{"id":162,"date":"2008-05-26T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-05-26T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T18:14:49","slug":"a-business-as-usual-view-of-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2008\/05\/26\/a-business-as-usual-view-of-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"a business as usual view of Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:557,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tech.slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=08\\\/05\\\/28\\\/0315244&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110124031233\\\/http:\\\/\\\/tech.slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=08\\\/05\\\/28\\\/0315244&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-01 08:08:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 02:55:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-28 01:20:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 17:42:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 16:37:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-27 09:59:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 21:24:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 12:25:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 00:25:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 07:39:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:50:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:50:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just read another blog post bemoaning Vista, with a commenter saying they would never use Vista. If you haven&#8217;t read posts and stories like that, you probably don&#8217;t need to read this perspective.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is traditional and usually judicious to be leery at first when Microsoft releases a new version of Windows (or any software supplier releases a new major version of any piece of software). Even Windows 3 (3.1?)\u00a0wasn&#8217;t really ready until Windows 3.1 (3.11?) Windows 98 might have been OK the first time out, but making it so was a big priority at Microsoft. NT4, Windows 2000 and Windows XP all needed at least one service pack before I was ready to trust them. (NT 3.1 and 3.5 were somewhat different in that they weren&#8217;t really intended for regular end users. Windows ME was a disaster, from many\u00a0perspectives, and\u00a0doesn&#8217;t fit\u00a0in this context.)<\/p>\n<p>So I barely touched Vista last year. Now Vista SP1 is the norm. From my recent experience, Vista SP1 is certainly not terrible, and seems to have noticeable security improvements over XP.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks I needed to purchase a new computer for my church library. After shopping around online and visting Fry&#8217;s a couple of times, the best hardware bang for the buck seemed to be a Compaq SR5410F at Circuit City. That machine came only with Vista SP1. Some of the other possibilities were available with XP, but it seemed time to give Vista a chance.<\/p>\n<p>So far, everyone who has used this machine, seems quite happy with it (myself included).<\/p>\n<p>All of the escalation of privilege dialogs to do administrative things are understandably annoying, but most of them seem sensible. The question is not &#8220;Why is Microsoft forcing this on users?&#8221; but rather &#8220;Why did Microsoft take so long to follow the lead of other operating systems in this regard?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I could do without the &#8220;Aero&#8221; 3D dialog eye-candy, but I&#8217;ve felt that way about most of\u00a0analogous stuff in many prior editions of Windows, Mac OS, and the prominent X-Windows managers.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest frustrations are with ancient applications that don&#8217;t work with Vista, but the frustration is best placed with the vendors who sell those applications. The most annoying instance is from a vendor whose site only mentions Windows 9X and NT, while still selling support subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The only other problem that comes to mind is that TightVNC doesn&#8217;t work with Vista yet. But UltraVNC mostly does work with Vista. The only problem I&#8217;ve noticed with UltraVNC is that the option to turn off Aero is unreliable. When Aero crops up remotely, frequent screen refreshes are necessary. Not a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I probably wouldn&#8217;t want Vista on older hardware, but on new hardware it seems to make sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>May 28:<\/em><\/strong> Slashdot seemingly soothes some more of the Vista uproar in <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/05\/28\/0315244\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 7 Won&#8217;t Have Compact &#8220;MinWin&#8221; Kernel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I still own shares of MSFT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read another blog post bemoaning Vista, with a commenter saying they would never use Vista. 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