Windows Vista [Short Review]
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| This may sound bias, but it really isn?t, as my copy of Vista was free,
| so I have no vested interest in bashing Vista if I am just going to use
| it in the secrecy of my computer room. I just don?t see a compelling
| reason to run it. 99% of my computer usage revolves around web
| browsing, instant messenger, emailing, web design and coding.
| In those scenarios, Ubuntu provides a better platform that doesn't
| get in my way.
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http://www.sharms.org/blog/?p=93
Here is a funny little picture:
http://fozbaca.org/archives/WindowsXPwithFirewall.jpg
Related:
Windows Vista: Flawed Just Like Windows Me
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| I'll be honest here, the conclusion that Vista is comparable to
| Windows Me could be seen as harsh to some. However, when you stop and
| look at the bigger picture, it's quite possible that Mr. Null
| could be correct in his belief that Microsoft is basically
| repeating history.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2489
Information on Windows Vista.
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| So what's the first story? Well my father asked me to put Vista
| Ultimate on his laptop. My dad the Windows Lover I
| thought. This ought to teach him. And indeed it did. The Control
| panel crashed The system when you tried to open it.
| Explorer.exe crashed all The time. He could not find drivers
| for his new Vista Ready laptop, He had all kinds of fun. In
| The end he told me he would rather use Linux than Vista lol.
| Now I have him convinced.
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http://www.mindblowingidea.com/WindowsVista.html
Linux desktops: Wiping the shine off Microsoft Vista?
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| Some Linux vendors talk about the opportunities presented by the
| release (finally) of Microsoft Vista.
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| [...]
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| There's time for Microsoft shops to decide on an alternative, too,
| says blogger Lynn Linse on the Lynn Verse Computer (LVC) blog:
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| "...most organizations with more than 100 (or perhaps more than a
| dozen?) computers will just 'ghost' any new Vista-licensed computers
| back to Windows XP (or even 2000) for at least a year."
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/03/11/linux-desktops-wiping-the-shine-off-microsoft-vista/
http://tinyurl.com/2t8476
An Open Letter to Microsoft: Re-Release Windows XP
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| It's time to sober up on Windows Vista. This just isn't working out,
| and your users are getting frustrated to the point where they're souring
| on Windows altogether. In case you haven't seen some of the more
| noteworthy blog posts on this topic, I refer you to Chris Pirillo,
| Scot's Newsletter, or Spend Matters. Or check out the recent bug
| reports regarding product activation and security flaws. This is all
| stuff I managed to dredge up that was written yesterday.
|
| People are unhappy with Vista. Really unhappy. And though I know Microsoft
| has its own form of Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, it certainly
| can't keep you from seeing at least some of the sobering sales figures and
| the crush of disappointing reviews of Vista. I don't want to dredge up all
| the reasons people are unhappy with Vista in this letter. I want to talk
| about what you ought to do stop a mass migration to Linux and the Mac.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/18428/an-open-letter-to-microsoft-re-release-windows-xp
An open letter to Bill Gates
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| Dear Bill Gates
|
| Give me back my weekend. I bought a new Windows Vista laptop -- and
| that's when the trouble began.
|
| [...]
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| But what really grates is that your system is incompatible with two
| of the vital tools of my trade. Vista refuses to load the software
| for my newish Olympus digital recorder. And here?s what takes the
| biscuit. Vista rejects my HP IPAQ handheld device ? even though the
| software for that was created by Microsoft!
|
| So in order to put Vista at the centre of what I do, I would have to
| buy hundreds of pounds of new hardware.
|
| [...]
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| My conclusion? For all the expensive and much-extended gestation,
| Vista was not ready for commercial release. And, just so you know,
| I've never once had a comparably horrible experience with the
| Google boys.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2007/02/an_open_letter_to_bill_gates.html
http://tinyurl.com/2tlc8w
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