Vista Ultimate Ultimate what ? (MS Windows Vista Business)

Member Name: donley

Product:	MS Windows Vista Business
Date:	15/01/08 (111 review reads)
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Disadvantages: Uncompatible, slow, unstable,

Lets get this over with quickly. Vista is a pile of poo.

I do not make this claim lightly, I have been a beta-tester for Microsoft since 1989, testing first Windows 3.0 then 3.1, 3.11, and Windows for workgroups.
I have tested Windows Chicago (Win95) right through to Vista.

In 2001, XP was released, and contrary to what most people around here think, XP was not the greatest system Microsoft produced, that title falls to Windows 2000.

However, XP was released, and as soon as it hit the shelves, it was snapped up by the bucketload. For some reason people liked it, Microsoft was onto a winner.

Then the guys in Redmond put out the specs for Longhorn, the follow up to XP, the specifications to it were very impressive, no latency, enhanced security, database filesystem, drivers in user space.

Since the initial press release, there have been a few beta versions, and in each version things were getting dropped. Eventually Longhorn was released, (in beta form), as Vista.

First to go was the database filesystem. Pity, it has been in Linux for years and works excellently there.

Next was the drivers in user space. A driver crash will still take down Vista.

The enhanced security ? Sorry, that too is non-existent. Vista included UAC - User Access Control, all this does is ask you permission before screwing up your computer.

Vista Ultimate includes Bitlocker. This in theory will lock your hard drive so that if your PC is stolen, no-one can see your files, however, it was written incorrectly and currently Citibank are suing Microsoft for $15 Billion of lost revenue, as Bitlocker screwed up and took out their whole New York department... A department that Microsoft were using as an ad campaign as they had moved their desktops to Vista from XP.....

Bill Gates believes Vista is a flop, and although he does not admit is outright, he deflects questions about Vista by saying that Windows Vienna will be released in 2009. (As a beta tester, I have seen Vienna, and if I were you, I would look to switch to Linux pretty soon).

Lastly, if you have Ultimate or Premium editions of Vista, call Microsoft with any problem, and the call advisor will supply you with a CD-Key for XP that will allow you to revert to XP. They will however, not refund any cash.

Summary: Pile of poo.

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