Windows Vista: Top 12 Reasons To Stay Away—Stay Very Far Away
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| 1. Bloatware Supreme Supersized With Cheese
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| 2. More Security Than Gary Coleman Guarding A Mall
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| 3. The GUI—Graphical User Interference
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| 4. No TV For You!
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| 5. Windows Mobile Device Center—Anybody Home?
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| 6. WeirdORama
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| 7. Oh Draconian Licensing
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| 8. Screech…Crash—No Airbags In This Thing?
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| 9. Video Files Not For Videophiles
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| 10. The Ultimate Ipod Brick Maker
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| 11. ON/OFF & Everything In Between
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| 12. Ouch, My Credit Card Is Burning!
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http://hugohawken.blogspot.com/2007/11/windows-vista-top-12-reasons-to-stay.html
Vista does something right:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2123/2036179337_99b3108414.jpg?v=0
I don't think this was menttioned in COLA before:
Organic Windows Vista Virus Can Target Computers Even When Powered Down
http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=322
Related:
Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...
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| Among silicon.com readers at least, the most recent iteration of Windows -
| aka Vista - garnered just 14 per cent of the vote, making it less popular
| than both Mac OS X and Linux.
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| [...]
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| Another reader - going by the name Richard A - said he was "shocked" at how
| slow the OS ran on a new Intel core duo Sony Vaio laptop. "Why anybody would
| willingly trade a stable and established XP environment for the wading though
| treacle experience of driverless Vista is quite utterly beyond me," he said,
| adding: "Granted, it has borrowed a few nice flourishes from the Apple Mac
| user interface but it really has little else to recommend it above XP. Apart
| from security, of course."
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| Neil Thatcher, an IT manager from the South East, summed up many readers'
| views with his Reader Comment: "The changes to Vista over XP are simply gloss
| and change for change's sake which translate as nothing more than
| annoyances."
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| Microsoft was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39169139,00.htm
More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516
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| "In the long years since XP was launched, Apple have come out with five
| major upgrades to OS X, upgrades which (dare I say it?) install with about
| as much effort as it takes to brush your teeth in the morning. No nightmare
| calls to tech-support, no sudden hardware incompatibilities, no hassle. Why
| hasn't Microsoft kept up? Unmaintainable"
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| "Right now, Microsoft has nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. After all
| the hype surrounding Vista, the Emperor has finally been revealed in all
| his naked glory. Some folks have been predicting the demise of Microsoft. I
| wouldn't go that far, but I am wondering how we?re ever going to take
| Microsoft seriously again?"
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/
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