VISTA on pre-order..

[Daz]

...unless you prefer to keep your hands on the keyboard.

Being a shell monkey, I sympathise with Mark. Not that it bothers me in Office 2007 though, I dont do enough funky shizzle to warrant being in the menus all the time (macro/vba stuff for example).

[Robert]

Originally Posted by Daz

I've been running Vista Business and Office 2007 for a week or so now. User access control has been switched off already (though I'll put it back on at some point to see if it's annoying me just because I'm poking about everywhere), and it seems to have affected my battery life a little. Could be my imagination but Aero will be using the GPU more so it's not beyond the realms of possibility.

It's too wrapped in cotton wool from a remote support point of view. No useful imformation (to a support desk) is surfaced to the user when things go wrong (VPN and other network connections being the obvious examples), and interfaces like the event viewer have been changed from functional to, based on early impressions anyway, more confused and cluttered interfaces.

It is pretty though. Chugged a bit after the install while it built the search index (I imagine) but running quick enough now it seems (haven't noticed any slow downs), and I do like that unified start menu search thing a great deal (integrated desktop search basically).

I believe the aero interface is rendered entirely by the GPU.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Daz

Being a shell monkey, I sympathise with Mark. Not that it bothers me in Office 2007 though, I dont do enough funky shizzle to warrant being in the menus all the time (macro/vba stuff for example).

I'm most certainly a shell monkey. Why do something in Windows Explorer when the Command Prompt is perfectly good?

Probably comes from my *nix/oldskool computer background.

I don't like it when they force you to use newfangled GUIs, and I like it even less when they decide to rewrite those GUIs just for kicks.

Haven't tried Office 2007 though so I don't know for sure. I did try IE7 - it got uninstalled. I've tried the Vista Betas too (though to be fair, I put them down more because of VMWare slowness than because of the GUI).

[Daz]

Originally Posted by Mark

the Command Prompt is perfectly good?

... after you put UnxUtils in path somewhere

[Mark]

I use cygwin, to the same end.

Anyway, I came here to post this, which adequately demonstrates why I won't be upgrading...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6407419.stm

Yes, I have one of those 'broken' soundcards. I've been looking to upgrade for a while, but though I might get better sound, I'll lose functionality, so not yet. I wonder how many other devices I'll lose as well.

I'm about to (this weekend) upgrade one of my boxen to more-than-Vista capable. Unfortunately for Microsoft, that box will be running Linux.

[Will]

I've read a few articles like that. A few of our clients have ordered Vista running pcs... I'm NOT looking forward to supporting it at the moment. Not at all.

[Feek]

Luddites!

I'm going to be putting together a killer system in a month or so and it'll have Vista on it.

[Will]

When I can afford it I'm getting myself a Mac.

[Mohinder]

Originally Posted by Le Hoff

When I can afford it I'm getting myself a Mac.

An intelligent move

Vista is just MS *starting* to catch up with Mac OS.

[semi-pro waster]

Originally Posted by Le Hoff

When I can afford it I'm getting myself a Mac.

Will you also be getting crayons for all written correspondence to keep it simple?



I am of course only joking, I have nothing against Macs other than a deeply ingrained and irrational prejudice which makes me refuse to have anything to do with any Apple products.