PCWORLD: The #1 Biggest Tech Disappointment in 2007 ........VISTA

1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?

It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
under XP.

It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.

When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
feeling more than a little gouged.

No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.

We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
right.

<thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
news:...
> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>
> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
> under XP.
>
> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>
> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
> feeling more than a little gouged.
>
> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>
> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
> right.
>


None of this allows for any improvements during Vista's second year. It is
just endeavoring to spread more FUD..

Move on..

--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

Well, PCWorld is free to have their opinion, but then again, they are not
the ones to make a conclusion. You can't necessarily say Vista is good or
bad without you the user trying it out in the first place. With the
thousands, upon thousands of stores that have machines with Vista installed
so you can test the operating system out for yourself, a text based review
or conclusion is just not gonna cut it.


--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
<thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
news:...
> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>
> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
> under XP.
>
> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>
> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
> feeling more than a little gouged.
>
> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>
> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
> right.
>

Dear Mr. Vista fanboy....

as I have said, vista is unfixable. period


want another prediction? Once sites or people that are important in the IT
field start expressing their opinion about horrible
vista is, a true AVALANCHE of articles about HOW BAD VISTA REALLY IS will be
spread all over the place..

Now what is happening is that people are really not voicing their true
hatred for the worse, most crappy OS Microsoft has ever made.

But once someone starts, more and more and more and more will be
expressed...


and this is a good thing.. the internet will let the truth spread and may
save some people from buying or upgrading to horrible vista.


I have said it.. and you will see that I am right.. vista is a flop... and
nobody will want it soon.




"Mike Hall - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:%23$...
> <thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
>> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>>
>> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
>> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
>> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
>> under XP.
>>
>> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
>> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
>> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
>> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
>> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>>
>> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
>> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
>> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
>> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
>> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
>> feeling more than a little gouged.
>>
>> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
>> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
>> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
>> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>>
>> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
>> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
>> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
>> right.
>>
>
>
> None of this allows for any improvements during Vista's second year. It is
> just endeavoring to spread more FUD..
>
> Move on..
>
> --
> Mike Hall - MVP
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx
>
>
>
>

oh the users have tried it and most absolutley hate it..

now that the big guys are starting to express how crap vista is..

you will see more and more and more and more people getting out and saying
how incredibly stupid and horrible vista is


thank god vista will become a thing of the past soon. consider it already
dead




"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
news:u7MO%...
> Well, PCWorld is free to have their opinion, but then again, they are not
> the ones to make a conclusion. You can't necessarily say Vista is good or
> bad without you the user trying it out in the first place. With the
> thousands, upon thousands of stores that have machines with Vista
> installed so you can test the operating system out for yourself, a text
> based review or conclusion is just not gonna cut it.
>
>
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> <thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
>> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>>
>> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
>> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
>> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
>> under XP.
>>
>> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
>> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
>> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
>> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
>> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>>
>> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
>> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
>> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
>> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
>> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
>> feeling more than a little gouged.
>>
>> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
>> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
>> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
>> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>>
>> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
>> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
>> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
>> right.
>>
>
>

this confirms what I have been saying for the last one (even more since I
was saying it even before vista was named vista)

that vista is crap and nobody will want it.. everything I said, will come to
pass...


I wonder what the stupid vistaboys have to say now that they are seeing
their godly vista being exposed for the trash it really is???







<thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
news:...
> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>
> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
> under XP.
>
> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>
> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
> feeling more than a little gouged.
>
> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>
> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
> right.
>

Hey $hit for brains,

Why don't you face it you do not have no creditability at all!, you never
back up your claims,
your so full of $hit it must be pouring out your mouth.

do everyone a favour and disappear back to that sad, lonely fantasy world
you once came
from.

Vista will long be around after your not it's here to stay, and anything
your twisted mind
say's wont change that!


"vista user 43" <> wrote in message
news:4767e9fa$...
> oh the users have tried it and most absolutley hate it..
>
> now that the big guys are starting to express how crap vista is..
>
> you will see more and more and more and more people getting out and saying
> how incredibly stupid and horrible vista is
>
>
> thank god vista will become a thing of the past soon. consider it already
> dead
>
>
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
> news:u7MO%...
>> Well, PCWorld is free to have their opinion, but then again, they are not
>> the ones to make a conclusion. You can't necessarily say Vista is good or
>> bad without you the user trying it out in the first place. With the
>> thousands, upon thousands of stores that have machines with Vista
>> installed so you can test the operating system out for yourself, a text
>> based review or conclusion is just not gonna cut it.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> <thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
>>> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>>>
>>> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
>>> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
>>> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
>>> under XP.
>>>
>>> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
>>> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
>>> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
>>> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
>>> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>>>
>>> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
>>> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
>>> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
>>> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
>>> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
>>> feeling more than a little gouged.
>>>
>>> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
>>> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
>>> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
>>> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>>>
>>> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
>>> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
>>> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
>>> right.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

go away troll


thank god vista will become a thing of the past soon. consider it already
dead

thank god I wont have to put up with total idiots like you any more


>>
>> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
>> news:u7MO%...
>>> Well, PCWorld is free to have their opinion, but then again, they are
>>> not the ones to make a conclusion. You can't necessarily say Vista is
>>> good or bad without you the user trying it out in the first place. With
>>> the thousands, upon thousands of stores that have machines with Vista
>>> installed so you can test the operating system out for yourself, a text
>>> based review or conclusion is just not gonna cut it.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andre
>>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>>> <thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
>>>> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>>>>
>>>> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
>>>> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
>>>> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
>>>> under XP.
>>>>
>>>> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
>>>> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
>>>> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
>>>> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
>>>> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>>>>
>>>> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
>>>> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
>>>> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
>>>> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
>>>> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
>>>> feeling more than a little gouged.
>>>>
>>>> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
>>>> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
>>>> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
>>>> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>>>>
>>>> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
>>>> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
>>>> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

thetruthhurts @homail.com wrote:
> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>
> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
> under XP.
>
> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>
> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
> feeling more than a little gouged.
>
> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>
> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
> right.
>


I found the ongoing difficulties (As in ongoing from previous systems)
with explorer and such things as file copying a bit disconcerting and
the search function with it's default settings simply worthless, because
you are not sure if the file is actually not there or simply not being
seen. I hated the live search thing for XP too. It just seems they want
to involve the internet even for searching the desktop. Can't really say
that is a criticism of the OS, some will like it, personally I don't.

As I said earlier though the problem seems to be that it is not "That
much better" than XP so you have to ask the question why upgrade?

It seems to me that MS has tried to keep compatibility with previous
systems in one way but not been terribly successful, so you get the
worst of both worlds. It's neither brand new and better based on a
secure design philosophy nor is it familiar and moderately compatible. I
don't think it is "Bad" and wouldn't want to put people off if they like
it, but I think the combination of criticisms, the activation nuisance,
the UAC irritations and the cost will push folks to look for
alternatives when XP goes. There's going to be a learning curve wither
way so zero cost becomes a major choice factor.

> go away troll

LOL That has to be the funniest thing you have ever wrote, you are THE
BIGGEST TROLL IN THIS GROUP!

> thank god vista will become a thing of the past soon. consider it already
> dead

You really are dilusional aren't you, or does the truth hurt too much, go
run to mommy tell her how upset you are that the big boys are laughing at
your pathetic idiotic comments.

> thank god I wont have to put up with total idiots like you any more

Try looking in a mirror you will see the biggest idiot.



"vista user 43" <> wrote in message
news:...
> go away troll
>
>
> thank god vista will become a thing of the past soon. consider it already
> dead
>
> thank god I wont have to put up with total idiots like you any more
>
>
>>>
>>> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
>>> news:u7MO%...
>>>> Well, PCWorld is free to have their opinion, but then again, they are
>>>> not the ones to make a conclusion. You can't necessarily say Vista is
>>>> good or bad without you the user trying it out in the first place. With
>>>> the thousands, upon thousands of stores that have machines with Vista
>>>> installed so you can test the operating system out for yourself, a text
>>>> based review or conclusion is just not gonna cut it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andre
>>>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>>>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>>>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>>>> <thetruthhurts @homail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:...
>>>>> 1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
>>>>> Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental
>>>>> controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets.
>>>>> Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than
>>>>> under XP.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's just that Vista isn't all that good. Many of the innovations the
>>>>> operating system was supposed to bring--like more efficient file and
>>>>> communications systems--got tossed overboard as Microsoft struggled to
>>>>> get the OS out the door, some three years after it was first promised.
>>>>> Despite its hefty hardware requirements, Vista is slower than XP.
>>>>>
>>>>> When it debuted last January, incompatibilities were rampant--in part
>>>>> because hardware and software makers didn't feel any urgency to revamp
>>>>> their products to work with the new OS. The user account controls that
>>>>> were supposed to make users feel safer just made them feel irritated.
>>>>> And at $399 ($299 upgrade) for Windows Ultimate, we couldn't help
>>>>> feeling more than a little gouged.
>>>>>
>>>>> No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to
>>>>> a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And
>>>>> when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple
>>>>> MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only
>>>>> because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that
>>>>> doesn't have it pre-installed. And that's disappointing in its own
>>>>> right.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>