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My Vista Rant

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AndyWarne:
I have just finished 3 weeks of using Vista for developing and testing some of my apps and I have to say I cant wait to get back to XP!

The security “features” in vista are simply too intrusive. The approach seems to be fundamentally flawed. Instead of encouraging the user to install anti-virus software and set up a daily backup, the approach seems to be akin to making sure all internal doors of a house are locked except when moving from room to room rather than keep the front door locked.
What kinds of mortal dangers are being guarded against anyway? It seems that MS is almost taking some kind or revenge for being accused of security holes in the past, and making everyone suffer.
How many users who have correctly updated firewalls and backup properly have suffered catastrophic loss of data or security breaches? I would have thought very few. The level of inconvenience caused by the security features far outweighs the risks.
Security should always be a balanced compromise otherwise car manufacturers would make drivers press a special button marked “I understand this might cause danger, confirm you want to do this” every time they exceed 30 MPH.
Having several prompts and warnings show up even when copying a file is far over the top. I wonder what a pschoanalyst would make of the benign stress caused by the screen becoming dark and giving warnings of dire consequences every time a user performs an action?
Turning of UAC does not get rid of all these annoying prompts.
The depressing part of this is that most of us will have to suffer Vista, just a matter of when...
Andy

shardian:
I bought my laptop on Black Friday. It came with XP, but I can get a free upgrade to vista premium or business- can't remember which but is the better upgrade.
I don't want it for sure. I just wonder if I could register it and sell the code to someone else.

squirrellydw:
I will stick with my Mac OSX for my main computer and XP for mame

sphetr2:

--- Quote from: AndyWarne on January 31, 2007, 07:57:20 am ---
The depressing part of this is that most of us will have to suffer Vista, just a matter of when...


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Ummm...not on my watch. What about a distro of Linux, like Ubuntu?

saint:
Careful - I read that if/when you upgrade XP to Vista, the XP license key becomes invalid for any future installs....


--- Quote from: shardian on January 31, 2007, 08:48:09 am ---I bought my laptop on Black Friday. It came with XP, but I can get a free upgrade to vista premium or business- can't remember which but is the better upgrade.
I don't want it for sure. I just wonder if I could register it and sell the code to someone else.

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