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| Thread ID: 76873 | 2007-02-19 04:02:00 | Vista ? - No way I'm waiting for GoogleOs. | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 525671 | 2007-02-19 08:05:00 | Its amazing how many people in this forum sit here and bad mouth Vista, yet im sure if you were able to do a search of the old forum you'd find they were the same people bad mouthing XP. They seem to hate it purely because its new and they aren't comfortable with it(generally the reason people hate most things ;)) If you think Vienna will be treated any differently your a fool! Isn't it amazing how people become inured to something that they could hardly tolerate initially. Acceptance of what were previously considered onerous EULAs and limitations for e.g. I guess for many it is easier to accept than undergo what is essentially a more radical change by rejecting. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 525672 | 2007-02-19 11:45:00 | Personally I really dis-like Vista. I see little point to it for many and pity those who rush out to buy it simply because they've been conned by the latest media advertising ploy! Two sets of thumbnails on the one screen is a pathetic reason to buy a new OS, as-is its so-called "enhanced security"... Mind you, in saying that, I'll become Microsoft Certified as a Vista Desktop Support Technician in a few months when the exam is out of beta, simply for the fact I know I'll have a putt-load of people ringing me saying "How do I do this, how do I do that? Why wont this work? This sucks, how can I fix it? This is slow, what can I do to make it go faster? Im used to this being like this, how can I change it?" XP isnt too bad, Vista is worse.. I'd prefer everybody still ran '98! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 525673 | 2007-02-19 18:58:00 | Aside from Chilling Silence I cant agree with any of your comments. None really likes change, but we all like something new ! The thing was that 98 and ME were basically GUI OS's built on Dos. XP was the first Windows version to be built on NT technology making it inherently more reliable as it no longer needed Dos. So XP did offer something worth while paying for - better reliability ! My point is that Vista does not seem to offer anything worth paying for. Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 525674 | 2007-02-19 19:15:00 | What has MS support got to do with anything? I see more people on things like Win98 and ME than anything else. MS support is like brake oil. ME? Are they masochists for using it themselves, or sadists for making you work on it? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 525675 | 2007-02-19 19:17:00 | XP was the first Windows version to be built on NT technology What about 2000 and... NT? Surely Windows NT was based on NT technology? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 525676 | 2007-02-19 19:47:00 | Good point. :D Although I think he means first MAINSTREAM OS. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 525677 | 2007-02-19 20:38:00 | Win2k was (and in some places still is) a mainstream OS. It just happened to be more in the corporate sector than the home one. Same goes for NT. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 525678 | 2007-02-19 23:22:00 | DOS was never meant to be secure. It was a single user system for small computers. Of course, NT was intended to be secure. MS even headhunted a smart guy from DEC who knew how to do security. Unfortunately, MS found you can't make a consumer product secure, because that's not "user friendly". So they made their consumer OSs friendly. So they are insecure. Does anyone believe that Vista will be any better? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 525679 | 2007-02-20 00:33:00 | People are getting used to software becoming more complicated, so they can make each version a little less user friendly and a little more secure than the last. If they do it slow enough, they can do good security without intimidating their customers. | Greven (91) | ||
| 525680 | 2007-02-20 00:46:00 | Mind you, in saying that, I'll become Microsoft Certified as a Vista Desktop Support Technician in a few months when the exam is out of beta, simply for the fact I know I'll have a putt-load of people ringing me saying "How do I do this, how do I do that? Why wont this work? This sucks, how can I fix it? This is slow, what can I do to make it go faster? Im used to this being like this, how can I change it?" Chill, why the hell do you need to pass an exam merely inform people that they must get out there XP/Win2k/Linux/etc, CD and install a decent OS? |
Murray P (44) | ||
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