Windows Vista First Impressions (ongoing draft)
Lets start with the negatives:
- User Access Controls - this thing which is supposed to provide greater security will end up getting disabled because it is the greatest piece of nagware ever created. You can’t copy a file without the damn dialog box popping up. Did they actually test this before releasing it? It’s absurd!
- Windows Explorer - why did they get rid of the up-one-level button? That was probably the most useful icon and now it’s dissappeared. Strange how they would make a “better” version of windows yet make it less functional, no?
- Start Menu - the whole scrolling programs thing sucks.
- Icons - suck
- Memory Hog
Ruban said,
February 27, 2007 @ 11:17pm
agreed with all points, and moreover:
- phone, printer, and other drivers don’t work w/ Vista
- Acrobat 7 can’t print PDF files from IE due to its stupid permissioning
- half the programs have to be run by right clicking and selecting “Run as administrator”
- the “Administrator” account has been disabled
- one wrong click on a dialog box can have you lock up the computer for several minutes as it automatically modifies the permissions for thousands of files that you didn’t want access to