On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:27 +0800, Mark Secker wrote: > after a few hours mucking around on Vista beta I can say I'm not > terribly impressed. Nagware would be a good term for it every > attempt to configure settings is accompanied by endless popups asking > for authentification, then if you if you really want to do that and > the consequences of it (often type 1 Nodal windows that stop you from > doing anything else with any other software currently running) then > as often as not in the next step in the configuration you asked all > that all over again.
Seems Microsoft have got the hint about that too, as the next beta will have much reduced nagware. Pain in the bum, but I guess there are so many stupid windows users out there that quite happily install whatever is in the email box and screw up their machine in the process. BTW, I have just installed Ubuntu 6.06 Linux on my PC laptop last night. Very nice Linux distro, quick and easy to use. Less gimmicks, more speed. I'd like to see both MS and Apple take a few notes :-) If it weren't so hard for average Joe to install software (and some of the software given a bit more polish), Linux would have a real go at Windows in x86. Imho :-) Seeya Rod!
