{"id":837,"date":"2008-06-14T22:32:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=837"},"modified":"2008-06-14T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T02:32:44","slug":"vista-5-minute-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/14\/vista-5-minute-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista, 5-Minute Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I graduated from college, I lost my license to use Office*, and had various other key things shut off. I was given an opportunity to purchase Vista (Business Edition) <em>Upgrade<\/em> and Office 2007 (Enterprise) for $20 each, so I figured I should, since I had no media for XP or Office. And then I remembered I had a spare 60GB partition for Windows on my 160 GB drive from when I&#8217;d intended to dual-boot, so I just installed it here. A few thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>The install was &#8220;easy&#8221; but frankly not that great. I&#8217;ll dock a small number of points because, unlike the Ubuntu installer, it&#8217;s not a LiveCD: I can&#8217;t <em>use<\/em> the system while it&#8217;s installing. When your installer takes 20-30 minutes, it&#8217;s <em>very<\/em> nice to have a browser or game or something going. It also seemed to take forever, and at the end, went to reboot, but gave me a &#8220;Reboot Now&#8221; option, which I took. It never ejected my DVD, nor did it tell me to, so I figured I was supposed to leave it in&#8230;<\/li>\n    <li>&#8230;So it booted into the installer agian. I closed it, and got a message that I couldn&#8217;t use Windows if I didn&#8217;t install Windows. (Thanks&#8230; Though I suppose there are people who actually need that message.) And then it warned me that if I cancelled the installation, my computer may reboot.<\/li>\n    <li>Of course, I <em>wanted<\/em> to reboot my computer, so I said OK. My computer did not reboot.<\/li>\n    <li>Everything feels much more polished!<\/li>\n    <li>It spent several minutes &#8220;evaluating [my] computer&#8217;s performance&#8221; before going away with no indication of what had just happened. (I knew enough to find it, though: a 3.1. This bothers me slightly, since it&#8217;s a fairly meaningless number, but I digress.)<\/li>\n    <li>All of my text is blurry. Yes, I&#8217;m at the native resolution. (Which was detected automatically.) I assume it&#8217;s related to ClearType (or a lack thereof?), but I can&#8217;t find anything about it?<\/li>\n    <li>I set up wireless very easily. (Well, after I found the icon in the tray.)<\/li>\n    <li>Windows is <em>obsessed<\/em> with popping little bubbles up all over my screen. I guess it&#8217;s understandable since it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve run it, though I&#8217;d be a lot happier if it didn&#8217;t offer to check GMail and my blogs for phishing attacks. Repeatedly.<\/li>\n    <li>How do I get a command prompt? (No, I&#8217;m serious. Is there a &#8216;cmd&#8217; in Vista?)<\/li>\n    <li>The default desktop has <em>one<\/em> icon, the Recycle Bin. I like this uncluttered look.<\/li>\n    <li>Now I see what everyone was complaining about. Much like it&#8217;s obsessed with bubble notifications, it&#8217;s <em>obsessed<\/em> with asking me if I want to give permission to various things. The problem is that I&#8217;ll double-click on the clock in the system tray to set it up to sync to NTP, and get asked if I want to allow access to the clock. Yes, I do; that&#8217;s why I just tried to change it. Where do I turn this off?<\/li>\n    <li>Linux and Windows XP let me use the far-right of my touchpad as a scroll wheel. This feature is missing in Vista?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s too soon for a thorough review, but I am a fan of first-impressions things. And my first impressions are so-so. Probably a big improvement over XP, but with quite a few irritations.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! I got the <em>upgrade<\/em>, which means you have to install it over an existing Windows thing. Except it was on another hard drive, so I&#8217;m using the well-known quirk where you can install it without a license key, and then &#8220;upgrade&#8221; that to the exact same version and put in a license key.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I graduated from college, I lost my license to use Office*, and had various other key things shut off. I was given an opportunity to purchase Vista (Business Edition) Upgrade and Office 2007 (Enterprise) for $20 each, so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/14\/vista-5-minute-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}