When Will Vista REALLY Be Ready?
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| What is the bug? Hover over your task bar or clock and notice that the
| Tooltips are now hidden behind the task bar. If you want to know what day it
| is, you'll have to double-click on the time instead of just hovering over it.
| What a dumb glitch, and after 6 years still no fix from Microsoft. But guess
| what? This bug was FIRST reported in Windows 95, so the glitch is actually
| TWICE as old as Windows XP.
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http://www.flightsimworld.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=130790
Still Struggling With Win Vista...
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| I smell a Class Action Lawsuit comin...
|
| [...]
|
| Is it really that hard to improve upon something that already works? Can't
| you just make the window dressing more attractive without re - thinking and
| irrevocably changing the way even the simplest programs work. Why on earth
| would you remove functionality from a program and tell the world that it's
| been improved, or make a simple task 10 times harder than it has to be, just
| to give the consumer a false sense of security.
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http://digitaldilemmas.blogspot.com/2007/11/still-struggling-with-win-vista.html
Related:
Users Demand Upgrade from Vista To XP
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| Admittedly, I find myself amused with the latest Vista sales numbers, as they
| seem to forget how many of those same people are disgusted once they break
| the seal and want to take Vista back.
|
| I know a number of repair techs, most of them running smaller shops and all
| of them are reporting people asking for "their XP back."
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2685&Itemid=449
Georgia Tech - Software for Staff
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| OIT and the Georgia Tech IT Community do not recommend the Microsoft Vista
| operating system for most users at this time. We advise that you work with
| your departmental technical support resources when considering a move to the
| Vista operating system.
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http://www.oit.gatech.edu/staff/software_distribution/overview.cfm
Nine burning questions about how Vista is really doing
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| Instead, there's so much spin -- from Microsoft, from rivals such
| as Apple Inc., from market analysts pushing research and more research
| -- it would even leave Sasha Cohen dizzy. Here's our attempt to unravel
| this puzzle-shrinkwrapped-in-a-mystery.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9021838
http://tinyurl.com/2u6gzq
Anti-Features
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| DRM and trusted/treacherous computing systems are, in many ways, an extreme
| example of anti-features.
|
| [...]
|
| Unfortunately for the companies and individuals trying to push anti-features,
| users increasingly often have alternatives in free software. Similar to
| Mozilla's pop-up blocking feature, RAW was low-hanging fruit for the free
| software developers working on CHDK. The absence of similar anti-features
| form some of the the easiest victories for free software. It does not cost
| free software developers anything to avoid anti-features. In many cases,
| doing nothing is exactly what users want.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures
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