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re: Win Xp vs Win Vista....
Monday, July 31, 2006 at 4:08 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by miffy900
(97 messages posted)
yeah, basically Microsoft just started implementing longtime features already
included in Mac OS X. i bet leopard will probably outdate vista when it comes
out.
On Monday, July 17, 2006 at 6:02 pm, JACK wrote:
>the basis for most of what you will SEE, in Vista is to provide a new "look" to
the
>Windows OS, and you can best see where Microsoft was trying to "Go Today" by looking
>at Mac OS X Tiger, its that close in many respects. But I digress.
>
>The few security features will ADD a lot of overhead to your daily mouse clicking
>and management of pop-up warnings, notices, and request for confirmation that will
>"eat into your time" like never before. The number of notices to alter, agree, install,
>accept etc is almost constant when you attempt to do anything from nearly the most
>basic thing as changing the look or your colors, the Time and Date, not to mention
>installing files.
>
>The protection Vista offers you now is more pronounced in a way that is "In Your
>FACE" with its chatty and vigilant attempt to regulate everything that happens (think
>of good old Office Clippy). While it is true that the system seems to be a better
>OS, the look and operation feel so much more like XP with a new shower curtain on
>it, than a really new OS.
>
>Buttons and Control Panels, have been moved, removed, grouped differently, so much
>that you will spend a few days poking around the area just to see what is new, and
>mostly what is Different, as opposed to new.
>
>The Aero views have some benefit in the Windows being somewhat Transparent when
laid
>upon each other...you can see that there is something behind the window, but it
is
>fuzzy and you cant see for sure what it says if it is a Named File Icon on your
desktop,
>for instance. The transparency in Vista is a far cry from OS X, which lets you see
>a clearer view of the icons and windows behind your main window, and this is adjustable
>in a manner that Vista does not match.
>
>I run a small network with a few Macs and PCs, access the web via cable modem and
>a WIFi B/G router, and use Vista on a newer PC with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, ATI 128mb video
>and Athlon 64 3400+, DVDRW and CDRW drives, a 160Gb and a 80GB EIDE (bootable) drives
>for XP and Vista, and one 250GB SATA for other data. I can tell you that on this
>system XP Pro is still Faster than Vista, so there surely must be some work left
>to do to make this thing ready for real users.
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- re: Win Xp vs Win Vista.... (JACK: Monday, July 17, 2006 at 6:02 pm)
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