Roedy Green said:
The main irritation has been the way it hides files and denies access.
The other big complaint is the huge memory footprint, without doing
anything extra.
There are a few nice things. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/windowsvista.html
There are some bugs:
1. LAN connections drop mysteriously
2. you can't log on in both directions in peer to peer LAN.
3. backgrounds for progress bars turn into a row of chicklets
4. the DOS box goes black on black.
That is no minor bug!
It drives you nuts with very slow warning dialogs before anything that
could be considered configuration, e.g. setting an environment
variable.
I am trying to figure out what the MS people were doing all that time.
The main thing seems to be to disable the right click object-oriented
way of working.
Oh good - they are turning it into a mac.
I spent 10 minutes looking for a menu bar. Found out I have to use the
keyboard to activate it. Thanks Bill.
It seemed to completely ignore the open each folder in a new explorer
window. Even holding Control Alt or Shift (I tried every combination)
would not allow me to open a new window. I am forced to use the stupid back
and forward buttons (they weren't even nice enough to include and up tree
navigation button. I am now forced to do the ridiculous cut and paste file
operations.
I wrote a three page blog on what I could see from 90 minutes of using the
POS that made me want to kill myself (not literally)
Any OS that denies you complete access to your own files is downright
offensive.
I wonder if anyone has succeeded in getting a windows XP interface working.
It is the modifications to windows explorer that I find most offensive.
The most annoying part is that Bill Gates knows his OS is a piece of crap.
That is why he is forcing it down everyone's throats so quickly. OEMs are
being theatened with loss of kickbacks if they don't switch all new consumer
lines immediately to Vista. Offering Windows XP is a punishable offense.
Why? Because the less tech savvy need to have it installed on their
computers before they hear that it is a bad thing. If they hear it is bad,
they will get windows XP and then possibly never upgrade.