Comments on: Windows Vista http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/windows_vista/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:49:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: shipmate http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/windows_vista/comment-page-1/#comment-105600 shipmate Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:37:53 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/12/windows_vista/#comment-105600 "Right now the main reason to get Vista is the improved security." You're joking, right? There have already been security issues with Vista. About 10,000 of the 114,000 windows viri affect Vista, as well as adware and spyware. MS didn't start with fresh new code. In order to be backwards compatible they still used a lot of old code, instead of making a clean break to an entirely different OS like Apple did when going from OS9 to the UNIX-based OSX. "Right now the main reason to get Vista is the improved security." You're joking, right? There have already been security issues with Vista. About 10,000 of the 114,000 windows viri affect Vista, as well as adware and spyware. MS didn't start with fresh new code. In order to be backwards compatible they still used a lot of old code, instead of making a clean break to an entirely different OS like Apple did when going from OS9 to the UNIX-based OSX.

]]> By: Buddy http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/windows_vista/comment-page-1/#comment-105545 Buddy Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:40:50 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/12/windows_vista/#comment-105545 When it will be hacked? Too late, for that, thats <a href="http://rcpmag.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=305" rel="nofollow">already happened</a> When it will be hacked? Too late, for that, thats
already happened

]]> By: Steven Taylor http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/windows_vista/comment-page-1/#comment-105541 Steven Taylor Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:22:23 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/12/windows_vista/#comment-105541 Perhaps less the appliance issue than simply the fact that OS's seem to have plateaued in terms of offering really nifty stuff. 3.1 did a lot of stuff one couldn't do with DOS and 95 was truly a whole new world, with 98 being a significant improvement on that new world. ME was worthless, however. XP was nice and I far prefer it to 98, but it was hardly the radical change in daily computing that DOS to 3.1 or 3.1 to 95 represented. To be honest, I have no inkling as to what Vista is supposed to do for me, and I share your basic computer habits and needs, as you well know. Perhaps less the appliance issue than simply the fact that OS's seem to have plateaued in terms of offering really nifty stuff. 3.1 did a lot of stuff one couldn't do with DOS and 95 was truly a whole new world, with 98 being a significant improvement on that new world. ME was worthless, however. XP was nice and I far prefer it to 98, but it was hardly the radical change in daily computing that DOS to 3.1 or 3.1 to 95 represented.

To be honest, I have no inkling as to what Vista is supposed to do for me, and I share your basic computer habits and needs, as you well know.

]]> By: Dave Schuler http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/windows_vista/comment-page-1/#comment-105536 Dave Schuler Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:00:39 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/12/windows_vista/#comment-105536 And with significantly less functionality than was originally promised. Right now the main reason to get Vista is the improved security. Care to start a pool on when it will be hacked? One of the reasons there's a lot less excitement is that the computer industry as a whole has become disconnected from new releases of Windows. When 3.1 (really the first usable Windows version), 95, and 98 were released, there were large surges of new computer purchases each of which gave a boost to the industry as a whole. That surge didn't happen with the release of XP. There were lots of reasons that was true including that many companies had over-invested in computer technology in anticipation of Y2K. The industry has never really recovered. And with significantly less functionality than was originally promised. Right now the main reason to get Vista is the improved security. Care to start a pool on when it will be hacked?

One of the reasons there's a lot less excitement is that the computer industry as a whole has become disconnected from new releases of Windows. When 3.1 (really the first usable Windows version), 95, and 98 were released, there were large surges of new computer purchases each of which gave a boost to the industry as a whole. That surge didn't happen with the release of XP. There were lots of reasons that was true including that many companies had over-invested in computer technology in anticipation of Y2K. The industry has never really recovered.

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