April 21st, 2006 by Jemaleddin Cole
Paul Thurrott, a guy who loves Microsoft deeper than just about anybody says:
What if you’re doing something a bit more complicated? Well, lucky you, the dialogs stack right up, one after the other, in a seemingly never-ending display of stupidity. Indeed, sometimes you’ll find yourself unable to do certain things for no good reason, and you click Allow buttons until you’re blue in the face. It will never stop bothering you, unless you agree to stop your silliness and leave that file on the desktop where it belongs. Mark my words, this will happen to you. And you will hate it.
No I won’t. I’ll be happy with my Mac. I think you mentioned Macs in your article, Paul:
The graphics subsystem is substantially improved, if a little obviously modeled after that in Mac OS X. Heck, half of the features of Windows Vista seem to have been lifted from Apple’s marketing materials.
And over here:
Losing WinFS wasn’t a big deal, I was told, because Windows Vista will still include pervasive index-based searching features modeled, apparently, after the Spotlight feature in Mac OS X.
Oh, and again here:
Modern operating systems like Linux and Mac OS X operate under a security model where even administrative users don’t get full access to certain features unless they provide an in-place logon before performing any task that might harm the system. This type of security model protects users from themselves, and it is something that Microsoft should have added to Windows years and years ago.
But, luckily, they added that feature, as mentioned above, in a way that will drive users nuts. So why in the world would I be running Windows Vista, Paul?