The Illusions of Windows Vista

[ImUrOBGYN]

How would you feel if I came into your garage and offered to sell you back all that you had stored?

 

http://pcpitstop.com/news/rob/rcheng0704.asp

http://www.pcpitstop.com/news/dave/2007-04.asp

[dragknee66]

i have refused to help people with their new vista machines.. even my familys new machine.

Vista ftl. At this rate, my next machine will be a Mac - with less headaches.

[HAOLE]

I just got a new laptop yesterday with vista on it. I am not impressed so far.....

[cptn janks]

linux > windoze

[Nate1647545505]

linux > windoze

 

Server 2003 with tuning > RH L% Ent, SuSE

 

Just take NYSE and the LSE word for it.

 

EDIT:

 

The articles throw around VSS. VSS is a hook. Microsoft has never had a utility other then NTBACKUP in 2K3 that utilizes VSS. Any System Engineer/Admin knows that NTBACKUP is something you use a fail safe, not an alternative to a backup strategy.

 

As stated, there's no compression done on Vista images. That's not the worst thing in the world considering they have the ground works for snapshot/image based technology. Anyone out there that has had the pleasures of using NTBACKUP would give their first born for uncompressed image based backup.

 

If there wasn't the option to turn it off, I'd understand why people are so up in arms. Otherwise, turn it off, buy the product of your choice that will use MS's VSS hook, or if that fails, a proprietary one.

[Supplicium]

Bought a new laptop with Vista on it, Used it for a week then I got fed up! Threw XP Pro and Gentoo Linux on there and called it the day. I use Linux more anyways.

 

Nate: That might be true but any Linux Server distro setup correctly and tuned correctly is 100 times better than any tuned 2003 box. 2003 was alot better than 2000 server though.

[Nitrousbird]

I like Vista. Doesn't need nearly the heavy-duty PC everyone thinks it does. I'm running Ultimate on a less than stellar machine with good results.

[87GT]

I run Win 2k server, XP Pro, and Mac OS X on my IBM boxes. Don't need stinking Vista!

[Nate1647545505]

Bought a new laptop with Vista on it, Used it for a week then I got fed up! Threw XP Pro and Gentoo Linux on there and called it the day. I use Linux more anyways.

 

Nate: That might be true but any Linux Server distro setup correctly and tuned correctly is 100 times better than any tuned 2003 box. 2003 was alot better than 2000 server though.

 

I would say comparable, but if company X has the $, the resources (hardware), and the time - we've seen hugeeeeeeeeeeeee gains on the 2K3 vs RH / SuSE / BSD systems.

 

I'm not going to argue about TCO and how much of resource hog M$ can be, though.

[JaSSon]

What is Gentoo?

[TTQ B4U]

I'm a simple guy.....Windows XP has been running perfectly on all my systems. With no real compelling reason for me to change and mess with my world, I'm leaving well enough alone.

[l36tols1]

I'm a simple guy.....Windows XP has been running perfectly on all my systems. With no real compelling reason for me to change and mess with my world, I'm leaving well enough alone.

 

+1

[thorne]

Just finished with the article. Shady copy sounds like a more annoying verison of VMS's File Revisiions.

 

I know personaly i hate it when family member screw shit up and restore points have saved my ass more then once. If this is just super restore points cool. helps the stupid users. For those paranoid I'm sure there will be a tweakui tool to delete the Shadowed files.

UNIX BASED oS FOR SERVERS internet facing.

 

windows for internal domain controllers

 

 

vista on my desktop. I do have to say there are some things that have pissed me off. like no drivers for my wifes photoprinter. But I dunno i like it.