Comments on: Some Thoughts on Windows Vista

By: John Topley

John Topley — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:51:13 +0000

Right. That sort of stuff’s been off-limits since Windows 2000, so you think they’d have learnt by now.

By: John Conners

John Conners — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:41:44 +0000

Well I hit the problem with TextPad that was trying to write to the HKLM registry hive, then I realised that loads of other software could potentially do the same so switched UAC off so it wouldn’t trouble me!

By: John Topley

John Topley — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:38:32 +0000

What software is giving you problems, out of interest?

By: John Conners

John Conners — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:48:22 +0000

I wouldn’t mind using UAC if all the software I run could deal with it so come the final release of Vista maybe I’ll leave it on… I’m pretty sure you can turn most of the security off – in fact when you first install Vista it creates your user without a password, you have to explicitly go and set one!

By: John Topley

John Topley — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:49:02 +0000

I can’t believe Vista lets you disable UAC – what’s the point of that? Can you turn off all the other security too?

By: John Conners

John Conners — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:49:38 +0000

Oh don’t panic, it’s all under source control, I can roll back at any time! Plus 3.0 is quite a way off yet… As for Redmond, I’m afraid I like Yorkshire way too much!

By: Ian Nelson

Ian Nelson — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:03:15 +0000

Wow, that was a lengthy consultation period with your JBS users before making the decision to migrate! Question posted in your forum at noon on Saturday and you’ve made the switch by evening on Sunday! Ever thought of a career at Redmond…?

By: John Conners

John Conners — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:16:43 +0000

John, that’s pretty cheap! And Christmas is coming up soon…

It’s too late Ian, I’ve already moved JBS to VS2005 so I’ve jumped on the bandwaggon and can stick with Vista!

And I’m sure a lot of big MS customers will continue to stick with VS2003 for some time yet (especially with the tricky prospect of upgrading ASP.NET projects to VS2005).

By: Ian Nelson

Ian Nelson — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:12:30 +0000

I’m pretty surprised that VS.NET 2003 won’t be supported in Vista, especially when VB6 will be! Not that I personally wish to use VS.NET 2003, but I’m sure plenty of people need to, and will be a bit pissed off at this decision.

Still, it sounds like MS are hearing this feedback, and may well be forced to back down / compromise – check out http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/09/29/777681.aspx

By: John Topley

John Topley — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:55:45 +0000

Sorry John, I was going for the broken record angle! Hey, did you know that the Mac mini starts at £399.00 and the iMac starts at £679.00? They’re practically giving them away nowadays…