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friday, August 17th
PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback today chose to express his frustration with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system as he passed down the publication's leadership to his successor, Lance Ulanoff. Louderback said he is tired of Vista's broken features, and that he may even switch to Linux moving forward. "The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly," Louderback wrote. The former editor-in-chief, who is assuming a position as CEO of a company called Revision3 to experience a change in scenery, lists numerous buggy features in Vista which include sleep mode, unreliable networking, and general slugishness when compared to the older Windows XP in many areas.
"I could go on and on about the lack of drivers, the bizarre wake-up rituals, the strange and nonreproducible system quirks, and more. But I won't bore you with the details," Louderback said.
"The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/08/...g.chief.vista/
Take sleep mode, for example. Vista promised a new low-power sleep mode that would save energy yet enable nearly instantaneous resume. Poppycock. The brand-new dual-core system I built a few months ago totters off to sleep but never returns. I have to cold-start it to bring it back. This after replacing virtually every driver inside. It's gotten so bad that I've actually nicknamed it Chip Van Winkle. And I've nicknamed my primary Dell notebook Philip Marlowe.
But it's not just the long sleep. My home notebook acts as if it comes from Starbucks rather than HP. It used to snooze—but now, after a recent Vista update, it never goes to sleep at all. Its new nickname: Compuccino
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2171472,00.asp
I just wish game developers wont forcefeed us that horrible thing with vista only games. Last I heard even crysis is going to be vista only. I wonder if microsoft is doing damage on game industry with crappy moves like this.
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And as cream of the cake I just have to mention halo 2 on vista. Apparently if you are forced to reactive vista (because it breaks down or somthing) you have to reactive halo 2 also. You have to call somone to ask permission to play your own game, after the operation system *they* made crashed forcing you to reactive it. Imagine how fun it would be if youd had like 10-20 games like halo 2 and the os goes the way of the dodo bird and you have to call somone from india to get it all back. Sounds like stuff from nightmares etc.</rant>
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