS - blame your old hardware. Until you have need to update, don't! Simple. The thing that MS didn't get right this time was the time it's taking people to graduate to their next level of hardware.
I opened a box in my office at IBM Sydney in 1983 when I was working there, that had a big label on the side saying "IBM Personal Computer". It was the first "PC" to ever land in Australia. Being mainframe-trained, we engineers said to ourselves"
I'll never catch on", laughing at the little beige box. How wrong we were. How far has both hardware and software architecture come since then? PLENTY!
All that from me.... and I'm a UNIX guy! LOL!