Hi Hal....
Let me give you a perspective of sorts...
I've been on every beta for MS operating systems since windows 98.
I've jumped at the first chance to install the very 1^st beta they
sent me or had me download, and never looked back.... Every step of
the way with Vista it's been different. In many ways it's a lot like
having to relearn what you already know is there or do-able but
they've moved it? I've been in on the very 1^st Vista betas on thru
till the end. I've had Vista Ultimate final installed here since it
was released. I've run it a whopping 6 times at best? I'm constantly
finding myself saying 'and this is supposed to be easier/better'? To
me it's just not worth the effort yet? The eye candy is pretty but
gets annoying after a while. When every single window that opens has
to start small and 'grow' it's almost like too much movement or
something? The see thru windows etc... trust me after a while you find
yourself being angry that the one you want and can see (kinda sorta)
always has a window in front of it and hard to read?
So then I thought, well if for no other reason than the added
security? Well as you read the news pretty much every day or two some
new fallacy comes out about Vista's so-called added security. The new
firewall that's supposed to be so great?? Think again, Oh, it's miles
above XP's firewall, But ,you know what happens when you install a
firewall? The 1^st time it runs you get 17 permissions windows asking
if it's ok for this program or that to log on.....Well, MS in their
infinite wisdom, decided they didn't want the out of box experience
for a new user to be hit with 15 windows asking for those firewall
permissions, so the outbound blocking is set to allow everything by
default? Ouch..... that's almost worse than no firewall at all? Worse
yet you need a PHD in Quantum Physics to figure out where and how to
reset those permissions. Do-able, yepper, but definitely Not for the
squeamish.
So then I thought well, if nothing else, the AV/Spyware thing should
be synch? Who could possibly know more about ways to break into
Windows and how to block than MS? Wrong again...turns out that MS's
Live One Care utilities failed worse than many other 3^rd party apps?
They (VirusBulletin) said it was something like 99.79% correct in it's
test, but the .21% miss equaled something like 31 different 'bad guy'
issues. Now, that .21% doesn't sound too shabby to me at 1^st site,
but the 31 bad guy issues sounds pretty unacceptable to me.
There's more, but that'd make this a very wordy email? Personally,
it's to the point where I'm running out of ideas on what's trustworthy
any more. What to actually recommend. All the big guys keep saying
when the ever popular SP1 comes out things will be better? But, that
too, could also be a lot of wishful thinking....
Quite honestly I'm heading to Mac as soon as my finances allow it. It
used to be almost fun to fight the fight and win,
It's not 'fun' any more.
Just my 15 cents....
Bruce
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*From:* computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Hal Brown
*Sent:* Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:40 PM
*To:* CTS
*Subject:* [CTS] Vista
OK, just out of curiosity, who is going to move to Vista? I mean as
soon as possible. Frankly, I haven't even looked at it. I've been
through all the Winders changes from the 3.1 on, and I just don't
care. I *may* have a look in a year or so, after I hear the problems
with it.
Thoughts on it if you are using it?
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