Reasons I dislike Windows XP

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Doesn't that seem odd that Windows power users effectively turn off half of Windows as soon as they install it? Is it just me or did MS get pretty near half of their operating system wrong?

Does anyone else feel like the OS itself is talking down to you, but then making some concepts so unintuitive that you have to be a genius to make them work (Mentalist's .bat file, Col. Kira's Left Tit's service slashings, etc.)? To turn off services at startup you have to type msconfig.exe in the run line, who's going to just "figure that out" one day on their own?

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. It's sort of an AOL-like effect, exchanging things that actually work and are useful for "pretty" and "easy". The average user doesn't know any better, doesn't want to know any better, they just want to be able to access their email and teh intarwebs. Hilarity ensues (unless you're the one who has to fix their messes).

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So kick some major fucking ass, Vista. You owe it to the world. We've had to put up with your shit for too long for you to not rock the ever-loving shit out of my machine with your new hotness.

That'd be nice, but I wouldn't count on it.

So, I should wait to buy my new computer till Vista comes out? And when is that exactly?

Sometime this summer, allegedly, probably around September. I wouldn't bother waiting for Vista to upgrade machines. XP is at least mostly stable now, and I'm sure Vista will require a series of service packs to patch all the bugs and security holes. Just a guess on that, but history's on my side.

A good rule of thumb with Microsoft products is to let the general public beta test them for six months before you bother installing/upgrading yourself, unless you're feeling adventurous.

 

[Ishcabittle]

Well, ironically enough, I just took and passed my Microsoft MCDST certification exams yesterday, so I'm all Microsoft certified and shit.

Not to nitpick, but I even noticed that the Microsoft exam software ran poorly and inefficiently compared to the Apple Certification exam software. When you finish, there's a seven minute wait looking at a blank screen while it complies your results. Scary seven minutes (*please don't crash, please don't crash, please don't crash*). Not only that, but there was an error with the printer so they couldn't print out my score results. They said they'd fax 'em to me.

Ho hum. Life's funny, innit?

 

[WordInterrupted]

To turn off services at startup you have to type msconfig.exe in the run line,

Wow, that's a neat trick! I should visit this forum more often.

 

[RobL]

Well, ironically enough, I just took and passed my Microsoft MCDST certification exams yesterday, so I'm all Microsoft certified and shit.

Not to nitpick, but I even noticed that the Microsoft exam software ran poorly and inefficiently compared to the Apple Certification exam software. When you finish, there's a seven minute wait looking at a blank screen while it complies your results. Scary seven minutes (*please don't crash, please don't crash, please don't crash*). Not only that, but there was an error with the printer so they couldn't print out my score results. They said they'd fax 'em to me.

Ho hum. Life's funny, innit?

You should have offered to fix it, being all certified and all.

(joke)