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| Time: 19:30 EST/00:30 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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This is the year… the year that Microsoft releases the newest version of Windows. Yes, Vista will be released in November of this year. So what is so compelling that our customers would want to spend money upgrading to the Vista operating system? Let’s take a quick look at all that Vista offers a small business. | ||
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| #1 By 1401 (65.255.137.20) at 3/13/2006 7:44:34 PM |
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I've got some real issues with some points this dude makes. First of all, he starts off by saying that the new start menu is better and faster because it eliminated the 'slow' cascading menu style. But there you see that Recent Item and Network (and Control Panel also presumably) are cascading menus. All menus are cascading menus. And I honestly think people will not the like change to the new menu style - they will want their old cascading menus back. That's why I say, it's cool to have a new style in Vista, but leave the old style as an option, even if turned off by default. They shouldn't take it away, just add new features.
Then you have the Quick Search on the Start Menu. What does this search? My first thought was that it searches the start menu item - that's where it's located right? Does it search the entire hard drive? What does it find? I guess it's like clicking on Seach on the old Start Menu, but now it has a text box as well. Then we've got the search box in the explorer view. I absolutely hate that. I don't want to see the damn seach box every time I open up an Explorer window. I will hate it even more if it remembers what I typed in the last time I used it. Then I have to go clearing it out everytime so my wife doesn't see that I searched for "Paris Hilton Goes Crazy Ape Bonkers with Her Drill and Set" Thumbnails are definately cool and Flip3D is cool too. |
| #2 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 3/14/2006 12:14:14 AM |
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I am totally with you on this stuff, Chris.
It is all so "in your face" and the things I need to walk people to, are not nearly as evident. May be they won't need them... who knows... I do hope we can modify Vista to suite how we work - to what extent I have no clear idea, yet. I am so melancholy about it, too - all that gorgeous work and truly useful feature set - all hidden behind all this "stuff" - human vision being what it is....motion blur.... man, I swear a lady with super-normal vision and perfect color acuity drove this... had to be. That just is not the user base of middle aged professionals that we support end to end. They are going to hate these changes. |
| #3 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 3/14/2006 11:35:14 AM |
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Chris, lketchum--I agree regarding the Start Menu. I don't know what to think about the new scrolling programs menu... first, I agree that something had to change on the Start Menu, because if you have a ton of programs installed (as someone in IT typically does), you'll have a HUGE list and the performance gets pretty lousy (having old hardware doesn't help!). I realize it's still in beta, but the new menu certainly doesn't feel all that spritely (yet), but it does seem to perform better for longer lists. The only problem is that it really doesn't solve the manageability issue--once that list gets long, it is cumbersome whether it's a cascading list or a scrolling list... in fact, I think the scrolling list is worse--the cascading menus allows all the different program groups to be displayed while you search within one, whereas you can only see so much at a time within that scrolling list. All that said, one can easily turn on Classic mode.
However, I think the search is a definite improvement, and I'm anxious to put it through some serious testing (I wonder how much of it is somewhat of a placeholder for WinFS, though). This is functionality people want and need. The file system search on the Start Menu was not very powerful, and truly abysmal without indexing. The visual effects used for Flip and Flip3D are quite useful, though; I have to admit, I was surprised as I was thinking, "This is actually something I would use"--in other words, not just eye candy. The performance is very, very good (even with the installed drivers), and it offers much more than the old Alt + Tab. What I'm not seeing in the beta, though, is the "motion blur" you mention, lketchum. Actually, I'm very much looking forward to some of the resolution-independence functionality in Vista--particularly in IE 7--precisely for the folks that have poorer vision and nice, hi-res monitors. The zoom feature is a beautiful thing. Have you had much hands-on time with the Feb. CTP? I'm just not seeing the basis for that criticism. |
| #4 By 22962 (12.223.99.215) at 3/14/2006 1:19:06 PM |
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I have not seen Vista or the settings in Vista yet but in XP, you can get classic start menu while you can keep the XP style in whole desktop.
I am sure there is an option that you can get the classic start menu back in the settings. That way, you can have the classic menu while using Vista style in whole desktop. If not, I guess MS removed that menu option out. Also the scrollable start menu can be turn off as well. I hate this option. I had this option turned off every time I install XP. |
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