Over the weekend I bought a laptop; office depot had a nice toshiba on sale for $349 after a huge $200 rebate that will no doubt take 6 months to arrive. And I was “lucky” enough to have it include windows vista.
I can easily sum up windows vista-it tries to solve problems that never existed.
Unlike XP, which I felt actually gave me better control over my computer and ran as smooth as any operating system yet on a regular PC, vista tries to take away control of everything and dumb it all down. Now just trying to look at your file folders becomes a chore because everything is put into groups…photos..videos…songs…instead of a standard file system. i have no real idea where anything is going on my computer. how very mac-ish.
seriously, there was nothing wrong with XP. the big hulabalo about vista is its so “safe”. i’m sorry but if you had virus problems with XP its because you either were trying to download illegal files or you surfed far too much porn. With vista though, everything you try to run gets blocked and it brings up this box that seems to try to frighten you by saying “are you SURE you want to run this? Did you REALLY mean to do that? Do you want to let this program that you very deliberately installed do what it is supposed to? Do you want your computer to be at all useful? Did you enjoy flushing $150 down the drain for our unnecessary software?”
I have found myself working feverishly to try and make the operating system work like XP did by turning off all the unneccesary protections and new “easier” menus. Its taking more time to do that than it would to just format the computer and install XP from scratch.
Stupid Bill Gates, why do you think you need to be like the mac? Give me back control of my computer! quit trying to hide everything in order to make it ”appear” user friendly! annoying. just let windows be windows…a buggy but adequate way to get stuff done for people who actually know how to use computers. not a freaking ice cream social of an operating system that treats me like a 6 year old.
Windows Vista: An Unmitigated Disaster
Over the weekend I bought a laptop; office depot had a nice toshiba on sale for $349 after a huge $200 rebate that will no doubt take 6 months to arrive. And I was “lucky” enough to have it include windows vista.
I can easily sum up windows vista-it tries to solve problems that never existed.
Unlike XP, which I felt actually gave me better control over my computer and ran as smooth as any operating system yet on a regular PC, vista tries to take away control of everything and dumb it all down. Now just trying to look at your file folders becomes a chore because everything is put into groups…photos..videos…songs…instead of a standard file system. i have no real idea where anything is going on my computer. how very mac-ish.
seriously, there was nothing wrong with XP. the big hulabalo about vista is its so “safe”. i’m sorry but if you had virus problems with XP its because you either were trying to download illegal files or you surfed far too much porn. With vista though, everything you try to run gets blocked and it brings up this box that seems to try to frighten you by saying “are you SURE you want to run this? Did you REALLY mean to do that? Do you want to let this program that you very deliberately installed do what it is supposed to? Do you want your computer to be at all useful? Did you enjoy flushing $150 down the drain for our unnecessary software?”
I have found myself working feverishly to try and make the operating system work like XP did by turning off all the unneccesary protections and new “easier” menus. Its taking more time to do that than it would to just format the computer and install XP from scratch.
Stupid Bill Gates, why do you think you need to be like the mac? Give me back control of my computer! quit trying to hide everything in order to make it ”appear” user friendly! annoying. just let windows be windows…a buggy but adequate way to get stuff done for people who actually know how to use computers. not a freaking ice cream social of an operating system that treats me like a 6 year old.