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Vista is an acronym

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Windows Vista is getting a lot of attention these days.  Many bloggers are giving detailed examinations of Microsoft's successor to WIndows XP, but this is not one of them.  I think that Vista stands for something.  Very Irritating Settings Tucked Away.... Virtually Impotent Security That's Annoying.... Vista Is Software To Avoid... and then there is the one I found on the net: Virus Infected Switch To Apple.
Disclaimer... I have not used Vista before today.
Well, I'm not switching to Apple and I'm not saying that Vista is a total piece of crap, yet, but I am going to say that my experience with it today left a nasty taste in my mouth.
I'm setting up the new sales guy's new laptop and it came with Vista on it.  Now I didn't have time to do a proper wipe and install of XP (like the rest of the company) and da boss said to just leave it there...
The OS is so different that it took me 5 minutes to figure out where 'My Computer' is (and it's not called My Computer anymore).  
Trying to make Windows Explorer display in a folder view took 2 people to figure out.  
Every stinkin time I did anything I was asked "Is this allowed?" by the wonderful new security scheme.  Annoying prompts does not true security make...boy the Apple commercials were right on.  
I went to install the 'Vista and Office 2007' CRM 3.0 addin for Outlook and it would not even run correctly.  
I went to modify the hosts file and it said that I did not have access... oh did I fail to mention that I'm a Domain Administrator AND listed in the local Admin group?  How much more access do I need to have?  There isn't a higher level of access on a Windows Domain!  The real kicker was when I moved the hosts file to my desktop, edited it and moved it back to the System32 folder... looks like the security guy in dark glasses missed that one.  
Oh, and the 'Documents and Settings' folder (where all the user data is stored) is now called "Users".  I wonder how many programs are going to break because of that 'little' change.  I remember when they changed it to 'Documents and Settings'... geesh.  They should have left that one alone.
Dealing with Vista took what is a simple task (setting up some programs on a laptop for a salesman to use) and made it an ordeal.  It looks fantastic, but my productivity fell through the floor when trying to get anything done on it.
"You are coming to a sad realization, cancel or allow?... Allow."

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