Kommentarer til: Why Vista isn’t coming near my computers

Av: Jonas Mamre

Jonas Mamre — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:20:38 +0000

Yeah im running vista right now, its ok, but has its downsides.

It does not have alot of support for programs yet, and all the new visuals, i had in xp from 3rd party programs.

What concerns me is the required driver signing, which means that no individual can make a driver for a hardware product. It is only allowed for the big corporations and it costs alot of money to do so.

I think vista is gonna be great, but it has a long way to go. When games run direct x 10 its gonna be awesome, and hopefully the os will support more programs and be more bug-free.

Av: Håvard Pedersen

Håvard Pedersen — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:55:11 +0000

Uh… The blog uses standard HTML and has nothing to do with how your scrollwheel works. It might be that your browser is one that doesn’t handle fixed background images very well, but that’s not my faul.

Please replace your browser with something better. :)

Av: sadad

sadad — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:01:48 +0000

your blog doesnt scroll using the scroll wheel properly. It feels like i am browsing thru molassas. please replace this blog with something better.

Av: Håvard Pedersen

Håvard Pedersen — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:58:37 +0000

1. As I said, the local indexed search functionality has been available since Windows 2000. It's called Indexing Service and is disabled by default. If you enable it, it works just like the search in Windows Vista (though with the old-school interface). 64-bit XP has been out for years, and noone has bothered to support it, so I can't see why Vista should be different. 2. It's not about never copying anything. But when *everything* "new" in the OS is copied, it just seems like a waste of time. 4. Completely wrong. The DRM scheme itself is there because the movies comes with them, sure. But the Protected Video Path is Microsofts own invention that lives on top of DRM and that is what's destroying your out-signal if it doesn't like your setup. It is not required for playing back DRM protected content. It's just there for bending over to MPAA and neglecting the users right to choose how to play back their content. 5. The governments harassed them, not the users. I have never heard a single Windows user (except Linux geeks that occasionally boot into Windows) complain about getting a free browser and mediaplayer with their operating system. Their closest commercial competitor, Apple, prices their OS at under half the price, with *all* features enabled.

Av: Ronny

Ronny — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:56:06 +0000

1. Actually, the new search in Vista is vastly superior to that in Win2K. (And just like Apple’s Spotlight, it also searches inside documents and emails)
DX10 games is a reality in the (near) future, wheter or not you want it to be. 64 bit support requires more effort from driver developers, not MS, but I agree that the current support is sorely lacking.

2. Because Apple and Linux never copies anything? OK, Apple has been pretty inventive at times, but most features in OSS is copied blatantly from Win/Apple.

3. I agree that UAC is a bit eager, but once your system is up and running, you shouldn’t have to encounter it so very often.

4. Actually, the only way to view a DRM’ed film from BlueRay or HD DVD on a computer is via Vista’s built in DRM. This isn’t something that MS has made up just for your inconvenience. Sure, you can remove the DRM and watch it in XP, Linux, and OS X. But this also goes for Vista. The DRM is there to make it possible to watch «protected» content, not to stop you from watching unprotected content.

5. MS is harassed (ie sued) for giving you «to many» features for free in Win XP, and when they decide to make things a little bit more optional by offering several packages with incremental featureset, they get blamed for this too. Actually, I suppose Vista Business is the best edition to compare to Win XP Professional.