Windows Vista Ultimate

[compilerbitch]

First impressions:

Utter pile of crap.

Avoid.

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist several hours to consistently fail to even be able to download a file. Yes, you heard it. I've spent several hours attempting to download, er, a file. I'll say one thing for it: it's secure. But then, leaving my machine turned off is secure, too, and equivalently functional.

Buy. A. Mac. Instead.

Really.

Comments

[shermarama]

I've just bought a new laptop (according to the tracking it's at the East London delivery depot now, which might mean that I get it tomorrow, wooo) and this will be the first computer I've owned that runs on XP - desktop and this laptop still use Win2K, which I find far more sensible. I'm not going to be touching Vista with a bargepole if I can help it.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

My laptop could've come with a free Vista upgrade, but I didn't see the point.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it seems that Vista actually works if you turn off its security features.

Nice. Pretty stylish there, Microsoft. Spend billions improving security, but lock things down so much that the only way you can make the machine usable is to turn all of it off. It's such a newbie mistake to make in computer security -- they should be ashamed of themselves.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

Surely from their perspective it's perfect?

They can blame the user for turning off the security if things go wrong, and charge you even more for Windows Live OneCare to fix their mistakes?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

OneCare

Yeah, I heard something similar said about them.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

By default, basically nearly everything is disabled, even the online help! You can't even download files with the web browser. It is just totally insane. Of *course* people are going to disable the security. I just don't get it.

(I hope to doG that the NASA powers that be don't insist on Vista with security enabled -- if they do, I'll play hell to swap to a mac!)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I don't recall exactly but I had to turn off the firewall on XP Home to be able to SSH out or some similar operation. So not a new feature, there l-)