I swear, sometimes I feel some people love vista more than their mother. It's like we have to say vista is perfect and wonderful or those ppl get offended.
To me, vista is not really a bad product. Lack of driver and compatibility is nothing new with brand spanking new OS'es. It's just not big of an improvement or technological advancement over XP other than eye candy. But what I have problem with is the approach and MS's mentality with vista.
1. Acting like a big brother with the digital right management. How is that a operating system's job to tell me what I can or cannot do with my multi media applications on the hardware I spent my hard earn money on?
2. Protecting their profit at the expense of my time and effort through all these activation scheme. I bought a legal copy of vista, my effort to comply with the Law should stop there. Why do I have to activate, reacitve when I update simple thing like memory just so MS can make a few more billions.
3. Putting more and more "features" and force me to use it. I don't need indexing, that's why I don't have google desktop installed. Why does Vista go and index everything I have on my pc wasting my time and my pc's resource. And don't tell me I can disable that. Why should I have to disable it, why can't I only install/enable the feature when I need to.
4. Single handedly remove support for standards like directsound3d. Yeah, great, millions of ppl spend hundreds of dollars to buy sound cards and sound systems to enjoy those sound effects in games, and MS take it away just like that without any consideration.
To me, MS is drunk with power. They make lots of money and they direct where the technology go. So they feel like they can do things and force things on people and all those "features" in vista just proof that.
To me, vista is not really a bad product. Lack of driver and compatibility is nothing new with brand spanking new OS'es. It's just not big of an improvement or technological advancement over XP other than eye candy. But what I have problem with is the approach and MS's mentality with vista.
1. Acting like a big brother with the digital right management. How is that a operating system's job to tell me what I can or cannot do with my multi media applications on the hardware I spent my hard earn money on?
2. Protecting their profit at the expense of my time and effort through all these activation scheme. I bought a legal copy of vista, my effort to comply with the Law should stop there. Why do I have to activate, reacitve when I update simple thing like memory just so MS can make a few more billions.
3. Putting more and more "features" and force me to use it. I don't need indexing, that's why I don't have google desktop installed. Why does Vista go and index everything I have on my pc wasting my time and my pc's resource. And don't tell me I can disable that. Why should I have to disable it, why can't I only install/enable the feature when I need to.
4. Single handedly remove support for standards like directsound3d. Yeah, great, millions of ppl spend hundreds of dollars to buy sound cards and sound systems to enjoy those sound effects in games, and MS take it away just like that without any consideration.
To me, MS is drunk with power. They make lots of money and they direct where the technology go. So they feel like they can do things and force things on people and all those "features" in vista just proof that.