Vista Beta Privilege’s
So I finally got around to installing the Vista Beta yesterday (it was time for my quarterly format so I figured what the hell). Overall I think it’s a dazzling operating system with all the bells and whistles of bloat. Microsoft is pretty good with going to the next level with their GUI each time they put out a new OS, and while some things from older platforms have been retained others have been changed completely (or at least altered/renamed in such a way to seem new). In a way it seems the operating system has been ‘dumbed down’ for people who beyond oblivious to using a little common sense and clicking around to find what you need. Redundancy is a word I may use..maybe even over bearing..but this is still Beta and from what I can tell the whole thing is fairly customizable ( so the minimalist me in can reign).
I continue to use this I hope to post more about what I like/don’t like. I may edit this entry, or I may just create anew (?) all together. My first complaint though is the ridiculous and utterly annoying Administration/User privileges thing that’s seemingly buried deep within Windows itself. Again this is Beta so hopefully these are the obligatory glitches, but basically as it stands now I am the only account “in town” who has administration privileges who has to click through 3 or 4 windows before I can alter any settings or am denied authorization outright.
I turned User Control off (seen above) because it was flat out annoying and wouldn’t let me allow me to edit a simple .lnk and wouldn’t even allow me to join a Battlefield server, all in the name of ‘you dont have the proper privileges’.
^So now I get to stare at that all the time now. Anyone know a work around to get that ‘alert’ to go away? (I beg your forgiveness for skewed images, the XP Image Resizer which I’ve grown to adore doesn’t work with Vista)
**EDIT**
Here’s another example;
I love how it’s telling the administrator to contact the administrator for permission. I had to tick mark ‘remember my answer’ and skip 80 operations. Operations being pieces of my plane!!!!
July 25th, 2006 at 11:20 am
That GUI is nothing new, Microsoft just copied Mac OSX.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:44 am
No disrespect, but as a user of Windows since it’s 3.1 days all the way up to this Vista Beta, Mac OS9 and OSX, and multiple Linux window managers, the Vista user interface is NOT copied from OSX, or any other windowing environment available on the market today. No doubt there are touches of inspiration from the Apple camp, just as there are from KDE and Gnome, but Vista is hands-down the best looking computer desktop I’ve ever touched. Like it or not, the Mac OS desktop is still two-dimensional, while Vista is using DirectX to draw the desktop in 3D. The easiest way to now that Vista’s “Aero Glass” interface is not a rip-off of Apple’s OS though is the usability factor. OSX is 10x easier to navigate the the current Vista beta. Talk about annoying.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Well the one key thing I’m talking about about with Vista copying OSX is their desktop widgets or whatever fruity name Gates decides to give them. They’re nearly identical to what comes standard.
July 27th, 2006 at 8:57 am
More on the Aero Glass, Microsoft has vector-based drawing which is a new implementation. It’s a brilliant leap ahead of other GUI’s, and I expect that other implementations (KDE, Gnome, Apple) will implement it in the future. They all have taken some of the good points from each other — and will continue to do so — because that’s what competition is all about.
Just because two objects are both pretty, doesn’t mean that one is copied from the other. No one complains about Progressive soup “copying” Campbell’s or one model of car “copying” Volvo for having air bags.
Besides, it’s a whole helluva lot easier to throw a couple of cut-up carrots in some water than to “copy” 50+ million lines of code.