-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Notes on two recent issues discussed herein...
- From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:53:36 -0400
Yikes!! I may have to run out and buy XP before purchasing my new computer
this summer....
Christine
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From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Notes on two recent issues discussed herein...
> Only because (b/c) you asked for comments, one of the best summaries can
> be
> found at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_Vista
>
> A lot of people hate Vista because of the sheer number of "flavors" it
> comes
> in (from "Basic" to "Ultimate"), a point which was lampooned by Apple
> commercials (remember the wheel of fortune ads?) and which has formed part
> of the basis of certain class-action litigation against M$. A lot of
> people
> hate Vista b/c of the DRM aspects (and the implementation of the dreaded
> Trusted Computing Platform technology which allows, among others,
> governments to track what you do on the Net right back to your particular
> computer). A lot of people hate Vista b/c, even with the recent price
> cuts,
> it is relatively expensive, especially when a lot of what you are getting
> (when compared to XP) is "eye-candy" (e.g., the Aero interface) -- if your
> system even has the hardware to support it. A lot of people hate it b/c
> many older (and expensive) applications (e.g., older versions of M$ Office
> and Wordperfect before X3) do not run on it, forcing people to purchase
> more-expensive upgrades. (A source of another recent Apple ad with the
> yoga
> instructor banging her gong.) Many people hate it because it can be much
> slower than XP on the same hardware. Many hate Vista b/c of its large
> "system footprint" (of course, every new version of Windows since 3.x has
> exponentially increased in size). A lot of people don't trust Vista b/c
> M$,
> instead of building on code that it had confidence in that it worked (that
> is, Win2k and WinXP codebase), rewrote everything "from scratch" and a lot
> of people have been concerned that Vista is essentially "new code" with
> unexplored security issues which could be more-easily exploited when the
> villains discover them.
>
> Needless to say, I'm not running Vista. I plan to "give it a miss" as
> long
> as possible.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glen Sawtell
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:12 PM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Notes on two recent issues discussed herein...
>
> Thanks for the news. I am failing to see where all the hate for vista
> has come from though. I wonder if it is due to the fact that MS simply
> took so long to release it and thus people expected too much from it?.
> I have Vista home premium on my main workstation and don't have a
> problem with it. As long as you have a decent amount of RAM (2GB+) and
> a somewhat modern CPU (I run an AMD Athlon X2 3800+, which is not very
> fast compared to newer CPUs) then it runs well. XP was sluggish when
> it first came out too, now that people are running it on newer PCs
> though it flies. I think the same will happen with Vista over time
> too. Thoughts?.
>
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