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Skriven 2007-02-02 17:14:36 av mike (1:379/45)
Ärende: Microsoft lists Vista high points
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From: mike <mike@barkto.com>


http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37394

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ONE OF THE most damning condemnations of the shiny DRM infection masquerading
as an OS is on Microsoft's own site, its paid for list of reasons why Vista
roX0rz or something. It is really a good laugh.

This article is sheer marketing pabulum, but you would think Microsoft could
have at least figured out something worth a damn to crow about in its own
propaganda piece. Rather than fib about what Vista brings to the table, it told
the truth, and that is why things are so sad.

So, what does it bring? 7.5 things, none of which are worth the time it takes
to install, much less the money or the rights Vista takes from you. Let's go
down the list shall we?

1) IE 7: The number one thing as they say is not exclusive to Vista, nor is it
anything other than a warmed over virus and spyware vector. Use Firefox or pay
the price, botnet herders want your box. So far 0/1.

2) Windows Sidebar: Be still my beating heart, widgets that every other OS in
the world has had since about, oh, 1983, but done more intrusively. Luckily it
sucks resources and screen space. Handy tip, if you are experiencing heavy CPU
load at idle, turn off the clock, you may get 1/3 of your CPU time back. This
pile was tested for how long? 0/2.

3) Aero: Ok, they are right it is pretty. 1/3.

4) Mahjong Titans: If you don't have anything real to talk about, why not tout
fluff. (Read this next part as me feigning excitement) Holy sh*t,
Mah-fscking-jong!!! Way cool. I was only expecting a database filesystem and
middleware layer four years ago, but Mahjong just blows me away. Now I
understand where all those years, programmer-decades and billions of dollars
went, certainly not flushed if you get Mahjong Titans! Damn grrl. Can you
imagine if you could get this kind of awesomeness on the web for free, or at
any of 17 billion freeware sites? Never happen, would it? 1.000007/4

5) Start Menu Search: This is a feature? Ummmm, this is better than Google
Desktop Search how? Oh yeah, it is on the start menu not the start bar so it
takes an additional click. Whoopty-fscking-do0. MS should be ashamed of this
one, like the start menu on the bottom where it ergonomically blows to avoid
accusations of cloning Apple. Hint to MS: Apple put it there for a reason, it
was the right thing to do ergonomically, and the bottom is not. Hint to MS 2:
Google put it there for a reason, it was the right thing to do ergonomically,
the menu is not. 1.000004/5.

5.5) Stay Start Menu: Wow, it would take an MS employee to put their name on
liking the 'advances' of the XP start menu over the older one. More clicks are
better, and even a troll would know bigger is better. It is also green, what
more could you want? Anyone with half a brain kills that monster as one of the
first things on the must do list after installing XP. Advances from there are
low hanging fruit indeed. That said, I think they deserve the .000003 points
back for that, going to 1.000007/5.5.

6) Control Panel Search: WTF? The reason they need a search for the control
panel is because they dumbed it down to the point of unusability. How stupid
are they? The non-moron interface, aka classic mode, worked just fine, if you
wanted to adjust your fonts, you clicked on fonts, user accounts, you clicked
on user accounts. You never had to guess which one of 4 big icons might have
the thing you wanted, if any of them did. One really has to wonder if MS is run
by wizards, not the term of endearment, but little applets that don't let you
do anything while frustrating the hell out of you and leaving you more borked
than when you started. This is clearly a case of 19 steps backward followed by
another 3 back trying to make up for it. Dumb dumb dumb.-1.999993/6.5 with an
added 'idiots'.

7) Windows Photo Gallery: Yay, Microsoft finally realised Picasa is a threat,
so it is forcing a bloated app down your throat. Not having tried it, and being
a kind person who really likes Microsoft, I will give it full credit here.
-.999993/7.5.

So, as you can plainly see in this scientific look at the high points of Vista
from MS itself, Vista adds negative value to your computer. There is no denying
the numbers, it is there in black and white using only MS paid for spin.

Vista is shiny and its maker can't even come up with a decent list as to why
you should care. May I suggest you take your $400 and pick a new hobby using
this as seed money? You won't get a DRM infection, you won't sell your soul to
licensing agreements, and you will have a computer that is actually more
functional. What more do you want? æ
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