Windows vista:
- Compatibility pain.
- High security. To an extent that it secures itself from the owner. How useful.
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2007-07-31 05:45:32 · 15 answers · asked by Squid 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
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2007-07-31 06:05:07 · update #1
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931719
Its actually drives you to another issues.
2007-07-31 06:10:06 · update #2
Wow 3d windows... so cool... NOT!!!!
I installed it, played with it a day or so, and went right back to XP...
Maybe after an SP or two it might be worth playing with again.
2007-07-31 05:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by vstar_in_texas 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I love Vista, the interface is beautiful. Several minor UI improvements really strengthen the OS as a platform. We have only begun to see the capabilities of Vista, very few applications are targeting Windows Presentation Foundation, Card Space and DirectX 10. Give it time and Vista will shine.
You can't expect an OS to keep moving forward while maintaining backwards compatibility, at some point you have to cut it off.
High security is great in an environment that is so popular that it is constantly targeted by virus' and exploits. I leave User Account Control enabled even though it hasn't helped me yet.
2007-07-31 06:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by Pfo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm actually fairly impressed with it.
I haven't had any compatibility issues with it, but it came installed on a new Dell AMD laptop. I wouldn't suggest loading it on an older machine (it doesn't really do anything that XP can't, so it would be a waste of time anyway).
It connected directly to my wireless, then I plugged in my USB/MIDI keyboard controller (for playing software based synthesizers) and it came right up.
I disabled some of the junk that was running, especially automatic updating stuff, and haven't had a single problem out of it. It is mainly used in my studio, and the software I run on it is fairly demanding. Arturia Minimoog/Modular Moog/ARP2600, etc.
I can simply close my screen and it will go to sleep, which is where I leave it most of the time. If it does shut down while asleep, it has an option to resume exactly where it left off, which is pretty damn handy. It comes up ridiculously fast unless you actually shut it completely down and bring it back up - and even that is fairly quick.
I would have never run out and bought it, but I decided to give it a chance. If it had shown any signs of being unstable, or glitchy, I wouldn't have hesitated to format it, load XP, get all the drivers installed, and be back in action.
2007-07-31 05:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In general, I'm fine with Vista. Compatibility issues are normal. It happened to XP when it first came out. There are Vista drivers everywhere now. As for the high security features (a la UAC), that's a pain in the butt. You turn it off, you leave yourself insecure and many things don't function properly (such as installing a network printer) if you don't have UAC on. But if you have it on, you have to live with the cancel 'n allows ... and there are sometimes problems with deleting files/renaming folders/etc. But it's all worth it for the new snazzy interface IMO. I can't go back to XP.
2007-07-31 05:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Leslie K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-08 21:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aside from the fact that i need a slightly better video card. Vista seems to be ok. All the security stuff can be worked around. I don't really like it because it's all sizzle and no steak in my opinion. But like every company...Microsoft has a duty to it's share holders to keep people buying new product to keep sustain their bottom line. Besides, you're gonna have to go to Vista sooner or later. God bless Bill Gates. As a pc / It specialist he has put me in a new tax bracket with every single OS release!!! wahooo!
2007-07-31 05:54:03 · answer #6 · answered by YOU GOTTA MOVE TO IMPROVE! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I hate windows Vista!
I think Microsoft needs to read the fairy tale "The boy who cried wolf"
I mean to throw up a stupid "security" message after starting almost EVERY single program. What the crap.
Now I can't even get applications to load based on their associated MIME either. Must go through Visual Studio to load up a project instead of clicking on the prj files.
Microsoft programmers need their head examined for this operating system.
Oh and Vista doesn't support VS2002/2003! How crappy is that. So they sell a $1000+ software development package to developers only to outdate it in 4 years?!?!?!?!?!?
2007-07-31 05:54:38 · answer #7 · answered by hsueh010 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When I first got it in February I hated it with a passion, but now it has grown on me (i love the Areo Glass theme) and I am glad I stuck with it. The Asking Permission thing that was a problem in the beginning has subsided a lot and the incompatibility issue has gotten A Lot better.
2007-07-31 05:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by iluvpurple_05 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have it and theirs very very few things that are incompatible with it, I mean you can still use XP programs..
And you can change any high security setting you want, it is just that people are to lazy to figure out how cause they think Vista can do it by itself. Like the answerers above me.
(Not You cant say you hate it if you dont have it)
2007-07-31 05:49:37 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why? Well I don't hate it.
BUt it is a major chage , upgrade & new thing will alwasy have it's own trouble s to start with. That has been always true from Microsoft predecessor OS as well.
So either switch from it or develop love towards it ;-)
2007-07-31 05:54:48 · answer #10 · answered by vvm 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Best OS from MS so far. It is stable, secure, and fast. No problems so far. Runs all of my old software. Very good security that I can set the way I want it. Yes, it is a resource hog, but that's ok, I have allot of resources for it to draw upon. I like it.
2007-07-31 05:57:21 · answer #11 · answered by Ron M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋