Microsoft Windows Vista: So Pretty
What Other Surprises Are in Store?
When I heard about the introduction of Window Vista, a cold chill ran down my spine. Microsoft is notorious for rushing an OS onto the shelves only to find it is full of holes. Holes so big you could drive a mac truck right through and no one would be any the wiser. In addition Microsoft also likes to slip little "Media Control Modules" such as DMCA. Many computers came directly from the store with DMCA already enabled. We wouldn't want anyone to get anything for FREE now would we? All those poor starving rock stars.
With all the talk of the Trusted Computing Group, a group who intends to control every aspect of computing right down to the hardware that runs them. Microsoft is a member of the TCG, so one must really question the intentions of Vista. Especially since Microsoft's track record has proven them to be a company more concerned with the bottom line than really bringing you a better computing experience.
Looking through the new features of vista, you don't really find anything new. Just old stuff with a pretty new skin and twice the memory usage. My favorite new feature was the improved Internet Explorer. The new IE, offers tabbed browsing. Something the original internet explorer didn't AND Firefox has since day one. Heck even Mozilla had tabs. IE doesn't really thrill me. Especially when Firefox is reliable,secure and free.
Then there is Auto-Defrag, Something that shouldn't be needed anyway, if Microsoft would just switch to an ext3 filesystem, or some other FS that doesn't scatter data all over your drive. Mac has not required defrag in a a very long time and Linux has switched to journaled file systems (like ext3) which make defrag obsolete. Microsoft? Lagging behind are we?
In the screenshots I have viewed of Windows Vista, I see lots and lots of eye candy. Eye Candy means less HD space, higher RAM and Processor usage. Not really a big improvement. Besides there are Theme Mangers for Windows XP that are just as good if not better. Even KDE3 on Linux distros can really whip out some Eye Candy if your looking for a FREE OS.
Ultimatley Windows Vista bring nothing with it that independent and open-source software has not already. If I were you I would not bother picking up a copy of Vista as soon as it comes out, at least wait for the THIRD Service pack and you can be sure they have at least some of the flaws fixed.
With all the talk of the Trusted Computing Group, a group who intends to control every aspect of computing right down to the hardware that runs them. Microsoft is a member of the TCG, so one must really question the intentions of Vista. Especially since Microsoft's track record has proven them to be a company more concerned with the bottom line than really bringing you a better computing experience.
Looking through the new features of vista, you don't really find anything new. Just old stuff with a pretty new skin and twice the memory usage. My favorite new feature was the improved Internet Explorer. The new IE, offers tabbed browsing. Something the original internet explorer didn't AND Firefox has since day one. Heck even Mozilla had tabs. IE doesn't really thrill me. Especially when Firefox is reliable,secure and free.
Then there is Auto-Defrag, Something that shouldn't be needed anyway, if Microsoft would just switch to an ext3 filesystem, or some other FS that doesn't scatter data all over your drive. Mac has not required defrag in a a very long time and Linux has switched to journaled file systems (like ext3) which make defrag obsolete. Microsoft? Lagging behind are we?
In the screenshots I have viewed of Windows Vista, I see lots and lots of eye candy. Eye Candy means less HD space, higher RAM and Processor usage. Not really a big improvement. Besides there are Theme Mangers for Windows XP that are just as good if not better. Even KDE3 on Linux distros can really whip out some Eye Candy if your looking for a FREE OS.
Ultimatley Windows Vista bring nothing with it that independent and open-source software has not already. If I were you I would not bother picking up a copy of Vista as soon as it comes out, at least wait for the THIRD Service pack and you can be sure they have at least some of the flaws fixed.
Published by Lloyd Walker
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4 Comments
Post a Commentumm "ln -s" ring any bells?
Lloyd, if you think that you can create network aware symbolic links, you're pretty much a giant retard.
You are correct, I should have been more specific. My research did in fact go beyond Screen Shots. I have been following Vista since Long Horn. One of the touted features was "Symbolic Linking" a feature that many Linux users appreciate, however Vista's version of Symbolic Linking is half-assed at best since you are unable to utilize symbolic links over a network.
Geez... "in the screenshots I have viewed of Windows Vista"... So, you are making so many "informed" comments about Vista based on "the screenshots" you have seen? Shouldn't you have read some of the "what's new" white papers? Did you bother to go through the control panel? Forget IE and tabbed browsing, have you seen Windows Explorer? Forget "eye candy", no Windows XP theme will ever bring you the usability improvements of Vista's Explorer. Of course, you haven't notice any of them, because you only had screenshots. Keep up a god job of publishing crap reviews!