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Queest-ce que vous obtenez-vous quand vous prenez un produit employé par des centaines de millions de personnes journalières, ajoutez quelques nouveaux dispositifs/poli vers le haut de l'interface, et puis essayez d'obtenir chacun pour écosser dehors une poignée d'argent pour ceci retarde et pour désinsectiser la mise à niveau infestée ? Non, nous ne parlons pas du nouveau coke, bien que Microsoft pourrait avoir appris probablement une leçon de cela expérience échouée quand il a abordé développer ce qui finirait vers le haut d'être Windows Vista, à savoir cette demande des consommateurs plus que du glitz et le nouvel empaquetage de fantaisie s'ils sont d'abandonner un vieux, digne de confiance ami. Et sans compter que ce GUI aérien impressionnant - du lequel beaucoup de PCs ne peuvent pas tirer profit de toute façon - qu'est-il Vista nous offrant vraiment que XP pas ? Un nouveau joueur de médias briser-enclin ? Exclusive “ultimate extras” that have so far amounted to a lame shareware game? A thousand chances a day to feel important when bequeathing “Administrator privileges” on all those demanding processes?

You can probably tell by now that we’re no Vista proponents, and having run the new OS exclusively for almost six months at this point, we’re actually…

A couple weeks ago, my buddy Dwight Silverman asked whether he should be tempted by low, low prices to bump the RAM in his Windows Vista machine from 2GB to 4GB.

He asks:

My problem is this: I want the RAM, but do I really need it? I seldom, if ever, use all the memory now in my PC — the RAM gauge I use as part of yahoo widgets seldom goes above 65 or 75 percent. I have no performance complaints. (I also use a 2-GB USB flash drive for Vista’s ReadyBoost, which helps.) Would spending $80 to kick my RAM up a single gigabyte to 3 GB be worth it? Would I be better off spending $160 and going to 4 GB?

I’ve got a lot of experience with different PC configurations, and I can say with confidence that 2GB is more than enough for even the most demanding business user. There are two important exception to that rule: If you use one or more virtual machines in the same session, you’ll benefit from as much RAM as you can install, and 2GB probably won’t be enough. You’ll also need (and want) the extra…

Windows Vista has kind of gotten a bum rap. Some of the rap is deserved — Microsoft shipped it too early. But for the most part, the rap is carried on by vocal techies who just like to poop on things because they think criticizing things makes them appear more knowledgeable.

Talking to a techie about the quality of mainstream software is a lot like talking to a film school graduate about the quality of mainstream movies. Sure, you might have liked Pirates of the Caribbean but talk to a film snob and it’s the 7th sign of the Apocalypse. So how good is Windows Vista? The answer is, pretty good. Far better than Windows XP. But I can think of 5 big mistakes Microsoft made that has taken a window out of its sails.

Let me outline those 5 mistakes Microsoft made with the Windows Vista launch and talk about how Microsoft might be able to keep Windows Vista from being a sequel to Windows ME.

#1 The UAC. The User Account Control in Windows Vista is a feature that appears to have been designed by a marketing…

Is Vista the operating system love to hate, or the one you hate to love? Those conflicting thoughts surfaced as I followed Ed Bott’s provocative post on whether vista scare stories are distorting user perceptions. My take: Vista wouldn’t be my primary OS if I didn’t really like it, but it’s still got issues. Five in particular stick in my craw.

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When Windows XP doesn’t want to do stuff, it simply locks up in what I call car-crash mode. You know: Those 15 seconds when XP isn’t responding to your mouse click (and 20 re-clicks) seem like a couple of hours. When you get several mini-lockups in a row, you know it’s time to reboot and shake free whatever process (often, rundll32.exe) that has run amuck.

Standard operating procedure in Vista is both better and worse. I call it the “stutter-start� response. When Vista’s flummoxed, it doesn’t outright up and die on you. Instead, you get that little swirling

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