Peter--
Nobody's whining. It's more that we're saying surveys show a lot less
migration to Vista than MSFT was projecting. I am hearing that Vista needs
to be delayed (I have said this for a good while) from MVPs, from developers
who are in the TAP Program as recently as yesterday afternoon over RC1 and
from several people *at MSFT Redmond.
They are having their butts rushed off.
People do not all criticize Windows Vista because lol their life is a
negative. A lot of people were led to believe this was going to be a
paradigm shift and inspired that it would be Jim Allchin's last official
hurrah with Windows after a career that has done as much to influence
computers on the planet as anyone's. We want it to be much better. We want
it not to be rushed.
We know that ideas are good but execution doesn't come across. Automatic
Restart does not work a lotof the time. Win RE is a nice idea, but in fact,
it is not successful much of the time, and a Repair Install in Windows XP is
successful 100% of the time unless 1) you have systemic partition damage 2)
you have a situation that keeps you from a repair install setup like a multi
boot or dual boot with Linux bootloaders like Lilo or Grub on board.
Drivers, shmivers--they're not in consideration here. Half the people who
say drivers don't work don't know tricks for getting them in. I remember a
bunch of Sound Blaster execs who were TBTs saying to me that I couldn't get
in my sound driver--and when I showed them the tricks toward doing it (the
same was said dogmatically on this group) they were very quiet. It works
great. How old is it? Turtle Beach vintage Windows ME in 2000. It's no
longer in existence on their site--they've moved on. But I haven't. I like
the sound.
MSFT has been asking for Black Hat's help for years. It's Windows with IE;
there are always going to be exploits. UAC will make it somewhat safer. But
there will be hacks and I truly believe that although the hack written about
is done only when someone is running as admin, that a lot of people will be
turning UAC off out of frustation. The mainstream users are not a lot of
the people posting on this group right now--they're the ones we helped with
XP for years.
When a book or movie is critiqued by the NY Times Book Review or movie
critique, a relative inside the movie cast is not considered an objective
source. So you have a relative who works at MSFT Canada who says 5472 is a
big advance. LOL. That's hardly objective. That means you have a relative
that is a cheerleader in a polyana fashion. I've been listening to the
Vista is Way Cool Like (Valley Girl lilt) from the softies for a year. That
does not fly. Let's take ATI, NVidia and 3rd party completely off the
table. They aren't even part of the equation that says Vista needs 3-5 more
months into mid 2007. Let's take Paul Thurott who is a very proficient
Windows and Office user and has them well in perspective out of your
picture.
An MVP who has written Vista Inside Out and presold 900,000 plus copies
already (not due until December) has agreed it needs a ton of work that
cannot be completed by the projected tentative tenuous RTM date.
It's popular to diss Paul Thurott at times ( a lot of Beta testers who must
have Stockholm syndrome or figure that doing that helps to brownose
somebody), but Thurott is spot on.
Ed Bott is certainly an expert Peter. A number of MVPs are experts and they
say the same thing. Robert You don't plan to displace him before December
and author MSFT Press Vista Inside Out do you? Robert McLaws is a very
qualified developer and he says much the same as Thurrott. Robert Scoble is
a VB MVP who worked at MSFT until 2 weeks ago, as did his wife with MSDN,
because he got a better offer, and he is not only far and away their most
famoust blogger evangelist, he is the only blogger from there that has been
written up in every major news media in the country. Scoble says much the
same.
McLaws is right on Windows Vista ship date
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/07/31/mclaws-is-right-on-windows-vista-ship-date/
The Article I Didn't Want to Write
http://www.longhornblogs.com/
July 31, 2006 - 4:44 pm
Robert's Right; Vista Needs More Time
http://www.edbott.com/weblog/
I have TAP friends I looked at the build they got yesterday who are glad to
give me the DVD to put on my box. I'm looking at the latest build, and I've
followed all of them and drilled them. I've read every existing Vista book
that is out now (but found not much in them at all I hadn't already
learned), followed all the MSDN material and Technet material, and I'm here
to tell you that neither 5472 nor so-called RC1
5487 Released to TAP Testers vista_5487.0.060726-1810 on Wednesday August 2,
2006 is any way shape or form a big improvement. It is a little faster.
The explorer and IE shell still can break. Help is very incomplete. Device
manager absolutely cannot tell you the health of a driver. It never was
going to since Windows 95.
SFC System File Checker aka Windows File Protection does not have working
switches that replace files.
They are never going to fix VSS restore points to stay on a dual boot and
they could.
I am glad you're enjoying Vista. After all, that is in the end the idea.
CH
