The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
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> Charlie Tame wrote:[color=green]
>> The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
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>>> Charlie Tame wrote:
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>>>> No, non Vista drivers don't work, tried lots when I had problems
>>>> with numerous brands / models, Vista is almost totally inflexible,
>>>> and even some "Vista" drivers don't work properly so it's a lottery.
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>>> You got that right! I'm really not impressed with Vista so far myself.
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>> Well I think they applied a lot of ingenuity with XP, and for that[/color]
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> Agreed. For all the problems XP had, it also had some worthwhile features.
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>> matter W2003 server which you'd expect to be more "Rigid" was the same,[/color]
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> I love the fact that the server boots into a classic look and feel. I
> also like the volume shadow copy feature.
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>> but Vista nitpicks everything (I suppose in the name of "Security) but[/color]
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> IMO, with vista it seems like they are trying to hoist all of the
> responsibility for security on the user instead of trying to actually
> fix the problems. It's like they are using the wrong kind of bandaid
> fix for it.
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>> in reality is suffering from much the same vulnerabilities... they
>> should have broken the incestuous relationship between the core and
>> IE, the core and WMP and come up with totally new products which are
>> independent leaving their browser and player to develop their own
>> security. Was time for a different set of products with the same "Look
>> and feel", instead we got the same old products with a different look
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> Totally. While I am a bit of a skeptic, I think that Vista was a dud
> and they could still do much better with vienna. Time will tell.
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Well I don't think I'd be inclined to spend $100,000s if I were a big
company just to get my employees better eye candy, I mean it won't
really improve the "Look" of my website (As most customers will ever see
it) and so I see no real profit + my IT guys are telling me it's a PITA
to get set up right. On a sales floor it might look good, sure, but it's
not going to "Earn" much in the office...

Most US companies are watching budgets a bit, I think they needed to
show some value for money and it's not there when you take all into
account. Not everybody can afford to be cutting edge just for
appearances sake.

I suppose it's not really been mentioned but running Vista as host to
an XP VM is something they could have packaged with it, give folks an
easy way to import / save all their older stuff and keep using it and
gain some experience before taking a leap into the dark.