Comment Just a short notice (Score 0, Troll) 378
I've been following the development of this whole "Vista"-thing, especially the opinions of people and the features it has. Now, here are some of the things I've noticed:
Positive
a) Apparently, Microsoft is actually making an effort to make this a release of their OS that is reliable.
6 points for effort, results remain to be seen.
b) The UI looks nice, stylish.
4 points for design.
c) They've added features (on the UI) that remind me of WMs available to Linux / Unix.
9 points for looking at a user's community and taking out some of the good elements.
Total: 19 positive points
Negative
a) They're not doing anything special. It's not like I'm getting really excited about this release or anything because it's basically just WinXP with elements thrown in from the Linux community.
-4 points for sucking at originality.
b) Microsoft is trying to get credit for things they did not come up with. Come on, I mean, the whole security system? That has been around on Unix-like operating systems since the dawn of ages. Linux and Unix users alike have been securing their systems like this back when Microsoft employees were still trying to make fire with sticks!
-12 points for being retards, falling behind and bragging once they start catching up.
c) Up til now, I haven't really heard of anyone really running it and thinking "Wow, this is a system that is totally filling my needs!". All I hear / read is that people get it up and running (after a painful process that includes stabwounds to the mouth. But let's put that aside for a second) and then "get used" to it. Even experienced users have to adjust in ways they never wanted. Now, that's not a good thing when you're marketing a subsequent release of a product. And all they do to help you? Dazzle you with a thousand glittering sparkles on the desktop.
Sorry, -10 points for forcing people (again) to live in Microsoft's own little world.
Total -26
Which basically totals to a score of -7. That's not too bad, but do realize that I haven't even touched the surface on this. There are more things that I like, and things I (already) dislike about this release of Windows. Sorry Bill, I'll just stick with my sexy FreeBSD release here. It's been kicking your ass since 1993 (at least) and it probably will for the coming seventeen millenia.
SuperJim, the pantsless superhero in search of lost binaries, signing off!
Positive
a) Apparently, Microsoft is actually making an effort to make this a release of their OS that is reliable.
6 points for effort, results remain to be seen.
b) The UI looks nice, stylish.
4 points for design.
c) They've added features (on the UI) that remind me of WMs available to Linux / Unix.
9 points for looking at a user's community and taking out some of the good elements.
Total: 19 positive points
Negative
a) They're not doing anything special. It's not like I'm getting really excited about this release or anything because it's basically just WinXP with elements thrown in from the Linux community.
-4 points for sucking at originality.
b) Microsoft is trying to get credit for things they did not come up with. Come on, I mean, the whole security system? That has been around on Unix-like operating systems since the dawn of ages. Linux and Unix users alike have been securing their systems like this back when Microsoft employees were still trying to make fire with sticks!
-12 points for being retards, falling behind and bragging once they start catching up.
c) Up til now, I haven't really heard of anyone really running it and thinking "Wow, this is a system that is totally filling my needs!". All I hear / read is that people get it up and running (after a painful process that includes stabwounds to the mouth. But let's put that aside for a second) and then "get used" to it. Even experienced users have to adjust in ways they never wanted. Now, that's not a good thing when you're marketing a subsequent release of a product. And all they do to help you? Dazzle you with a thousand glittering sparkles on the desktop.
Sorry, -10 points for forcing people (again) to live in Microsoft's own little world.
Total -26
Which basically totals to a score of -7. That's not too bad, but do realize that I haven't even touched the surface on this. There are more things that I like, and things I (already) dislike about this release of Windows. Sorry Bill, I'll just stick with my sexy FreeBSD release here. It's been kicking your ass since 1993 (at least) and it probably will for the coming seventeen millenia.
SuperJim, the pantsless superhero in search of lost binaries, signing off!
