Metropol

I shall leave you with a single point to show why UAC is a good thing.

I had to reformat the laptop which was full of shite, slow and and spywaretype things littering it. It was unsalvagable. It runs XP, it's updates were woefully behind and it was just hopeless.

The dell machine runs vista. It was completely up to date, completely tidy, had no muck and required only a defrag to bring it up to my standards.

IMHO, that's progress.

Dr Lobster* wrote:as far as vista is concerned, i've never been able to see the 'value' in it. the most useful feature (instant search) is already available in xp (a more flexible bitlocker equivalent is available in the guise of truecrypt which is free)

there are a few people who rave about the 'interface', i mean, clear title bars... who gives a feck? i feel more for those sad people who brought the 'ultimate' edition of windows vista expecting great things from the 'ultimate extra' programme... what did they get? animated wallpaper. brilliant. more for them if they fall for that trick again.

vista had more of what i would call 'incremental' additions - sure there are a few nice tweaks to explorer and so on but fundamentally it does nothing you can't do with xp with a couple of tweaks or free 3rd party addons.

My feeling with Vista is that it's more of a 'technology' release - new networking stack, audio stack, driver model etc. which will only be allowed to properly mature with Windows 7, where driver support should be close to ubiquitous etc.

A lot of software producers seem to be ignoring Vista at the moment. Even brand new games (many EA ones) do not work with Vista but work with XP. If Vista is just a shiny XP, why does it refuse to run a lot of software that XP is fine with?

There is a Compatibility Mode, you know that, right?

Metropol

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