Vista problems
August 11th, 2009 by David Bradley >> 2 Comments
Business users seem to agree that Vista was not the optimal operating release from Microsoft. Apparently, despite the release of the alleged operating system upgrade, most businesses that were using Windows have stuck with XP. Just 12% have gone from an earlier version of Windows to Vista. I should know, I’m one of them. I suspect businesses will either make the leap straight to Windows 7 when their software or hardware forces them to, or better still will jump ship to open source Linux as an operating system.
There are calls for Microsoft to give users of the operating system a free upgrade to version 7, which would be nice as my kids’ PC is running Vista and I’d much prefer them to grow up with a decent OS.
Anyway, none of this explains why so many people (according to Jim Connolly) are searching for the phrase “Vista sucks”. Indeed, Google Adwords ranks the phrase with a global monthly search volume of 18,100 compared to a mere 1,300 for “XP sucks”, 5,400 for “Linux sucks”, and a surprising 6,600 for “apple sucks”.
So, what do you think? Are you an XP user readying yourself to leapfrog over Vista straight to Windows 7? Or, have you already done the sensible thing and gone to Linux. Please don’t tell me you’ve trapped yourself in another proprietary device-software monopoly by buying a Mac…
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Josh // Aug 11, 2009 at 4:35 pm
My servers (both home and remote web) are linux, and might get restarted two or three times a year. I still use XP on my main computer, and will probably continue to do so for a while. There is a good chance that when I upgrade, it’ll be either XP or windows 7 running as a virtual machine on a linux computer. I think that’ll be the easiest way to do as much on linux as I can, while still making it easy to deal with windows when I have to.
Nonnie // Aug 16, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Vista is fine, except for a few things. Microsoft likes to disable functionality with every new OS version, Microsoft likes to add extra clicks to do simple stuff and Microsoft likes Stupid Defaults.
The biggest annoyance with Vista imho is its search. It’s a beta piece of sht which doesn’t work. It relies on a stupid resource consuming indexing service which should be optional. I don’t mind having to wait for a while in the odd case I am looking for something. No need for a database, no need for hanky panky options, no need to click click click click click click in order to retrieve something which took less than a second in earlier versions.
Microsoft removed the classic search option although searching your Vista machine from an old Windows2000 PC via the network just works great. As it should. Fast, reliable and no nags. Why on earth did they hide this? Just one answer is possible: They want to compete with Google Desktop Search. You MUST use the ‘terrific’ new MS Search.
Microsoft removed the search option from the right mouse button context menu by adding a stupid registry key in SP1 and beyond. Delete it and search is back. You don’t need to go to start, search, advanced search, browse, etc. Probably many people had been complaining at Microsoft about the ability to search from the right mouse button context menu.
Microsoft needs to look who is responsible for stupid decisions. I am quite positive some illiterate people are in charge. People who never use a PC. People who have assistants to do daily things.
Maybe this rings a bell at MS HQ: stupid things like this make users complain at ICT departments. Stupid things like this make that companies rather not switch to new OS versions. Most users don’t need animated dogs or extra-extra steps in order to do the same stupid thing that used to take one click.
Forget about it. Microsoft has its own ideas. MS Stupidity has been around for decades. They sell and that’s their only objective. Too bad that excellent technology gets overshadowed with pure sht.