More Impressions of Microsoft Vista...

by Codewiz51 January 14, 2009 21:11
  • After working a little longer with Vista, I have to peg UAC as a most inconvenient feature. I understand the why's and wherefore's of UAC, I just don't like the intense user interaction that is required.
  • I like the IE protected mode. Except, the user needs a way to copy files to some location other than the internet temporary files folder so ActiveX controls that need to process a file can be directed to the correct location. Asking a user to copy files to the internet temp directory is a bit unwieldy.
  • Too many whiz bang graphics. How the heck do you turn off wall papers in Vista? (I ended up creating a one pixel bmp file.) The interface is just too busy in my opinion.
  • I was pleased that OracleXE installed and operated flawlessy on Vista. My hat is off to the Oracle crowd for this acheivement.
  • I don't like the fact that being a member of the debug users group is not enough to allow debugging under Visual Studio 2005. (Hey Microsoft, some of us don't have the option of upgrading at the moment.)
  • I am just now getting into the 6.0 and 6.1 Platform SDK, so it's a little early to discuss changes to the SDK. So far, I like what I see. (But I am worried about the fate of WTL on the next version of Windows.)
  • The Visual Studio 2005 documentation seems to open a lot more quickly under Vista.
That's about it for tonight.

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