Re: How workable is Vista?



Paul Keinanen wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:29:47 -0400, "MC"
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One thing I really like is that Vista is ready to respond to mouse clicks almost the moment it boots up; I don't have to wait for all the startup applications to finish before I can get responses to anything I do. XP was notorious for sitting around 2 or 3 minutes with little things still starting up, not letting you do anything. With Vista, the startup apps may take the same 2 or 3 minutes but you can go ahead and get started doing your work.


The first question, why on earth does the computer have to be booted?

The computer should be on when you need it. Why on earth do you need the computer to be on when you are not using it?

Do you keep the water taps in your bathroom open at all time?

Why not just let the computer run through the night?

Fire hazard, noisy fans, energy waste, hardware wear?

I have been managing big VAX/VMS systems in the 1980/90s, in which the
question was which _year_ the next boot should be performed. I assume
that the situation was similar for any Unix system.

The Microsoft 9x family was quite useless for any serious
applications,

Like what?

but for instance NT 3.51 did not crash even if you
looked at it with the angry eye :-).

Most of the problems attributed to Microsoft are actually caused by the lousy application programmers and unskilled operators.


The problem with any Microsoft version is that it needs daily (or at
least weekly) security updates,

There is no practical need to do updates to the original versions. Well, with the exception for the few special cases when you really need never components. It is Microsoft who wants you to be addicted on the unnecessary clutter.

which strangely also require a reboot.

This is not strange. It is quite difficult to unninstall the loaded component correctly, with all associations and dependencies. They ask for reboot to make sure everything is done all right. In the most of cases you can continue safely without reboot even if they required it.

For this reason, I do not recommend to my customers to use any Windows
based operating systems, unless a double/triple redundant system is
used (in which case you can boot one PC at a time for security
updates).

If someone is a lamer, he will have problems regardless of OS.



Vladimir Vassilevsky
DSP and Mixed Signal Design Consultant
http://www.abvolt.com
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