IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista
This is depressing reading. Basic bread and butter stuff which I’d hoped was going to get better in Vista. I had assumed that stuff like this had been sorted out but simply wasn’t being trumpeted around.
I’m struggling to figure out what they’ve spent the last umpteen years actually doing on Vista? Do translucent windows take that long to implement?
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Transparent windows demand newer, faster PCs. They are purposefully making our current computers obsololete. What actual real benefit do they offer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
The brilliant Eben Moglen predicted in 2000 that the ramificatiosn of the antitrust ruling against microsoft would distract them from their actual operations so much that they couldn’t possibly keep up. Cf. the embroglio with the EU, and another round starting up in Comes v. MS.
The File Dialog change is really the only sin on that list, in my uninformed opinion. The others are legit complaints but hard for me to get behind as sins. The file copy sucks, but it sucks no less than the previous versions, apparently. Removing full-text search is a bit bizarre, but I never used it anyway — this is something that the untouchable gods at Google can’t even get right. But of course that File Dialog sounds hellish.
“Transparent windows demand newer, faster PCs.”
I’m fairly sure you can turn all that whiz-bang stuff off.