http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/26/vpns-in-vista-yes-and-onecare-again/ General musings and programming stuff Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:05:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/26/vpns-in-vista-yes-and-onecare-again/#comment-71377 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:42:42 +0000 http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2006/10/26/vpns-in-vista-yes-and-onecare-again/#comment-71377 The list of irritating inconveniences in Vista and its acolytes goes on and on. Vista won't burn DVDs or synch with mobile devices reliably. Its security model is fundamentally broken (denying me access to My Documents whilst allowing any other account access, for instance). Print sharing with XP computers is a nightmare of contradictory security settings and inconsistent behaviour. OneCare is highly intrusive but also ineffectual. Office 2007 has slightly interesting ribbons, but many are illogically arranged and they are not configurable - so the stuff Microsoft imagines Joe Public likes to use (but which I never use) is in the way whilst the stuff I regularly need is hidden away in stupid places. Vista is a disaster of overcomplexity, inadequate testing and a big corporation's hubris for thinking it knows what its consumers want whilst not having any clue whatsoever. I've had to return to XP on every machine but one, which is dual-boot Vista and XP. The list of irritating inconveniences in Vista and its acolytes goes on and on. Vista won’t burn DVDs or synch with mobile devices reliably. Its security model is fundamentally broken (denying me access to My Documents whilst allowing any other account access, for instance). Print sharing with XP computers is a nightmare of contradictory security settings and inconsistent behaviour. OneCare is highly intrusive but also ineffectual. Office 2007 has slightly interesting ribbons, but many are illogically arranged and they are not configurable - so the stuff Microsoft imagines Joe Public likes to use (but which I never use) is in the way whilst the stuff I regularly need is hidden away in stupid places. Vista is a disaster of overcomplexity, inadequate testing and a big corporation’s hubris for thinking it knows what its consumers want whilst not having any clue whatsoever. I’ve had to return to XP on every machine but one, which is dual-boot Vista and XP.

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