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Windows Vista still sucks.

Release Candidate 1 my ass.  This thing is a clumsy, disjointed, counter-intuitive piece of crap.  They’ve been working on this since XP came out and THIS is IT?  It’s horrible.  Terrible.  Atrocious.  Unbelievably so. 

It goes without saying that OSX is simple and elegant compared to Vista, but the terrible thing is that XP is ALSO simple and elegant compared to Vista.  I cannot tell you how horrid this thing is. 

Now, for those of you who were unfortunate enough (as I was) to try to install Vista in VMWare (and discovered that you can’t), there is a fairly simple workaround.

Add the following lines to your virtual machine’s configuration file (.vmx) before installing Vista:

svga.maxWidth = “640”
svga.MaxHeight = “480”

After Vista is installed, install the VMware Tools and then shutdown the virtual machine. Remove the added lines from the configuration file and then power the virtual machine back on.  You should then be good to go.

I’ve even gotten GroupWise to work on Vista, and that’s a feat that not too many people seem to have accomplished so far.  I basically had to install GroupWise 7.01, uninstall it, uninstall WIndows Messaging, and then install GroupWise again.  Then it appears to work. 

Anyway, I think whoever designed the Vista interface needs to be not just fired but killed. 

The more I use Windows the more I love my Mac. 

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I’m also trying the “RC1” Version of Vista, but I see no reason to buy it.  But then the only time I bought XP was when it came bundled with my Thinkpad.

But, but...the article I saw in the IndyStar said it was “stable” and good to go.

</sarcasm>

What hath Microsoft wrought?

(Shit, apparently.)

If by “stable” they mean “BSOD every time I shut it down,” yeah, I guess it IS good to go.  Of course, that’s probably because I’m running it in VMWare (yeah, imagine me not wanting to load MS betaware on my ThinkPad...) but still.

I’m with Will, I can see absolutely no reason to spend money on the thing.  I would have been PERFECTLY satisfied if they’d left the interface alone and just fixed the security issues.  I’d have been really happy if they’d left the interface alone, fixed the security issues and implemented WinFS.  And if tey fixed DLL hell, wow, that would have been spectacular.  But no, they spent four years fixing the part that wasn’t broken. 

Playing with RC1 all day yesterday just inspired me to finally order that MacBook, it’s on its way. 

This was supposed to be the OS that made me love Microsoft again, and so far it has only pushed me even farther into the OSX camp than I already was.

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