I’ve been running vista in its pre-release for 2 months straight with absolutely, absolutely, no problems, or ‘fallback mode’ or any of the other assumptive flaws claimed here. Why? because I know how to use windows.

The dx9 interface is beautiful, fast, and keeps my cpu at 0% at all times. I love it.

I recommend reading up on the basic features vista has to offer, using the os for more than 3 minutes, and hell even reading the minimum requirements for the os. Maybe also focusing on the myriad of new features vista provides outside of UI.

Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista

Everything you said here was wrong.

Windows is not cheap, MS is a wealthy company. Why should we accept sloppy workmanship from them? Only because of their market dominance.

Wow.. a newbie. :)

Atari 400 — 1982, later models to follow
Heathkit HERO — sometime around then

Even programmers want look and feel, but a few things to note:

* autoplay is not WMP’s realm, it’s true. Perhaps they should have forwarded you toward the shell folks.
* even long-time developers want something pretty to look at, sometimes. Sometimes it’s an easy-on-the-eyes font like Consolas. Sometimes it’s UI changes that make features more discoverable (I never knew Word had a translation feature until the 2007 beta). Sometimes it’s the search and the sidebar. Vista’s been great to me so far. I’ll be stocking up at release.
* nit-picking is valuable as a means to an end, but is not valuable as an end to itself. Better are suggestions for how to improve. Sure, you can tell programmers you don’t like their UI, but you need to be prepared to tell them what would make it better for you, and be prepared also to discover that 50 other people told them the exact opposite. You can tell them something’s 1 pixel off, but be prepared to have them ignore it in lieu of other, more important changes.

Microsoft has to serve countless people, only a few of which are vocal about anything, and it needs to balance their often-conflicting requests, as well as the need to just ship the bloody thing.

You woldn’t care less? The whole point isn’t just to have a pretty UI, but the “feel” part is extremely important. Have some sort of consistency across applications. Sure OS X is not perfect, but it doesn’t feel like Vista does, which is that the apps are all over the place when it comes to UI. It doesn’t look and feel like you’re running a unified operating system. You step from one world to a different one when ou run another application in Vista. It’s a dog’s breakfast.

Bad UI in OS X – Spotlight:
http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2005/08/bad-ui-in-os-x-spotlight.html

Exactly, but people like Chris, don’t use computers for important things, just IM and post rants and looking for boring tiny flaws in the Windows UI everyday. YAWN!

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Sir,

You cannot define” important” for the whole computer user group.
My Personal Computer is important to me for my own interests and
when it does not work right for whatever reason, it interrupts the seamless flow of creativity and usability that I expect from my PC.

I have been reading Chris since he appeared on the Internet and even though I don’t always agree with everything he has ever said, I do respect the man for his opinions and knowledge. Then I take what he says and go deeper into the subject to formulate my own opinion.

I have been running computers since 1995 and all the computers in my house are still in top running condition and usable. I owe that to men like Chris who have posted to the web to help us all when they could have been doing important stuff with their computers.

M

Exactly, but people like Chris, don’t use computers for important things, just IM and post rants and looking for boring tiny flaws in the Windows UI everyday. YAWN!

LOL

I never cared for the poor opinions of the masses anyway, idiots characterize the majority more than ever before. For me and many others, computers are a means to an end – they are not an end in themselves. I couldn’t care less about UI look and feel, except as it makes getting things done easier. After the novelty of the look and feel wear off, people still need to get work done. Who cares?

The all in the details business is a farce and no IT Manager cares. Usability and beauty are two different things. I personally believe there are too many dialogs in Vista and too many networking options. Collapsible and modal windows would have done a good job of consolidating the confusion that will be associated with this release of windows.

If you are having issues with apps disabling Glass, install the latest test release of JAVA 6. It prevented earlier release of iTunes and LimeWire from doing so.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VistaReliabilityAndMyToleranceForPain.aspx