Poll: Will you rush out to buy Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating
system?
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| Yes
|
| 3%
|
| 1779 votes
|
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| No
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| 97%
|
| 52651 votes
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http://www.cnn.com/POLLSERVER/results/29836.exclude.html
Things that don't quite work right in Windows Vista
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| Vista's 1394 support is mostly broken.
|
| Hybrid sleep takes forever to complete the low power transition on a laptop
| with 2GB (or 1.5GB) of RAM.
|
| The Windows Vista RDP client has an ill-advised default behavior...
|
| Credential saving in IE7 is unintuitive at best.
|
| Switching users will kill RAS (dial-up) connections.
|
| Something seems to cause Vista to hold on to IP addresses after their
| associated adapter has gone down.
|
| You can't use runas on explorer or IE anymore.
|
| Managing RAS connections is a royal pain.
|
| There is a no way that I can tell to change the default domain name used in
| UAC elevation prompts (if you?re a non-admin user providing
| over-the-shoulder (OTS) credentials)...
|
| You can't scroll down in the bottom pane of the "Networking"
|
| There is no way to modify Terminal Server connection ACLs.
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http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=109
Related (more bugs):
Vista sends 49,693 page print job to printer
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| Well obviously I didn't intend for this to happen. I chose file->print
| inside Firefox 2.0.0.1 running on Vista Enterprise. I just assumed
| it printed the one page I requested, but when I went to the printer
| in the next room, I discovered it was spewing out pages with nothing
| but the header and footer from Firefox. Great work, Microsoft. Or
| maybe it is Firefox's fault? Who the hell knows.
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http://www.hinerman.net/blog/?p=63
Vista Bug re-appears
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| Nice... minus one million, three hundred eight thousand, two
| hundred fifty nine bytes... how is that any where near or
| mathematically altered to 2.11 MB?
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http://jadeallen.com/toms/index.asp?DoAction=ReadDay&ID=359
Windows Vista's Hideous Wakeup Support
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| One thing we just can't wrap our mind about is the terrible,
| broken, and completely pitiful support for waking Vista up from
| a Deep Sleep or hibernation.' Any time you attempt to wake Vista
| up from Hibernation or "Deep Sleep" (S3-induced sleep mode), it
| dies. It's either a BSOD, or a driver error, or a broken network,
| no DWM, lack of sound... the list goes on, and on. So much for an
| operating system to "power" the future! (No pun intended!) That's
| with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on
| multiple PCs...
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/299
TI won't rush into Microsoft Vista readily
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| Corporate American, no, make that corporate everywhere is treating Vista
| like a dead animal found in the woods, they will poke it with a stick,
| but there is no way they will take it home. Take TI for instance, it
| is not going to touch the wonder OS for another two years or so.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36259
Installing A PS/2 Mouse Turns Off Firewall, Huh!
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| I plugged in the PS/2 mouse, rebooted the PC and on restart XP found the
| PS/2 mouse and suggested rebooting again, which I did. When it restarted
| the Microsoft Firewall had been switched off. How do I know, because it
| told me I had no firewall.
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http://crunchysoftware.wordpress.com/2006/12/09/ps2-mouse-turns-off-firewall/
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 Sucks!
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| I know Microsoft's release of IE 7.0 is in beta, but I still didn't
| expect it to be such a big piece of crap and cause hours of misery.
|
| [...]
|
| What Microsoft hoped would help it win back Firefox "switchers" has
| done nothing but add one more to their growing ranks.
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http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/02/microsoft-ie-70-sucks.html
Just One Question For Vista: Does It Simply Work -- Like An Apple?
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| Jim Allchin responds over on his blog regarding a recent news report
| quoting him as saying that he would have bought a Mac if he weren't
| working for Microsoft in an email to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.
|
| [...]
|
| So the challenge for Microsoft, and in some ways to an even larger
| extent Allchin himself personally, is to ship Vista in a state that
| is as bug free as the Mac.
|
| Vista is Allchin's final legacy at Microsoft. After a long successful
| career this is his last hurah and in order to be successful it simply
| must be perfect.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061213/22341_id.html?.v=1
Life with Vista - Is this dogfood really for the dogs?
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| I'm an absolute freak when it comes to .NET technologies. My blog
| is called the ".NET Addict", so it should be pretty obvious that
| the day Vista's RTM build came out, I downloaded it and installed
| it on every Vista-capable machine I had in my possession. I've
| been using Vista for several weeks now and I've come to a couple
| of conclusions that I think might startle and shock some of you.
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http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/vista_dogfood.htm
He claims RTM is in the state of a beta.
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
|
| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
Vista... Don't Try to Copy and Paste
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| Vista gave me the following when trying to copy a
| file:
|
| Error 0x800705AD. Ohh, well of course... I should have known error
| 0x800705AD means the user tried to COPY AND PASTE. Are you shitting
| me?! Insufficient quota? WTF are you talking about Vista. First
| let's check that I have enough disk space:
|
| Ok, now by my calculations 413 MBs < 22.8 GBs. I can normally
| figure out almost any computer related problem.
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http://buckwheats.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/vista%e2%80%a6-don%e2%80%99t-try-to-copy-and-paste-o/
Vista: Behind the scenes
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| Some of the glitches were already known. Many were things that have
| already been fixed, and a few were too new and need investigating.
| None appeared to be a show-stopper.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6133491.html
Analysts: Microsoft Changes Meaning Of 'Release Candidate'
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| Two industry watchers say Microsoft is corrupting the term, leading to
| major confusion among customers and others about whether the operating
| system is truly ready to evaluate.
|
| Two analysts Thursday accused Microsoft Corp. of changing the meaning
| of "release candidate" by pushing out a version of Windows Vista that
| still needs major work.
|
| [...]
|
| Joe Wilcox, an analyst with JupiterResearch, said that Microsoft's
| corrupted the term.
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192700055&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
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