Comments on: 13 Reasons Why Vista Is Crap http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/2009/07/13-reasons-why-vista-is-crap/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:05:35 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: anthony http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/2009/07/13-reasons-why-vista-is-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-231 anthony Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:44:04 +0000 http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/?p=432#comment-231 "11.Folder Type setting constantly needs resetting" Ain't that the truth. I work in the film industry, so naturally my folders are full of odd bits of video and audio and Vista ALWAYS decides I want to view crap like some row of little stars (!!!!!). No. For over twenty years I've managed just with the name (including extension), the date and time of creation (very important when I have multiple edits of the same sequence) and the size. But no matter how often I tell Vista just to display file names and their attributes, it keeps reverting to 'artist name' and other irrelevances. And MS have managed to break search. It was going downhill in XP (asking if you wanted to search for 'files and folders' or something else - duh, MS, you of all people should know that there are ONLY FILES AND FOLDERS ON A COMPUTER!!!!!), but in Vista it's completely broken, luckily I found 'Agent Rucksack' which is not only much faster, it also allows for multiple filters. In my humble opinion, Windows reached its heights with Win 2000 and they haven't really introduced anything important since. With Vista there are often times that I just drop back to the C:> prompt, it's quicker and MUCH simpler than f**king around with all MS's silly pictures. “11.Folder Type setting constantly needs resetting”

Ain’t that the truth. I work in the film industry, so naturally my folders are full of odd bits of video and audio and Vista ALWAYS decides I want to view crap like some row of little stars (!!!!!).

No. For over twenty years I’ve managed just with the name (including extension), the date and time of creation (very important when I have multiple edits of the same sequence) and the size. But no matter how often I tell Vista just to display file names and their attributes, it keeps reverting to ‘artist name’ and other irrelevances.

And MS have managed to break search. It was going downhill in XP (asking if you wanted to search for ‘files and folders’ or something else – duh, MS, you of all people should know that there are ONLY FILES AND FOLDERS ON A COMPUTER!!!!!), but in Vista it’s completely broken, luckily I found ‘Agent Rucksack’ which is not only much faster, it also allows for multiple filters.

In my humble opinion, Windows reached its heights with Win 2000 and they haven’t really introduced anything important since. With Vista there are often times that I just drop back to the C:> prompt, it’s quicker and MUCH simpler than f**king around with all MS’s silly pictures.

]]> By: Thoughts on User Testing - Synaptic Mishap http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/2009/07/13-reasons-why-vista-is-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Thoughts on User Testing - Synaptic Mishap Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:32:51 +0000 http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/?p=432#comment-229 [...] I’m now left with this uncomfortable feeling of having all my interface foundations taken away and going back to the drawing board. It’s put me significantly behind time. And it’s hard to accept that I’m as capable as Microsoft of making a usability nightmare. Hmmm. Maybe not quite that capable. [...] [...] I’m now left with this uncomfortable feeling of having all my interface foundations taken away and going back to the drawing board. It’s put me significantly behind time. And it’s hard to accept that I’m as capable as Microsoft of making a usability nightmare. Hmmm. Maybe not quite that capable. [...]

]]> By: Anthony Hortin http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/2009/07/13-reasons-why-vista-is-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Anthony Hortin Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:38:03 +0000 http://www.maddisondesigns.com/blog/?p=432#comment-216 Good choice removing Vista Rich! This OS caused no end of problems for me. The only reason I stuck with it rather than going back to XP was that I knew Windows 7 was coming along soon. It was 64bit whereas my XP was only 32bit. Since I had over 4GB's of memory I didn't wan't to waste over 2GB's of it by going back to a 32bit OS. Also, even if I'd managed to get my hands on a copy of XP 64bit, unfortunately there's very limited drivers available for that OS. Thankfully now I'm Vista free, with all my machines are running Win7. Yay! Good choice removing Vista Rich! This OS caused no end of problems for me. The only reason I stuck with it rather than going back to XP was that I knew Windows 7 was coming along soon. It was 64bit whereas my XP was only 32bit. Since I had over 4GB’s of memory I didn’t wan’t to waste over 2GB’s of it by going back to a 32bit OS. Also, even if I’d managed to get my hands on a copy of XP 64bit, unfortunately there’s very limited drivers available for that OS.

Thankfully now I’m Vista free, with all my machines are running Win7. Yay!

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