Dennis,
Agreed on most points, but I'll add:
1. That's not Microsoft's fault - that's simply down to lazy software developers and driver developers. Nothing more and nothing less.
2. People tend to hate change. The interesting thing I see is that people don't seem to ***** about swapping say from XP to OS X - even though they are radically different in UI.
3. 2GB will see Vista run fine. That's not a lot of RAM imho - most machines ship with 2GB these days (including laptops).
4. They are there for a reason. Microsoft has been lax security wise for many, many years. I always chuckle when I hear about viruses etc. Funny, Linux, BSD, Solaris and OS X all have very little issues in this respect. Better security by design. Microsoft Windows was never designed to be a secure system, and Microsoft have really hacked it to make it more secure. Inelegant hacks I might add. If you've ever used a UNIX, you'll understand why things are they way they are. It's for a good reason. I would NEVER recommend people disable UAC.
5. Aero is in reality uneccessary, I agree, but, looks count. OS X looks perty, so does Linux with beryl etc. Microsoft is simply keeping up with the joneses, and you can't blame them in all honesty. If you want good memory management, Windows is not the platform to be on! Oh, and get rid of that GUI whilst you're at it...
Microsoft and Vista have been very unfairly bashed imho.
Dave
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Originally Posted by Dennis79
I think Vista is fine.
The main criticisms for Vista are:
1. When it was first released there were many driver issues which meant alot of people were no longer able to run programs, printers and other add ons. In some cases it was just a matter of updating the drivers but in many cases, mainly older programs and equipment, the user was forced to buy a new version of whatever they were using for it to work.
2. There are many changes. Compared to XP, the menus changed dramatically in looks, location and the sub menus. Many people couldn't find settings etc they wanted to change. Over time this isn't a problem.
3. It uses LOTS of computer resources. You need to have lots of RAM to run it properly. In some cases this means upgrading the entire machine as well as windows, mostly it was just a RAM upgrade. An easy fix but a forced one.
4. The emphasis on security went a bit overboard. All the permission settings drive you bananas. If you can spend sometime looking through the control panel menus you can disable almost all of them. Eventually an easy fix.
5. There were unecessary features. Things like Aero are bit of a waste of time as you can acheive the same by holding down Alt and pressing tab. Aero uses alot of memory so many major gamers and programmers were peeved at this.
At the end of the day the only problem I have is the ocassional permission thing popping up (or when setting up a network game, it doesn't pop up at all, very frustrating) and the over use of my computers resources. I'm not that concerned by either of those.
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