Re: I must be the only one
- From: "xfile" <coucou@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:21:03 -0700
Good for you and I am happy for you and you certainly are not the only one.
After reading another round of long debate, I'd like to take the opportunity
to share what some of conflicts are all about and it's a little bit more
than the usual flaming game (e.g. people don't like Vista must not have used
it).
All these conflicts really boil down to how does one perceive a product (in
this case, a computer and operating system) and what objectives does one
wish to accomplish?
Using myself as an example, when purchasing personal belongings, I don't
always use rational decision, and most of the time, I bought it simply
because I wanted to (aren't buying things make one feels good sometime?) and
I have no problem for spending hours and days on playing with the new gear
or toy or solving all the puzzles. In fact, I enjoy it.
Now, when it comes to a business decision especially for a serious one. I
tend to go over a set of seriously defined evaluation criterions and to
suppress my personal preferences to the minimum degree. And try to
eliminate all unnecessary steps that will not help any productivity. Why?
If I don't do that, how can our company save unnecessary costs and/or
generate additional revenues for - taking care of employees and
stakeholders, a simple fact everyone can understand, right? In simple
words, it's all about return on investment whilst it's not something always
in my personal life.
The problem with Windows is that, fortunately and unfortunately, it is
widely used by both consumer and serious business entities. And it's not
too difficult to see where are the potential conflicts, right?
Some people criticized it (myself included) because we wish the product can
better serve in a business environment more than just in our living room or
as my new toy (PS: I can buy new toys only when our company is growing and
making profits). Others don't go over the same evaluation criterions (and
rightfully, no everyone has to) may not understand why and how the
criticisms were derived. In this case, you are the only one matters. As
long as you are happy, that is GREAT!!!
As almost everything else in the world, it's not a black or white, 0 or 1,
on or off kind of thing; it's how people are going to use the product, and
either side is legitimate for their feedback and opinions, and they should
be equally treated and collected by the company for how to further improve
the product to better meet both sides' needs and demands.
So instead of throwing in insults and flames, why don't we ask, what is the
primary purpose for the product (in this case, Vista and can be anything
else too) that we are going to use and also consider and respect other's
perspectives.
There is one thing that I don't quite understand after reading this
newsgroup for more than a year, and that is, What is going to hurt the
company by asking or demanding it to work even harder and to come out a even
better product? It seems to me that many people think it's a BAD thing to
do, why?
"roraniel" <roraniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ECBE4D57-F19B-41EE-8BB8-35562A49C33D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I like Vista!
After reading about the horrors of Vista for over a year I decided to take
the plunge anyway and upgrade. I have a stock Dell Inspiron 640m laptop
with
1.6GHz Dual Core Processor and 1G of memory that is labeled "Designed for
Windows XP. Windows Vista Capable."
I did a lot of research on drivers and downloaded a couple that needed to
be
updated. I also backed up all my data and did a clean install on a freshly
formated hard drive. The install went smooth.
I upgraded to Vista Ultimate and I like it! It runs smooth, the graphics
are
awesome, and the sidebar has some useful tools. I also migrated to a dock
program called RocketDock which makes my desktop very clean looking. The
only
thing I do not like is the UAC but I downloaded TweakUAC and life is good.
I have not had one single issue, crash, or conflict. I was worried about
MS
Office 2003 but that runs flawlessly as well.
Why do people have so many issues? Is it improper install? I do not
understand!
.
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