Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st May 2008 00:21 UTC
Vista has not exactly been a massive market success. Sales numbers might be satisfactory due to OEM agreements, but press and public reception have been terrible, and there are several recurring themes in the complaints from people. Microsoft took five of these recurring themes, and addressed them in a document called 'Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista'.
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RE: If you have to explain it...
by Horatio_Hellpop on Wed 21st May 2008 13:50
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RE: If you have to explain it...
by eggs on Wed 21st May 2008 14:51
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If you have to explain it, then you did it wrong.
The biggest annoyances for me regarding Vista are:
1) It is big and slow
2) Graphics kind of suck. For example, overlays are done poorly. On my machine (which is modern and has a 512MB Nvidia card in it), all the UAC dialogs cause the screen to go completely blank for about 2 seconds and then the dialog will finally show up. This kind of graphics performance is completely unacceptable.
3) The desktop sidebar thing disappears when you click "Show Desktop", which is dumb.
4) The Rotating Blue Circle of Wait doesn't rotate on my machine anymore and the screen saver doesn't work anymore. This has actually been my biggest complain with all versions of Windows. Things just randomly stop working (or at least stop working quickly) until the whole system sucks and has to be reinstalled. I've never had that problem with OS X, BSD, or Linux.