The Windows Vista Experience, part sloooow

[cdybedahl]

About ten minutes ago, I started unpacking a 127MB zip file. By right-clicking and selecting "Exract all...". At the moment, Windows claims it's got another 15 hours to go before it's done unpacking. This seems a tad on the long side.

Comments

[seaya.livejournal.com]

That's a sneaky thing for Microsoft to do. I have not heard of a computer like that here. My school system just did a big computer rollout, and ours have stickers on them that say they run Vista or XP...but we're running 2000.

Just because an American company makes the computer, that doesn't indicate what people in the states do. Did you know that Windows employees themselves have been playing games with their internal company rollout queue to avoid being the next person to get Vista? That's a serious indictment if I ever say so.

Also, it really is a bad operating system for serious sound editing because of its overzealous DRM.

I suppose they *could* fix it. But that would take a lot of rewriting.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I knew there's a lot of resistance to Vista, but I hadn't heard that it's common among Microsoft employees. That is, as you say, pretty bad.

And I find it difficult to believe that HP would design special machines for the non-US market. The general trend in the past 20 years or so has been exactly the opposite, to make the differences as small as possible to get the most out of economies of scale. I find it much easier to believe that Microsoft is using their considerable leverage to get computer manufacturers to shove Vista down their customers' throats. Time will tell, in either case.

And yes, the DRM stuff in Vista is truly atrocious. Although if we're lucky it may actually be the beginning of the end of Microsoft's market dominance.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

I find it much easier to believe that Microsoft is using their considerable leverage to get computer manufacturers to shove Vista down their customers' throats.

I think this is probably the answer.

Although if we're lucky it may actually be the beginning of the end of Microsoft's market dominance.

If only we should be so lucky!