Windows Vista: The Operating System Designed for Computer Newbies

Just got a brand-new desktop (far better processor, for less, not surprisingly, than the notebook I was using before) that of course comes with the home basic edition Vista OS.

Wow ... for one thing, this constant allow/cancel annoyance that pops up every time I try to do pretty much anything is going to make me even more paranoid than I already am. What a completely worthless function, when about 100% of the time I'm the one who just initiated the program/function/feature that it's trying to verify 2 seconds later. Whichever techie thought this "security feature" was a good idea needs to be drug-tested and/or consider a possible brain transplant.

From what I've seen so far, Vista should have its name changed to "Windows for the Retarded." Unless you're a total and complete noob, I don't see how this OS is an improvement from XP. In fact, I had to spend about 2-3 hours just disabling and getting rid of worthless, pointless features/programs that serve only to eat up memory and do not much of anything else (except annoy, of course).

It seems like Microsoft is making the assumption that the human race is becoming more and more stupid as time passes. And as far as Vista being more user-friendly is concerned? That's pretty much crap. All else aside, I never had any trouble getting around and performing whatever functions I needed to while using XP ... Vista, on the other hand, is seriously needing some getting used to.

90% of the "new features" that weren't in XP and are now in Vista are completely worthless, annoying, and designed for ppl who have absolutely no business being on a computer. I'm seriously gonna start considering switching to the competition ...

Thankfully, I wasted no time today (my first day using it) in disabling the various functions and deleting the various programs that serve absolutely no real purpose (at least not to those of us who aren't completely technology-inept), so at the very least, I've cut down the OS's memory usage as much as I can. Seriously, I had to mess around with the startup progs/services quite a bit to at least make this workable.

But I exaggerate.

Microsoft could have easily taken care of XP's "security issues" w/out turning Vista into two-tons worth of baggage. An OS is supposed to run as lightly and as efficiently as possible, staying in the background so that users can actually do their work instead of being bothered every 30 seconds by another one of Vista's retarded features.

As for the hardware requirements? Yeah, they're just freaking ridiculous. I mean, my new CPU is about as powerful as any single-core processor could possibly be, but at the same time, I'm lacking somewhat in memory. I could upgrade the RAM quite easily if I wanted to, but do I really care about accessing Vista's over-glorified "high-end" features.

Hmm ... no, not at all. Although yeah, given the hardware requirements for an OS that's just supposed to fix the security issues of its far-superior predecessor, I can understand why many casual users are reluctant

Too bad I didn't have a choice when I bought this new comp. To get XP back I'd have had to go with the "Build-a-Bear Workshop" of the computer industry, Dell, and select XP instead of Vista. But then I'd have to knock myself out first b/c that's what I would do before ever falling into one of Dell's so-called "attractive dual-core processor" deals, which pretty much start your computer at no memory, no HDD space, no DVD writer, no LCD monitor, absolutely nothing. Until you start upgrading. So yeah, that's a crock.

All else aside, I hated Internet Explorer 7 when it was released, b/c when I tried it on XP, it was incredibly inefficient in terms of memory usage and was just a pain.

However, now on Vista, IE7 is pre-installed and working much better, in fact I'd say it completely owns Firefox, Mozilla, and the very much outdated Netscape.

Protected Mode, ActiveX Opt-in blocks, Phishing Filter, Internationalized Domain Names, and so much more make this what IE should have been years ago.

Seriously, this is a simply flawless web browser when used on Vista. Sticking with Firefox would be moronic. Not that I ever used the overrated browser that much anyway. At least this time around I won't have to download and install 3 of them.

So ... there you have at least one redeemable feature that actually works great on Vista.