Hi Gordon,
I am not going to go to Vista, for one reason more so tahn any - I
am more than happy with my Mac.. and oh yes i can't afford JFW 8.0
I just thought you all might be interested i my impresions of what I
am hearing from from Vista users. I am not the most technical on this
list, far from it, but I am nevertheless interested.
On 21 Jul 2007, at 10:23, Gordon Smith wrote:
Vista is over-priced, over-hyped, and most definitely over-rated.
As somebody who has to use the damned thing every day to fulfill
commitments, I would suggest to anybody that, if it's humanly
possible, they avoide Vista. Security features ... that has to be
the biggest joke ever to come out of Microsoft. Vista's so-called
security was broken even before it hit the streets as a public
release. Vista's auto-updater usually doesn't work without a lot
of hassle. Hence, it is no longer an auto-updater. It's simply a
"Try Again" box, which is frequently what comes up when it attempts
to download an update. As John rightly says, its search features
are nothing like Spotlight. Its file indexing slows the system
down to a crawl much of the time. In fact, many technical people
advise users to disable it - so what was the point? The same is
true of its auto-defragmentation functions. Both are switched on
by default. Nah, stick with Tiger if you want efficiency until,
that is, Leopard hits the streets. Then, we can all move on to
another level.
On 20 Jul 2007, at 23:40, John Panarese wrote:
I believe the fact that Vista's looks resemble Mac OS X and
they use similar terminology was hit upon quite completely at last
year's Mac World or WWDC keynote addresses. I believe the "copy
machine" analogy was used to describe Microsoft. This is why MS is
commonly referred to now as the, "me too" company. Trust me, the
search feature is nothing like Spotlight and the security features
in Vista aren't much of an improvement either. My brother is an IT
supervisor for a large company and though he beats the Microsoft
drum, he has been quite explicit about what a waste of money buying
it was and jokes about those billions of dollars MS spent on Vista.
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