J
Jimmy Mac
I'm really disappointed MS.
To Turn a great tool into a mere appliance.
The loss of tools, features, stability, customization, SPEED, user friendliness, logical design, compatibility and the lack support for CURRENT DAY hardware makes Windows Vista a very poor choice for the MS Windows literate power users. I've been using MS since DOS 3.11 and have used every flavor of Windows. Until Vista, I really thought that MS could do no worse than WinME. Well, I stand corrected.
Business owners, Vista is a great choice IF you want to cut your employees productivity and drastically increase your IT overhead.
Why would anyone want go back to the time when your IT staff spent 90% of their time explaining "You can't do it that way" or want to replace most of your perhipials because there's no support for those vital drivers you need?
MS, I can understand the need for a secure OS but clearly there are better ways than to mimic a MAC! This User Accounts Control? What a PAIN! And if we turn it off, we still can't change our HOSTS file (YES, sometimes this IS necessary) without logging in as THE local admin? And let's not even talk about the Acrobat Reader v8 issues!
I had to program a router the other day and decided to use my Vista system to connect to the serial port and launch Hyper Terminal. Whha?? WTF? It's GONE? Hmmm.. MS Doesn't want their OS to be used by techs in the field for performing simple tasks like programming a PLC? a Phone Switch? an Internet Security appliance? a freaking ROUTER?
Some of us even use your MS VPN's and used to rely on being able to EASILY determine whether we're connected by simply looking on the task bar to see the little iconS with the blinking monitors that let us know we are connected! Heck! we could even simply right click on the icon and disconnect from that VPN. Not that simple anymore No SIR!
Oh hell.. Windows Explorer? if you want the full path in the address bar, FORGET IT. View Details in EVERY FOLDER? Uhuh. Customize file & folders? (remember the Command Prompt here? GONE)
Here's another nail in the coffin for Vista.... It is more difficult to even turn off your computer anymore! In the past, sure you had to click the start button before you had the option to SHUT DOWN, but now you have to not only click the start button but is you hit what you think is the power button, you merely put your computer to sleep? Hello!! Some of us are in an areas where we want to conserve energy at night and on weekends! Oh.. and on that note, when the power goes off... D'oh!
Ahh... the newly designed Start menu! I just LOVE NOT being able to customize my "All Program" view! How the hell do we move the folders to the top of the list?
Damnit MS, we don't want a "New Visual Experience" on our business machines, we want practical and usable tools that improove performance, not kill it!!
Anyway, enough of my ranting, but I have no choice to stand up in the next budget meeting to inform the owners that if they want us to migrate to Vista, we're looking at upgrading brand new hardware to the tune of better than $3000 per employee and that we will have to spend 2 hours out of every 8 just to retrain everyone how to find what they are going to lose.
In a nutshell, for the corporate environment, Vista is a very poor choice. I think we're going take another look ad Linux.
Oh the joy!
Jim..
To Turn a great tool into a mere appliance.
The loss of tools, features, stability, customization, SPEED, user friendliness, logical design, compatibility and the lack support for CURRENT DAY hardware makes Windows Vista a very poor choice for the MS Windows literate power users. I've been using MS since DOS 3.11 and have used every flavor of Windows. Until Vista, I really thought that MS could do no worse than WinME. Well, I stand corrected.
Business owners, Vista is a great choice IF you want to cut your employees productivity and drastically increase your IT overhead.
Why would anyone want go back to the time when your IT staff spent 90% of their time explaining "You can't do it that way" or want to replace most of your perhipials because there's no support for those vital drivers you need?
MS, I can understand the need for a secure OS but clearly there are better ways than to mimic a MAC! This User Accounts Control? What a PAIN! And if we turn it off, we still can't change our HOSTS file (YES, sometimes this IS necessary) without logging in as THE local admin? And let's not even talk about the Acrobat Reader v8 issues!
I had to program a router the other day and decided to use my Vista system to connect to the serial port and launch Hyper Terminal. Whha?? WTF? It's GONE? Hmmm.. MS Doesn't want their OS to be used by techs in the field for performing simple tasks like programming a PLC? a Phone Switch? an Internet Security appliance? a freaking ROUTER?
Some of us even use your MS VPN's and used to rely on being able to EASILY determine whether we're connected by simply looking on the task bar to see the little iconS with the blinking monitors that let us know we are connected! Heck! we could even simply right click on the icon and disconnect from that VPN. Not that simple anymore No SIR!
Oh hell.. Windows Explorer? if you want the full path in the address bar, FORGET IT. View Details in EVERY FOLDER? Uhuh. Customize file & folders? (remember the Command Prompt here? GONE)
Here's another nail in the coffin for Vista.... It is more difficult to even turn off your computer anymore! In the past, sure you had to click the start button before you had the option to SHUT DOWN, but now you have to not only click the start button but is you hit what you think is the power button, you merely put your computer to sleep? Hello!! Some of us are in an areas where we want to conserve energy at night and on weekends! Oh.. and on that note, when the power goes off... D'oh!
Ahh... the newly designed Start menu! I just LOVE NOT being able to customize my "All Program" view! How the hell do we move the folders to the top of the list?
Damnit MS, we don't want a "New Visual Experience" on our business machines, we want practical and usable tools that improove performance, not kill it!!
Anyway, enough of my ranting, but I have no choice to stand up in the next budget meeting to inform the owners that if they want us to migrate to Vista, we're looking at upgrading brand new hardware to the tune of better than $3000 per employee and that we will have to spend 2 hours out of every 8 just to retrain everyone how to find what they are going to lose.
In a nutshell, for the corporate environment, Vista is a very poor choice. I think we're going take another look ad Linux.
Oh the joy!
Jim..