Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

the basic function of an OS is to efficiently put the resources of the machine at your disposal with as little overhead cost as possible, now ok for a GUI OS the overhead is rather high but the basic premise still stands

Vista seems to built with no thought to this whatsoever, everything is "hidden", everything is "protected", the user is assumed to be a) a numpty and b) a thief and the OS has been designed with these concepts paramount, "control the machine" is way down the list "control the user" is right at the top

pop ups that ask "are you sure ?" and "is this really you doing this ?" are a step back to that damned annoying paperclip assistant thing in office

we are not children if we are installing software then thats us doing it, put the warnings somewhere useful like when they are triggered by some code on a webpage from a mouse rollover event rather than a click not from when I run an install program from a CD

building DRM in from the ground up is just kowtowing to the RIAA and is more of a hindrance to the end user who just wants a backup of their expensive premium content than it is an effective deterrent for the pirate who has the money and resources to rip it off and mass produce it as if the DRM weren't there anyway

when the dark day dawns that my current PC dies and has to be replaced I'm getting a barebones machine and sticking some flavour of Unix on it, this Vista debacle has just spoiled it for me and Microsoft