Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista

M$ wants to re-educate us to better understand Vista rationale and how to make them work for you. The five things MS claimed we all misunderstood are:

1. User Account Control (UAC)
2. Image Management
3. Display Driver Model
4. Windows Search
5. 64 bit architecture

Read it, learn to love Vista then speed up its adoption in your enterprise - says M$

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Responses:
1: Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users'

2: I'm not sure how to respond. I haven't used the tool, but it appears to be network installation support, so I guess that's a good thing. Installing a Ghost image is faster than an installer, though.

3: Graphics are arguably the most resource intensive requirement of modern PCs. Switching between Kernel mode and User mode is one of the most expensive CPU operations. Let's divvy up said graphics between such a costly barrier. Brilliant! In all seriousness, they traded performance for stability. I'm not sure I would have made the same move.

4: A case of Google feeling threatened by Microsoft. Kinda made Google look like a crybaby, if you ask me.

5: 64-bit won't take off until we get decent driver support. That won't happen until 64-bit takes off. Not that Microsoft's stance on driver signing helps matters.

Good points, Razor.

I want to comment on UAC:

"If you are logged in as an administrator on your personal workstation, you'll see a consent
prompt each time you go to exercise a task that requires administrator privileges."

Simply deleting a folder full of junk that I don't want requires adminstrator rights?

It makes sense that UAC was created, as Razor's link pointed out, to annoy users. A friend of mine had UAC enabled and he got 250 viruses. He was using a bad AV program at the beginning I might add (I forget which one). What I'm saying is that UAC is pointless as far as trying to make Windows Vista "more secure." Not once did UAC warn my friend about any programs needing his permission to continue. IOW, all of those viruses were somehow bypassing UAC.

As for all the other points made in this article, I agree 100% with Razor. For some reason, I felt like a kid again reading this article!

It kinda makes me hate Vista all the more! LOL.

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How about microsoft learn a few things instead of telling us to learn a few things.

How about giving us the option to turn off automatic WHQL driver installations in Vista. There is nothing more annoying then to uninstall a driver, reboot the system and then find out Vista is automaticlly installing its defualt WHQL drivers for that device without your interaction.

I don't know how many times I had to uninstall a driver, reboot and then see Vista automaticly installing the WHQL defualt driver, and then having to uninstall Vista's WHQL defualt driver that it just installed from the device manager, just so I can install the vendors driver from the 3rd party website.

"How about microsoft learn a few things instead of telling us to learn a few things.
How about giving us the option to turn off automatic WHQL driver installations in Vista. There is nothing more annoying then to uninstall a driver, reboot the system and then find out Vista is automaticlly installing its defualt WHQL drivers for that device without your interaction.

I don't know how many times I had to uninstall a driver, reboot and then see Vista automaticly installing the WHQL defualt driver, and then having to uninstall Vista's WHQL defualt driver that it just installed from the device manager, just so I can install the vendors driver from the 3rd party website."

Wow that says it all! You hit the nail on the head, Cobra. I agree 100%.

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Updated: M$ article entitled Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista no longer is downloadable at M$ site. I guess it must have embarrassed Redmond. Read the story below for more details.

http://www.computerworld.com/action...

EDIT

Personally I love the internet especially when an article or blog turns out to be something You see Then You no longer see.

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Wow, that's another twist.

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