Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

the major selling points of vista are

1 - the aero interface - after you've shown everyone and their dog that you can have translucent windows and a gadget bar for the tenth time and actually start using the machine then this ceases to be the selling point it was

2 - increased security - if the increased security does it's job you shouldn't even notice it, instead you are bombarded with popups asking if this is really you doing this, and if you manage to turn off the popups half your applications stop working because they expect the UAC to be enabled

3 - DRM - this gives the end user absolutely nothing but is a major selling point for the recording industry, so here's an idea why don't the recording industry guys pay for it ?

then add in all the device drivers that have had to be rewritten to cope with the redesign and are full of bugs or just aren't available because the device manufacturers haven't paid microsoft the license fees yet, all the major software packages that currently don't work and the case for using vista without a major IT spend above and beyond the spend for the vista licenses gets pretty thin