I dare say I’ve worked on more computers than you can possibly imagine.

Your understanding of the security issues is actually somewhat understated. We’re not talking about port blocking etc., but loss of basic network functionality due to a terribly lame implementation of security policy, rights and ownership. I was listening to Leo Laporte this weekend talking about the nightmare people are having doing simple networking between XP and Vista. Inexcusable! A quick Google search will show the thousands of people having similar frustrations and Microsoft is totally silent – acting like, as they always do, nothing is wrong.

My favorite write is John Dvorak. In a recent PC Magazine he wrote in and article titled “The Vista Death Watch”:

“…destined to be a disdained flop.”

and

“I’m certainly not going to be a happy camper if I have to switch to a Mac or Linux system full-time, yet that is exactly where this scatterbrained company seems to be sending me.”

Well said.

Thanks for your comment and glad you like the blog.

i/m

….because he is an unrepentant crook!

“There are a couple of cool visual effects and it’s a little more intelligent in some processes, but that, in no way, makes up for the incredibly lame security implementations.”

Unfortuanate that you can’t seem to understand or appreciate the changes. The security implementation is sadly a sign of the times, people want security built into the OS but they also want to run things like downloaders and file sharers, and malicious morons are constantly writing stuff to exploit the software and ports people use, there simply isn’t an easy answer. I think Vista may be the best MS has done so far, previously 98SE was what I considered the best. Backward compatability was getting beyond a joke and bloating the OS out of preportion, MS was very clear that Vista was from a new code base and that XP apps wouldn’t neccessarily be supported, some complain about it, but you were told.

As for your title question, Why is Bill Gates rich?

Because he sees further into the future than most and despite the bitching about windows, no one has come up with anything better, yes, I’m talking to you Apple and Linux, keep trying and one day your systems will be as good as windows.

Still loving the blog you venerable man you.

I think a lot of this is being resolved but its still been a major pain in the arse getting there.