Microsoft should euthanize Vista
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name
A developer for Microsoft, or a Microsoft developer, like me? The tone of the article means the reasons are not that obvious.
Pits fall into Chuck Norris.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G?
I guess the main concern is how much of that ends up in RAM when you boot.
Marc Clifton wrote:
About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location
Yeah, I like that.
Marc Clifton wrote:
Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"!
Like they would care.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
I guess the main concern is how much of that ends up in RAM when you boot.
Vista loads some libraries to make programs start faster. This is why it seems like Vista is eating up all your RAM.
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
I personally wouldn't go back to XP. I have Vista on both my laptop & desktop (both w/ VS2008) and am quite pleased with it.
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I personally wouldn't go back to XP. I have Vista on both my laptop & desktop (both w/ VS2008) and am quite pleased with it.
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I personally wouldn't go back to XP. I have Vista on both my laptop & desktop (both w/ VS2008) and am quite pleased with it.
Me too - and I have bought it for some of my less technical family as well as the savings from less support disasters (I accidentally deleted something from \system32\ because I got an email saying it might be a virus etc) more than pays for the software.
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I personally wouldn't go back to XP. I have Vista on both my laptop & desktop (both w/ VS2008) and am quite pleased with it.
I also like it. I wouldn't dream of going back to anything other than Windows 2003. XP is just plain awful.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G?
Ummm, I care - I don't have a 1TB drive in any of my systems. That (15gb install) is 25% of the available space on your standard corporate Dell PC. The Windows folder on my system at work is 10gb (I'm running the Business edition). I'll check my laptop tonight (Home Premium).
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
i like Vista. all the haters can go soak their heads.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I guess the main concern is how much of that ends up in RAM when you boot.
Vista loads some libraries to make programs start faster. This is why it seems like Vista is eating up all your RAM.
Vista loads about 600 MB for its own stuff and every app it considers you'll use is memory cached (afaik it's a mechanism that learns so will take a while for it to do well while start a new up after it's learned will be as slow as XP or something). So in practice all your memory is used, or almost all but most of it actually decently.
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I personally wouldn't go back to XP. I have Vista on both my laptop & desktop (both w/ VS2008) and am quite pleased with it.
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Vista loads about 600 MB for its own stuff and every app it considers you'll use is memory cached (afaik it's a mechanism that learns so will take a while for it to do well while start a new up after it's learned will be as slow as XP or something). So in practice all your memory is used, or almost all but most of it actually decently.
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
I recently migrated to Vista and I would never go back. I really do not get all the whinning. But, given what I know about human nature I chalk it up to luddite-ism.
“If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”-Alfred P. Sloan
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Marc Clifton wrote:
In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G?
Ummm, I care - I don't have a 1TB drive in any of my systems. That (15gb install) is 25% of the available space on your standard corporate Dell PC. The Windows folder on my system at work is 10gb (I'm running the Business edition). I'll check my laptop tonight (Home Premium).
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
That (15gb install) is 25% of the available space on your standard corporate Dell PC
Do you know this for a fact or are you basing your figures on the standard corporate Dell PC for running XP? I suspect corporations will upgrade their hardware with the o/s in which case the available space will be more like 150GB which means the o/s still only takes 10% which matches XP (approx 6GB install). Entirely reasonable I think.
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
The missing 'up' button in explorer is my biggest gripe with Vista. The up button was sheer genious, it was a big button that you almost could find blind folded. And now when you got a big directory tree (like every dev has), you have to mess around with the address bar, ugh. A nice example of getting too academic about simple matters.
Wout
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Article here[^] It's a rather droll article. I love statements like this: It slows me as a human because it is so hard to use," said a friend of mine, a Microsoft developer who for obvious reasons does not want to be quoted by name. This developer added that his whole team dislikes Vista, which requires about 15 gigabytes of free hard-drive space on a PC, according to the company. In an age where we have terabyte hard drives, WTF (who, not what) cares about 15G? Now, I'm not defending Vista! About the only two things I like about it is that I can click on the file path in the address bar and it takes me to that location, and when I create a folder for a download it automatically opens the folder. But even that has drawbacks. The address bar usage falls apart when I have a narrow window with large folder names, and I can never remember the keystroke for navigating UP one level. (What idiot decided to remove that icon from Explorer?) Anyways, her conversation with an HP salesperson was amusing, but the article itself is rather worthless. Imagine though, if 5 million CP members signed that petition to keep XP alive "indefinitely"! :laugh: Marc
Vista is good - especially the 64-bit edition. We have conditional variables[^] now :jig:
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You can disable the service, but WHY? The cached apps are dumped instantly when running apps need more memory, so it doesn't affect the performance of running applications at all. Disabling it will only slow the startup of new apps.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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You can disable the service, but WHY? The cached apps are dumped instantly when running apps need more memory, so it doesn't affect the performance of running applications at all. Disabling it will only slow the startup of new apps.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
That (15gb install) is 25% of the available space on your standard corporate Dell PC
Do you know this for a fact or are you basing your figures on the standard corporate Dell PC for running XP? I suspect corporations will upgrade their hardware with the o/s in which case the available space will be more like 150GB which means the o/s still only takes 10% which matches XP (approx 6GB install). Entirely reasonable I think.
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Are you trying to tell me that corporations will expect to run the latest o/s on 7 year old hardware?
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