Well said. Oh boy, how I agree with you!
"flylake" <flylake@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OK, I'm an old fart and I've used Windows since 1983 (v1 beta). I've
> always
> been a Windows fan, until now. While there are some things I like about
> VISTA there are a ton that I just cannot stand. For example:
> 1. Outlook (now Windows mail) no longer supports multiple user accounts.
> I
> need to be able to see 5 different email accounts - 2 for work, my
> personal
> account, an account I use to be the administrator of a friend's web site,
> and
> the account I use to monitor my kid's online activity. Windows Mail
> doesn't
> support this so now I need to look for a 3rd party program to do what I
> need
> it to do. I'm not going to set up a separate user account for each email.
> What a stupid move.
> 2. Photo capture is a royal pain in the arse. It used to be real easy.
> Plug in the camera, turn it on and capture my photos. Now the new
> directory
> structure with tagging is so complex it is ridiculous. I copied 10
> pictures
> over from my camera and VISTA returned a page long directory structure
> when I
> was done. I couldn't begin to find my pictures after I closed the preveiw
> screen until I closed everything and used Explorer. And, geez, you guys
> have even ruined explorer. You've taken a lean directory searching
> machine
> and turned it into a fat slob of a program. Give us people that know how
> to
> use a directory the ability to bypass all this baloney.
> 3. IE 7 is also a pain to use. You took all the feartures of IE6 and
> stripped them off the main page, putting them in drop down menus. IE6 was
> so
> much simpler to navigate and use. Give us back menu buttons at the top of
> the screen. Having to navigate drop down menues for everything is a royal
> pain.
>
> In trying to copy the MAC OS you guys are creating such a complex file
> structure system where we are forced to use the built in directory tools,
> which are very complex, slow and add in a ton of garbage 99% of the people
> on
> this planet will never need or use. You took effective tools and reduced
> them to garbage. Your new add-ons are so cumbersome to use I'm finding for
> the first time in 10 years, I have to replace all the built in Microsoft
> applications with 3rd party software. The potential for disaster
> regarding
> future file compatibility and portability is enormous. Plus the expense
> is
> enormous. Why'd you have to go and mess everything up like that?
>
> If the functionality of Windows XP Pro and IE6 were a 9, I'd have to rate
> VISTA and IE7 a 4 or 5 at best. I hate to say it, but you guys are almost
> forcing me to switch to a MAC. If you're going to go the "point and
> click"
> route, then do it right. The new VISTA and IE7 are like a fat man. Tons
> of
> features, but all of them are slow, cumbersome and very un-clear
>
> Windows 2000 was great, XP even better, but with VISTA you've added a
> bunch
> of cool features encumbered by 1000lbs of useless fat.
>
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