[LINK] 20 Things You Won't Like About Windows Vista

[Rick Welykochy]

Finally, someone who knows Vista and uses it has written up the top 20 things
that might drive you mad when using Vista.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000829&pageNumber=1

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nffh8

Be aware that the article was written back in June 2006 and is based on a beta
version of the OS. Microsoft has taken some complaints on board and made modifications
in the first release.

Countdown Summary, in article order:

20. Minimum video system requirements are more like maximum.
19. Aero stratification will cause businesses woe.
18. User Account Controls $#^%!~\!!!.
17. Two words: Secure Desktop.
16. No way to access the Administrator account in Vista Beta 2.
15. Some first-blush networking peeves.
14. Windows peer networking is still balky.
13. Network settings user experience went backwards.
12. Too many Network Control Panel applets, wizards and dialogs.
11. Display settings have changed for no apparently good reason.
10. Where are the file menus?
  9. Windows Defender Beta 2 is buggy.
  8. Problems without solutions.
  7. Lack of Windows Sidebar Gadgets.
  6. Media Center isn't all there and falls flat.
  5. Faulty assumption on the Start Menu.
  4. Installation takes forever.
  3. Version control.
  2. Price.
  1. Little originality, sometimes with a loss of elegance.

Quote from the article:

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    Everywhere you look, Microsoft has copied things that Apple has
    offered for quite some time in OS X. The User Account Control
    features, especially with the Vista Standard log-in, look a lot
    like Apple's user interface design. Too bad Microsoft doesn't let
    you lock and unlock things (leaving those settings permanent) the
    way Apple does. More than 15 years later, Microsoft is still
    following Apple in operating system design and bundled materials.
    With some notable exceptions (including IE7+, where it copied Mozilla,
    and the Windows Sidebar, where it bests Apple, Google and everyone
    in user-interface design), Microsoft is belaboring the point by
    reinventing the wheel, often with an overall reduction in productivity
    and usability.
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I find item 10 particularly galling, Apparently the trend to do away with
the traditional File, Edit, etc menus began in IE 7.0. Change for change sake?
Sheer idiocy.

Regarding item 3, you'll have to spring for Vista Ultimate (most $$$) if you want
a fully featured system. Otherwise you are faced with an array of missing bits 'n'
pieces that Microsoft has left out, possibly to gently push you into eventually
upgrading to Ultimate.
	
BTW: Click on the red triangular area at the upper right part of the page
to see a new form of "non-intrusive" ad. I like it far better than animated
flash ads placed right in the darn of text I am reading, which can lead to
brain damage and early death.


cheers
rick



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