Saturday, February 10, 2007
Windows Vista Week 2
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "SOFTWARE" @ 11:00 AM
"We are now in the second week of the Windows Vista launch and the FUD (Fear Uncertainly and Doubt) being spread by those that compete with Microsoft is reaching amazing proportions. Apple, in their Mac vs. PC campaign is taking all kinds of shots at the system and wound up getting Bill Gates so excited he actually called Steve Jobs a liar in a NewsWeek interview. The campaign does say some questionable things which we’ll explore at another time but let’s check how the Vista launch month is going."
Check out the article for some details on what looks to be a pretty smooth launch for Vista thus far. On a personal note, I got a copy of Vista to play around with at work and have been pretty impressed with it. If anything, I find it almost too user friendly. I know this sounds weird, but I'll explain. I installed Vista on a few year old Thinkpad. Installation went very smoothly. I booted up and was unable to get on-line. I could not find any way to set-up my wireless access because there simply were no wireless options showing. Apparently, Vista only shows you options which you can actually use. Vista must not have had drivers for my built-in wireless, but had not informed me of this during the install (or I missed it if it did). So, I plug into a wired connection and within 30 second, Vista pops up that it had found solutions for my computer, the solution included wireless drivers. A few more clicks, and my wireless was up and running. From the novice users perspective, this is great; but as a more experienced user, I did find this a bit frustrating.
Check out the article for some details on what looks to be a pretty smooth launch for Vista thus far. On a personal note, I got a copy of Vista to play around with at work and have been pretty impressed with it. If anything, I find it almost too user friendly. I know this sounds weird, but I'll explain. I installed Vista on a few year old Thinkpad. Installation went very smoothly. I booted up and was unable to get on-line. I could not find any way to set-up my wireless access because there simply were no wireless options showing. Apparently, Vista only shows you options which you can actually use. Vista must not have had drivers for my built-in wireless, but had not informed me of this during the install (or I missed it if it did). So, I plug into a wired connection and within 30 second, Vista pops up that it had found solutions for my computer, the solution included wireless drivers. A few more clicks, and my wireless was up and running. From the novice users perspective, this is great; but as a more experienced user, I did find this a bit frustrating.
