[NTLUG:Discuss] Wow, didn't know Vista was this good... it rocks!

[Leroy Tennison]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> Richard Witt wrote:
>> Not that i planned on ever going with Vista...but now im sure i never
>> want to even try it.
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> 
> I tried a couple of the release candidates for Vista.  Mainly, the last 
> two.  Both were, without a doubt, the slowest, most memory hogging 
> pieces of crap I have ever had the experience to use.  I have an old HP 
> 715, 80MHz UNIX box that is faster with its gui than Vista was on a P-4 
> with 2 gigs of ram and a 256meg Radeon video card.  When my wife and I 
> bought the eldest grandchild a laptop for college the first thing I did 
> was clear off Vista and install XP.  That laptop had a dual core 2.66 
> Intel chip, 2 gigs of ram and 512megs on the video.  Vista is the worst 
> thing M$ has done.  It is worse than ME.  That is why I will use XP on 
> the boxes where I have to use M$.
> 

They did say "internal video".  I worked for Microsoft a few years back 
and got to go to a "company meeting".  Don't know if the overall age of 
employees has increased since then but, if it hasn't, it's a young crowd 
and the video was probably meant to appeal to them.  Another idea, maybe 
they know that sales are bad and this was intended to be encouragement. 
  To me it says 'desperation'.

Other things I saw at the company meeting was that it was a pep rally, 
it could have competed with some evangelistic events (when what they 
have to offer certainly isn't worth even a small fraction of that kind 
of zeal).

The final disturbing thing I'll share is that my sense was that the 
overall perspective of employees was low.  Everything Microsoft did was 
wonderful and the greatest thing since sliced bread (Can you imagine 
employees speaking of the registry almost in awe?  I don't have to 
imagine it - I actually heard the comments).  Nothing anyone else did 
even merited mention.

As far as external consumption goes, can you imagine showing that to 
some C-level executive?  If they did then Linux owes them a world of 
thanks.  I used to think that Service Packs were supposed to fix bugs 
and maybe add a small enhancement here and there.  There are a few ways 
to interpret a Service Pack adding that much value and none of the ones 
I can think of positive.