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In response to:Vista Squad Community web site for all Microsoft Vista &.Net related technologies

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:20:38 +0100

I’m sure there is a lot of talk about the pros and cons of any new operating system especially if developed by a large corporation.

But for myself I look forward to any new and improving technologies from open source to large corporations, I just enjoy technology and exploring computers capabilities at work and at play.

Like most things in life we are all scared of change but given time we can all adapt.

I believe that any development by anyone person or company is a step forward and worth an in depth look at unless we are able to create our own.

We should all learn to push the boundaries of technology for the benefit of understanding and improving our own potentials.

Thank you for responding to my blog always interested in hearing all points of view.

In response to:Vista Squad Community web site for all Microsoft Vista &.Net related technologies

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:35:16 +0100

The latest word on the street is that a very large number of computer users are UPgrading their computers from Vista back to XP. For them Vista has been an expensive mistake.

In response to:Windows Vista's "WOW"

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:41:06 +0100

I own and run a G3 Apple laptop with OS X and also run linux ubuntu on a Toshiba so I can see your point of view. Looking at both of these Windows Vista at first glance already could be classed as dated.
But digging deeper under the skin from a technical perspective were I spend most of my working life fixing main stream pc’s mainly Windows based, the possibilities to make my working life less stressful doing day to day repairs and training the end users (that have only really used Windows based system is pure heaven.)

Yes I’m sure loads of people as normal will complain about badly written code, bloated software and antitrust e.t.c .As my job involves fixing many of these problems I’m happy to co-existed with Windows many problems as it keeps me employed and pay’s for my toys.

All the best and thanks for your comments
Happy Pc’ing

In response to:Windows Vista's "WOW"

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:09:43 +0100

Hi there,

I played with Vista the other day in a shop, and as a recent convert to mac, it's really nothing revolutionary. OSX has had most of this stuff for ages now...

They may as well have called it Windows OSXP. :)

In response to:Windows Vista's "WOW"

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:29:08 +0100

No I don't get paid for this just use Windows a lot every day and have to delve very deep into it for fixing problems.
From an every day user point of view it offers huge improvements in security, usability and appearance, it’s packed with loads of new features too,

including: - better searching straight of the start menu, much better design of start menu no longer cascades across screen, Photo Gallery including tag system for better organization and also photo editing so you can remove red eye’s. Media player 11 has had a near total revamp to ensure your music collection is a pleasure and not a chore to organize, create your own movies and record to DVD with no 3rd party software. It also helps make light work for home networking.

There’s so many more improvements for gamers, parental controls, performance, it includes Windows media Center, record live TV, I could go on for hours, its well worth a look at.

As to your second point with regards your well used and loved old pc check out my blog in a bit and I will list minimum system requirements and also a link were you can down load a tool from Microsoft that will asses your hardware and inform you how you stand in the way of upgrading.

Great to hear from you, if I can be of further help please contact me.

In response to:Windows Vista's "WOW"

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:01:22 +0100

say do you get any money for this? ;) just kidding. i really dont know whats so great about vista but the new design... which is nice by the way, i have to say. however, i guess vista won't work on my (very) old computer, would it? maybe you could write a small list of improvements in your next blog entry, that would be useful. so long, nik.