20 Things You Won't Like About Vista 2189

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:31:12 -0700, Timberwoof wrote (in article

If this article in any way references the so-called "interesting graph", see my next comment.

NOTE that this Graph has a PROVISO attached underneath, which reads "Based on the SUBJECTIVE buttessments of the author." (my emphasis on the word "subjective")

Like all things which are labeled "subjective buttessments of the author", this is a COMPLETELY PERSONAL OPINION, and is NOT based on any FACTS in evidence. Therefore, just "fictional", since anything not fact-based is obviously fictional.

Come, on, Maccies, where are your FACTS?

Should be no problem with Intel iMacs, since the Vista readiness tools inform me that my Intel iMac w-2GB memory is perfectly compatible with ALL editions of Vista, including the Ultimate Edition, which it recommends I use.

And?

Woes in Business are certainly not missing from OS X or Apple software. I don't doubt that there will be some in Visa, until one over-comes the Vista learning curve.

Normally, Windows user account settings are found in the Control Panel. Did you look there?

Any Windows desktop can be as secure as you are willing to make it. All it takes is a few dollars and a little attention.

Set Users to always ask for pbuttword. In XP, there is a setting to make the Admin account always appear on the Login Screen. Don't know it there is one in Vista, or where it is.

In XP, it is possible to boot using the Boot disk and start the Repair Console (first opportunity installer gives you to Repair, not second one), from which to change (or remove) Admin pbuttword if needed.

I'm sure this is to be expected with ALL new OSes. However, I had no problems with Apple Airport networking in XP. In fact, all I had to do was pretty much take the wireless networking added during XP install. I was on the web much sooner than I should have been, but still with no problems.

If that means "wireless" networking with the Airport wireless networking in my iMac, see my comments about No. 15 above.

Any time I hear the word "too many", I immediately write off the rest of the statement as "Personal Opinion", rather than "Fact".

See my reply to No. 12 above, subsbreastuting the words "for no apparently good reason" in the place of "too many", with the same comment about deleting the rest of the statement.

If this means that the display settings you made to the Vista desktop, this was even a problem with XP (in my case, extremely rarely), so I don't doubt that it could easily happen with a new OS.

"Alt-F"? (on a Mac keyboard, that would be "Option-F")

Why in God's Name use such a crappy security solution in the first place? There are many decent malware solutions for Windows, including Vista. Though they WILL cost money. (of course, you probably don't want to spend any money to get decent security in Windows, because you think that Windows is somehow not worth spending any money on). You will have the answer to that when you get your first brower hijacking for failing to install ANY malware solution.

That deserves no answer, since it defines no problems, or poses any solutions.

As they say, "time heals all wounds". In the meantime, just install Yahoo Gadgets for free.

Well, considering that Windows Media Center presupposes an off-the-shelf Windows Media Edition-compatible machine, I wouldn't doubt it.

Hint: why not CONFIGURE IT?

See my comment about Nos. 12+11 above, subsbreastuting "Faulty buttumption" for "apparently no good reason", keeping the rest of my statement.

Opinion, opinion, opinion, not fact. I thought Maccies loved "facts"

Well, "forever" is kind of relative to whether or not you have to go to the bathroom at the exact moment a popup dialog suddenly appears asking for user input, or you decide to let the installer just sit there forever while you take the family to the nearest Red Lobster, and come back and somehow find it magically installed with the options you want.

Again, nothing but personal opinion, not facts.

That must be one of those high-fallutin' computerese terms only geeks use. Please explain for us common folks.

Also, please consider that Vista is still in beta, including its distribution system, which currently only includes downloadable installers for MSDN members with Operating System membership (like Apple Developers Network subscription), or in the June Microsoft TechNet Subscription DVD, with a download installer in a few weeks for the Community Public Preview, and more than probably a link to get the DVD for a nominal media-shipping charge (XP was only $10, if I remember correctly, and came via Fed-Ex within a week).

What price? As far as I know, Microsoft has not yet posted pricing information on any edition of Windows Vista.

Why complain about what doesn't exist yet?

Again, nothing but personal opinion, not fact.

Come on Maccies, WHERE are your FACTS about Vista? Surely you have them by now? Oh, yeah, you refuse to read Microsoft's Web sites because of your Maccie compulsive-obsessive behavioral issues.

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