Re: Experiences with VISTA

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/17/07, Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I reluctantly have to agree. I have a Linux box at home. I telecommute
> part-time, and I originally set it up as my Internet gateway and
> firewall (IPTables/NetFilter is great). I also have W2K. I'm attempting
> to do my interactive work on the Linux box, just to see if I can. The X
> graphical display is inferior to Windows. If there's a graphical FTP
> client available as good as WS_FTP I haven't found it, and I've looked.
> The best I've been able to do is VirgoFTP. Compare PhotoShop with GIMP.
> One's free, the other not, but still... Even web browsers, don't render
> as well on Linux as on Windows (same browsers, same versions, but on
> Linux they must use X). Acrobat reader has the same issue. There is
> nothing like HTMLKit, or CSE validator available for Linux, although I
> do have the W3C validator running locally with a batch front end so I
> can do a whole site at a time. That's kinda cool. There are office
> compatible Word and Excel clones, but they're not 100%, and
> consequently, not good enough to exchange documents with my co-workers.

not to mention the programability of MSFT products is world class.
Vista is spectacular looking on a flat panel monitor.  With Vista,
editing code in Visual Studio is a pleasure simply because the text
characters display so well.   I still have doubts about Vista - user
account control and security in general from a useability standpoint -
I think MSFT has missed the mark there.

For what, $400 per year, you can stay current on all the MSFT software
on your desktop.  That is a great deal considering the resulting
increased productivity.

Linux might be evolving into a collection of non cooperating,
eventually non compatible fiefdoms:
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/17/0219225.shtml

What with IBM involved, with its reputation as a company that will
price gouge its most loyal customers, I am less wary of getting on the
Windows bandwagon than I am of Linux.

-Steve