Hi David,

I've got to say, that I suspect that people who have never used
a PC before will find it easier to learn Vista than XP. The problem
is that the more you know about an old OS, and the more different
the new OS, the harder it will be for you to understand it. I have two
PCs at home, one with Vista and one with XP (not enough Vista drivers
for it yet), and it was hard for me to get used to Vista, but after using it
for a while, I like it better than XP. Of course, your mileage will vary,
just like everyone will never agree on which car is the best.

-- Larry Maturo

"David Dickinson" <eveningstar@die-spammer-die.mvps.org> wrote in message
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> <BEGIN OPINION>
> I gotta tell ya', I've made a lot of money from using and supporting
> Microsoft products over the last 28 years. But now, I'm afraid.
>
> The Vista user interface has many, many counter-intuitive features,
> including some that through creating confusion will cause disasters,
> including loss of data. In fact, Explorer windows may show inaccurate
> information. Vista doesn't play well with other machines on a network.
> Administering it can be tedious and time-consuming when compared to
> previous OS's. A lot of stuff either doesn't work the way you expect or
> just doesn't work at all. It's been dumbed down in some areas so much
> that administrators can't do some things they need to do (such as
> customized backups), while some other "features" have been made so
> complicated that the average user is going to have to ask for help where
> none was needed before. And while it certainly does have a pretty
> interface, it's a hardware hog with lousy performance even in the most
> stripped-down configuration. People can buy tremendous hardware thinking
> that they're going to get the machine of their dreams, only to find out
> that it's slower than molasses in January (for instance, will DX10 destroy
> DirectX's place in the market?).
>
> And it's buggy, and has been hacked on live TV (with promises from eEye of
> more to come).
>
> Nevertheless, I'm going to have to support Vista. But my clients will be
> calling more about computer problems than about finding solutions for
> their business operations. And they'll be unhappy about it.
>
> I realize that hardware vendors eventually will come up with truly
> Vista-compatible drivers, third-parties will offer software to overcome
> many of Vista's user-interface and configurability weaknesses, and
> eventually Microsoft will issue hotfixes and service packs to fix the bugs
> and security holes. And I have no doubt that near-future hardware
> advances eventually will make up for some of Vista's performance problems.
>
> But I'm convinced that the next couple of years are not going to be fun,
> and I even wonder if we'll be using Vista's Explorer UI at all by then.
>
> I just hope I never resort to saying "Look, don't blame me. I didn't
> write this thing." I'll probably be better off if I recommend to my
> clients that they avoid getting Vista for a couple of years.
> <END OPINION>
> --
> David Dickinson
> eveningstar at die-spammer-die dash mvps dot org
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