Unsurprising. There is a definite feeling of “we’ll tell them what’s good for them” at MS.
I remember when I worked as an analyst at MSN, I was walking down the hall and one of my managers was participating in a hallway-conference-room semi-open meeting about Hotmail registration. They were talking about how in order to register, they’d require the user to submit all this various information, and all the great marketing synergies they would get from this.
I interjected (which was cool, that was the whole point of the hallway-type meetings) that users wouldn’t want to do that. “Oh, that’s OK, we’ll just make it a requirement that they give us the information in order to sign up.” I eyerolled and patiently said that people would give them fake information to get the accounts. “No, they won’t, because we’ll require that it be valid information.” I thought “ok, chief, I tried, you go ahead with that brilliant plan.”
That reminds me, I need to go update my Rusty Shackleford hotmail account. Gotta keep the spam out of that thing. Authoritarians always think they have more power than they actually have.
Most Linux distributions do the exact same thing; they don’t want you running in root mode any more than necessary. As a result, most programs can run from a chroot jail. That’s not far pressed from running a program without hitting a UAC prompt.
Considering that I’ve spent most of the day trying to figure out why the BLEEP one of my users can’t establish a VPN connection from his friggin Vista laptop to the LAN, I totally believe that MS is trying to piss me off.
I think the rest of the office is very thankful that my office door is nice and thick…
It occurs to me that other technological inventions weren’t made this difficult for general public consumption. Television was, in essence, plug and play but I’m sure they could have annoyed us and made it more difficult, if they had wanted to. The manufacturers could have dazzled us with their technological prowess and made us click button A while simultaneously holding switch B and turning knob C before a picture would appear, but they didn’t. Ditto radio and many others.
I’ve never used a Mac but Vista is so bad that I’m considering chucking the whole box (at home anyway)and moving on to Apple. My only problem is that I don’t get much gaming choice on a Mac.
As far as workgoes I use Autocad and associated programs (on which I make a decent living) which are not Mac compatible. Sucks for me.
Just try to do an advanced search on a file suffix.
So far, it either can’t be done anymore, or someone’s gonna have to tell me, because Vista Help is not very helpful, either.
Putting anything into the WinKey search box will leave a Search Everything at the bottom of the bar where programs normally show up (you can shift+tab to it). Going to that will open up a search window, and hitting the arrow at the top right next to the “Advanced Search” text will advanced search window. Putting *.txt will do an advanced search on all txt files with the advance properties you provided.
The search bar is also based on the same backend software as Windows Search for XP and 2003, so it supports AQS — if you really like doing powerful search quickly with just the keyboard, learning those commands makes it rather easy.
Not that learning that number of commands is easy… but that’s always been a problem.
gattsuru, the difference is that even white-box builders (as I am) can’t create a normal account with admin privileges without working at it. Windows, on the other hand, defaults to that, so everyone has gotten used to it. It was a stupid design decision from MS and now they’re making another one.
Steve Ducharme: if you are serious about considering an Apple Intel system, then read up on the Parallels Desktop for Mac. From what I’ve read, it’s better than Boot Camp in that it allows Windows applications to run seamlessly as individual Mac applications. Or you can run WinXP as a separate window under OS X.
Unsurprising. There is a definite feeling of “we’ll tell them what’s good for them” at MS.
I remember when I worked as an analyst at MSN, I was walking down the hall and one of my managers was participating in a hallway-conference-room semi-open meeting about Hotmail registration. They were talking about how in order to register, they’d require the user to submit all this various information, and all the great marketing synergies they would get from this.
I interjected (which was cool, that was the whole point of the hallway-type meetings) that users wouldn’t want to do that. “Oh, that’s OK, we’ll just make it a requirement that they give us the information in order to sign up.” I eyerolled and patiently said that people would give them fake information to get the accounts. “No, they won’t, because we’ll require that it be valid information.” I thought “ok, chief, I tried, you go ahead with that brilliant plan.”
That reminds me, I need to go update my Rusty Shackleford hotmail account. Gotta keep the spam out of that thing. Authoritarians always think they have more power than they actually have.
Uh, yeah?
Most Linux distributions do the exact same thing; they don’t want you running in root mode any more than necessary. As a result, most programs can run from a chroot jail. That’s not far pressed from running a program without hitting a UAC prompt.
Considering that I’ve spent most of the day trying to figure out why the BLEEP one of my users can’t establish a VPN connection from his friggin Vista laptop to the LAN, I totally believe that MS is trying to piss me off.
I think the rest of the office is very thankful that my office door is nice and thick…
Sheesh.
It occurs to me that other technological inventions weren’t made this difficult for general public consumption. Television was, in essence, plug and play but I’m sure they could have annoyed us and made it more difficult, if they had wanted to. The manufacturers could have dazzled us with their technological prowess and made us click button A while simultaneously holding switch B and turning knob C before a picture would appear, but they didn’t. Ditto radio and many others.
Pfuh.
Just try to do an advanced search on a file suffix.
So far, it either can’t be done anymore, or someone’s gonna have to tell me, because Vista Help is not very helpful, either.
I’ve been using Vista for a month at work. It’s hell. It forces you to use your mouse for every thing. Thankfully, I remember my alt codes. Still.
The happy thought I hang onto is that Bill Gates, like all mortals, shall have to die one day. May Vista perish with him on that fateful day.
I’ve never used a Mac but Vista is so bad that I’m considering chucking the whole box (at home anyway)and moving on to Apple. My only problem is that I don’t get much gaming choice on a Mac.
As far as workgoes I use Autocad and associated programs (on which I make a decent living) which are not Mac compatible. Sucks for me.
Putting anything into the WinKey search box will leave a Search Everything at the bottom of the bar where programs normally show up (you can shift+tab to it). Going to that will open up a search window, and hitting the arrow at the top right next to the “Advanced Search” text will advanced search window. Putting *.txt will do an advanced search on all txt files with the advance properties you provided.
The search bar is also based on the same backend software as Windows Search for XP and 2003, so it supports AQS — if you really like doing powerful search quickly with just the keyboard, learning those commands makes it rather easy.
Not that learning that number of commands is easy… but that’s always been a problem.
Good grief gattsuru. If that explanation is the solution joan of argggh’s problem then things are much worse than I thought.
gattsuru, the difference is that even white-box builders (as I am) can’t create a normal account with admin privileges without working at it. Windows, on the other hand, defaults to that, so everyone has gotten used to it. It was a stupid design decision from MS and now they’re making another one.
Steve Ducharme: if you are serious about considering an Apple Intel system, then read up on the Parallels Desktop for Mac. From what I’ve read, it’s better than Boot Camp in that it allows Windows applications to run seamlessly as individual Mac applications. Or you can run WinXP as a separate window under OS X.
If you want an easy interface for advanced searches in Windows of any flavor, get yourself a copy of Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander).
http://www.ghisler.com/
I’ve used it for years, ’cause I’ve never liked the MS file management tools. It’s far easier and more flexible than Windows Explorer.