Ringmaster wrote:[color=blue]
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:54:12 +0200, "Billinares"
> <billinares@bluewin.ch> wrote:
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>> As in every day life, in the computer world we are confronted with trade-off
>> situations. There is no perfect SW and that includes the OSs. I'm sure Vista
>> has great inprovements, but at what cost? We as users decide if the the
>> advertised improvements are worth the "glitches". From what I've heard and
>> read the user community does not think so. Speaking for myself, I had never
>> encounter a serious security problem in my system (my anti-virus & spy-ware
>> SW took care of that) using XP. On the other hand I want my applications to
>> run fast and stable and I'm ready to pay good money for that. Vista has not
>> live up to my expecations in the year or so I've used it and I grow tired of
>> the the same "is more secure"-argument. I don't want more security if it is
>> bought with unstable and slow applications.[/color]
>
> Amazing to me how people fall for marketing hype. The two biggest
> "features" Microsoft hyped to death about Vista were Aero and UAC.
> Both suck.
>
> Before installing Vista I like many looked forward to what was suppose
> to be a "radical" improvement in graphics. What did we actually get?
> Transparent window borders. Oh wow, were we suppose to be impressed
> over that Mickey Mouse eye candy improvement? Yes, I know Vista also
> improved fonts some, and icons are better but is this worth the price
> of a upgrade? Not in my book.
>
> UAC has been much discussed already. It simply doesn't live up to the
> hype either. No matter how hard the faithful try to push it as some
> great advance in "security" anyone even vaguely familiar with Windows
> understands UAC's purpose is little more than a nag screen one can
> easily click through.
>
> My biggest gripes about Vista is for many it performs WORSE than XP
> especially in important areas like file handling. That is simply
> inexcusable no matter how much the apologist crowd whines or remains
> in denial. Combine all those things with changing the interface for
> what seems to be mostly windows dressing, again I feel cheated. I'm
> not obviously alone in these opinions, but true to form fanboys stick
> their heads in the sand and pretend nothing is wrong with Vista with
> the dumbest of the crowd actually crowing Vista is wonderful.[/color]

My hubby Ringmaster is never satisfied with anything. If there would
be nothing to complain about, he would still complain!