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John Jay Smith
--Win95 was a great improvement..a revolution (although it did borrow ideas
form others)
--Win98 was like 95 but it sorted out all the buts and added some new
technologies
--Win98SE had some minor improvements
--WinMe, was an abomination. They tried to load 1000 gui improvements on a
core that just couldnt handle the
task! Results? It kept crashing....
--Win2000 was another milestone, but the target was not on the masses, thus
it was not so popular as it deserved.
--WinXP was the best OS MS had made, flexible, easy to use, stable, popular
(meaning that you could find drivers)..
END OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF WINDOWS
and now we have vista.... that has big problems:
1) While XP goal was to make it easy for users to use, vista is a strange
monster.....
They changed the start button to an orb. Now the word start was not super
fantastic, but you could
tell someone from the phone press the start button if you wanted to give him
support. Now what
are you going to tell him? Press the ORB? What the heck is an orb, will be
the most likely reply.
2) The start menu unfolds upon itself, this means you cannot see the path
you are going with your mouse
in a visual unfolding menu. But that will it HARDER for people to remember
and do fast mouse actions.
The reason for this unfolding upon itself was because with XP you ended up
having too long of a start menu.
However there are tools that solve this problem like www.tidystartmenu.com .
Couldn't, MS just buy this technology and add a startmeny tidy wizard?
3) The whole black color of Vista is depressing and bad. Black is the worse
color they could choose.
They dont seem like they are willing to give alternatives to that stupid
aero glass, only a way to tint the
colors of the windows. Black is depressing.. Luna from XP was happy!!!
4) The whole OS is a monster... 7 gb of HD space needed, 512 ram is the
absolute minimum of ram,
its sluggish slow.. and it needs to have super high end graphic adaptors
(see point5)
5) People who even have new computers and especially laptops will not be
able to use AERO.
Even New very expensive laptops cannot work with aero... and they COULD make
aero work without
having a super GPU, like window blinds does.. and IF they had a better GPU
it would work better. But
noooooo.... MS wants to push all technology so people wills start buying
more hardware. I bet we will see
a Microsoft GPU in no time!
I could go on and on... but lets face it. When I install Vista I will do it
because it will support new technologies,
and because MS will fade out XP slowly using its techniques (vista only
technology).
But when I install it, I will have to tweak it to make it usable. Even if I
do it, other simple users wont be able to.
I support and teach hundreds of people... I know what they will start
asking.. I know their complaints beforehand!
If some of them struggled to use XP, what will they do with vista? Its a
step backward.... an abomination!
And this "change" is because it wants to do something different for
marketing reasons... these changes are stupid, not to
really give the user a better "user experience"
form others)
--Win98 was like 95 but it sorted out all the buts and added some new
technologies
--Win98SE had some minor improvements
--WinMe, was an abomination. They tried to load 1000 gui improvements on a
core that just couldnt handle the
task! Results? It kept crashing....
--Win2000 was another milestone, but the target was not on the masses, thus
it was not so popular as it deserved.
--WinXP was the best OS MS had made, flexible, easy to use, stable, popular
(meaning that you could find drivers)..
END OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF WINDOWS
and now we have vista.... that has big problems:
1) While XP goal was to make it easy for users to use, vista is a strange
monster.....
They changed the start button to an orb. Now the word start was not super
fantastic, but you could
tell someone from the phone press the start button if you wanted to give him
support. Now what
are you going to tell him? Press the ORB? What the heck is an orb, will be
the most likely reply.
2) The start menu unfolds upon itself, this means you cannot see the path
you are going with your mouse
in a visual unfolding menu. But that will it HARDER for people to remember
and do fast mouse actions.
The reason for this unfolding upon itself was because with XP you ended up
having too long of a start menu.
However there are tools that solve this problem like www.tidystartmenu.com .
Couldn't, MS just buy this technology and add a startmeny tidy wizard?
3) The whole black color of Vista is depressing and bad. Black is the worse
color they could choose.
They dont seem like they are willing to give alternatives to that stupid
aero glass, only a way to tint the
colors of the windows. Black is depressing.. Luna from XP was happy!!!
4) The whole OS is a monster... 7 gb of HD space needed, 512 ram is the
absolute minimum of ram,
its sluggish slow.. and it needs to have super high end graphic adaptors
(see point5)
5) People who even have new computers and especially laptops will not be
able to use AERO.
Even New very expensive laptops cannot work with aero... and they COULD make
aero work without
having a super GPU, like window blinds does.. and IF they had a better GPU
it would work better. But
noooooo.... MS wants to push all technology so people wills start buying
more hardware. I bet we will see
a Microsoft GPU in no time!
I could go on and on... but lets face it. When I install Vista I will do it
because it will support new technologies,
and because MS will fade out XP slowly using its techniques (vista only
technology).
But when I install it, I will have to tweak it to make it usable. Even if I
do it, other simple users wont be able to.
I support and teach hundreds of people... I know what they will start
asking.. I know their complaints beforehand!
If some of them struggled to use XP, what will they do with vista? Its a
step backward.... an abomination!
And this "change" is because it wants to do something different for
marketing reasons... these changes are stupid, not to
really give the user a better "user experience"
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