“So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we’ve found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement, and several things that work at best intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish we’d never moved,” Angus Kidman reports for iTWire.
MacDailyNews Take: We know something that works far better than Windows XP: Apple’s Mac OS X. You shouldn’t have moved, you should’ve switched.
Kidman reports, “We should point out at the start that we migrated to Windows Vista under supposedly optimal circumstances. We waited for a few weeks before even thinking about it, so that we’d avoid any early release showstopper bugs. We purchased a machine from a prominent manufacturer (Lenovo) with Vista pre-installed, so we could avoid the upgrade nightmares that have plagued everyone else we know who’s been forced to shift to Vista… And we’ve deliberately kept the installed software on the machine to a minimum, to minimise the chance of an incompatible application blowout.”
Kidman reports, “For starters, it’s hideously slow — notably slower than our previous machine, despite the fact that the new model has twice as much memory and a much faster processor… The lack of anything approaching basic network functionality is our biggest complaint… We’ll give credit to Microsoft support for trying hard, but if you can’t get basic IP working in 2007, something pretty fundamental is going wrong.”
Kidman reports, “Outside of the basic functionality issues, there are dozens of minor changes that haven’t done anything to improve our productivity… We could go on — about the stupid interface in Windows Explorer, the non-existent search functionality, the arbitrary changes to menu names, even the horrible font choices. But the bottom line is that if we had shares in Microsoft, we’d be demanding changes more extensive than those that came between XP and SP2 to give this dog of a product any chance in the marketplace.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Rack up yet another stellar Windows Vista review. Microsoft should be ashamed, but they won’t be; instead, they’ll just pump up the ad budget for their latest mess and spend the next 5+ years trying to patch it.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Island Girl” for the heads up.]
Vista = The best ad for Mac OS X!
Peace.
The “Wow” starts when?
That’s a pretty damning article. My only regret is that it is too short; I would have enjoyed reading a good deal more of the same.
YOU SUPPPOSED TO SUFFER AT WORK!
Happy workers are not productive workers, they cry and want this and that!
Well you just have to like VISTA because that’s what workers deserve.
Lousy peons!!
Mullalahahaha!!
Sincerly B. Gates.
Stephen:
The “Wow” starts on June 11th.
so we could avoid the upgrade nightmares that have plagued everyone else we know who’s been forced to shift to Vista
What kind of idiot would even think about upgrading with that glowing recommendation? Keep these morons away from Macs.
It totally amazes me who these windows users….uh sufferers….put up with MS windows junk. And to think folks who put up with the obvious problems with windows will be the first to dis the Mac with no proof of Mac problems. Some folks I talk to still think the same old story for cryin’ out loud…..1. No software for Mac Myth…..2. Mac has to little Market Share and MS has a huge Market Share….3. Macs are good for graphics only……4. and the big one (feel like Lettermen)… No games for the Mac.
Folks who use their computers with the feeling of being inseprable from MS and anti-Mac mind-set deserve the negative computing expreience they get.
Island Girl gets the “heads up” ?
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Somewhere in that line is a joke, but I’m not going to go there
@FTMF
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Look in the mirror dude. You’ll see the joke.
I can hear the chairs flying again.
Just a different kind of “wow” – said in a whole different tone of voice.
Vista isn’t that bad…
It’s just not that interesting, just Windows XP 1.5
My Nanna is getting my Grandad a laptop for his Birthday & wants me to help her. I (of course) suggested a Macbook, but she says they are to expensive & doesn’t want to spend more than £400. I can understand that. I explained getting a Mac will be cheaper in the long term, but no lol.
I can’t wait for them to keep asking me how to use Vista & fix something when they don’t know what has gone wrong (assuming anything does go wrong!)
Microsoft should definitely change the Vista slogan to “The Bow Wow starts now.” No offense to dogs of the canine variety everywhere.
Happy workers are not productive workers, they cry and want this and that!
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Yeah. I always cry when I’m happy.
Hilarious joke by the way.
about the stupid interface in Windows Explorer, the non-existent search functionality
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I used Vista about a week after it came out.. one of my classmates got a brand new Dell and .. as the Mac user, I was showing him all the stuff that was cool in Vista.. I saw the search bar and I was showing him how easy it was.. to.. use..
Sorry, they had a couple years to oogle Tiger and they still got it wrong. It’s not fast enough and it doesn’t give you what you want to see. A joke. Still feels like work
Will anybody ever be able to measure the full horror of Windows ? (shudder)
WOWzers!!!!
“Folks who use their computers with the feeling of being inseprable from MS and anti-Mac mind-set deserve the negative computing expreience they get.”
Amen brother!
Let them live in hell! They deserve it for their pathetic ignorance alone.
Vista, a stinking carcass for your PC casket.
The “wow” started a long, long time ago…
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/4E2A8848-5738-45B1-A659-AD7473899D7D.html
Cambell’s Selects Chicken w/ Egg Noodle Soup
Smell the savory broth…
Taste tender white meat chicken…
It’s irresistable.
Mhhhmmmm
Why settle when you can select?
> something pretty fundamental is going wrong.
Windows is fundamentally flawed. That about sums it up. It’s not going to be fixed with the first service pack. THIS is what Microsoft and Windows users are going to have to live with for the next five years.
“I can’t wait for them to keep asking me how to use Vista & fix something when they don’t know what has gone wrong (assuming anything does go wrong!)”
I second that. My friend went with a pee see because of price, two days later he needs help with his “people pc” account. lol
MDN “magic word” simply: as in Macintosh is simply irresistible.
@hmm
Is it even possible to get a laptop fast enough for Vista for £400? Maybe find someone still selling XP?
Better a second hand iBook
or go Linux
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/laptops/