I am very pleased with Vista and MS Office 2007.
Sure they are different and you must take the time to learn them.
Dont forget what a change XP was from previous OS's by MS.
Personally almost all of the software I use benefits positively from Vista.
Vista has really stepped up the performance of multi core cpu's
and I see that benefit immediately. I would never switch back to XP, I am
a Vista addict. I have noticed some issues with Vista and I am compiling
a list. I remember all the issues I had with XP and legacy software, and
this time around I am actually having less trouble with legacy software
with Vista than I did with XP. I have Vista on two pc's here and they run
an average of a week without a reboot or restart. They only get restarted
because I am a creature of habit. I have experienced one crash with Vista
and have never had the BSOD (blue screen of death). I would caution
all uses to make sure you can find the drivers for your hardware before
you even consider using Vista. I would highly and strongly recommend
2 gigs of ram and a dual core cpu. Vista is intended to be used
on newer hardware, just as XP was when it came out. My only real
complaint concerns the hardware vendors, not releasing drivers
in a timely manner. Vista beta was around for a LONG time before
Vista was released, and in my opinion there is not much excuse
for hardware vendors who were late or have not released Vista
drivers for their products. Office 2007 rocks I would recommend
it to anyone. You will have to take the time to learn it as the interface
has completely changed. However, the interface is easier to use and
more efficient once you become accomodated to it. I as all the others
in this NG will provide help as I can.
G



"meg99az" <marcg99999 at aol dot com> wrote in message
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>I have my first new machine with Vista and Office 2007.
> They are usability disasters as far as I am concerned.
> It seeems as though an awful lot of development effort went into bells and
> whistles, most of it form over substance, while dismantling many of the
> most
> important usability and productivity features.
>
> I know that new OSes and interfaces need time to sink in, but these new
> programs aren't just new - they are legitimately worse - dysfunctional for
> genuine productivity, a return to the stone ages. Seems like that on the
> next major OS release, we will be back to swapping floppies or using
> cassette recorders to load the OS.
>
> I hate to complain without offering up thoughtful details and suggestions.
> But before I do, my question is this:
>
> Does anyone from MS read these NG's or take them seriously? Does this all
> fall on deaf ears and arrogant disregard for customers, or is there
> someone
> at MS who takes this all seriously? If not, where else does one go to
> register thoughtful feedback?
>
> If someone is listening, I just might be a regular participant here.
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> Here's something to chew on:
>
> Remember back when - circa 1985 or thereabouts? IBM and MS were
> developing
> a radical new GUI OS: OS/2. And, IBM had come out with its next
> generation
> of PCs with a new incompatible bus architecture ("MCA" as I recall). In
> one
> fell swoop, IBM ticked off its entire customer base, by creating a new
> generation of machines that would force corporations to trash their entire
> old investments and retrain their entire staffs. MS took care of its
> customers, promising slow steady changes and backward compatibility, and
> the
> Wintel system won by a landslide, and the mighty IBM was out. Now, with
> MS
> concerned by Google and Linux and Apple nipping at its heels in various
> ways, the Vista / Office 2007 debut reminds me of the IBM - MCA - OS/2
> debacle. MS has never been a warm fuzzy patron of its customers, but this
> just seems to be total disregard for how millions of people world wide use
> and depend on their products. Unless Vista Service Packs fix the bugs,
> the
> profound lack of customization options, and the Windows Explorer and
> Office
> toolbars disasters, I will keep using XP for quite a long time. This
> might
> be just the incentive that someone needs to develop a more robust Linux
> that
> can support MS apps, because the sense I get is that enough people are
> sufficiently upset to be wishing for a good alternative.
>
> - meg -
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