Information Technology Pros Debate Windows Vista

An anonymous reader writes "As a follow-on to John Welch's widely read review arguing that Mac OS X is superior to Vista, Information Week is running the first in a weeklong series of roundtables where a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista. What's been your experience with Vista? More importantly, do you think it will ever gain traction among corporate users, or is its glitzy Aero interface destined to make it mainly a consumer OS?"

Re:sounds like a good discussion

[Tackhead]

> > Information Week is running the first in a weeklong series of roundtables where a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista.
>
> Anyone with a job title like that is sure to be a Master Debater.

...for values of "have a serious technical debate" approaching "walk into a bar".

Sounds like

[Anonymous Coward]

Vista is just not ready for the desktop

It's hard posting to Slashdot from Vista...

[Anonymous Coward]

You are trying to post the same damn Vista joke for the 10,000 time.
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Showstopper

[jareth-0205-mobile]

You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means...

What is missing here?

[UnknowingFool]

a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista.

I can't tell if that is the setup or the punchline.

Sounds like a joke to me

[drsmithy]

Information Week is running the first in a weeklong series of roundtables where a programmer, networking consultant, and 3 IT managers have a serious technical debate on the pros and cons of Vista.

The Aristocrats !

Re:sounds like a good discussion

[v1]

remove a syllable and you'll have it right

My Experience with Vista has been great!

[Hawthorne01]

It looks just *awesome* on the shelf in the local computer store.

I'm sure if I actually bought and installed it, though, I'd have a different opinion...

Re:Been using it for 3 days now

[93 Escort Wagon]

I've been running Vista Ultimate for 3 days now.

Oh, so you're the one!

Techically superior

[Anonymous Coward]

Arguing that Vista or Microsoft products in general are not always the crap they're made out to be is never going to work on a website that pictures Bill Gates as a borg and doesn't render correctly at all in IE7. However, for those of you who actually care about facts instead of clinging to some crazy notion that blind evangelism is going to lead everybody realize the glory of Steve Jobs and OS X try reading up on what's new in Vista.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windo ws_Vista [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_ne w_to_Windows_Vista [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_f eatures_new_to_Windows_Vista [wikipedia.org]

Turns out the changes really are substantial. The large number of brilliant developers working on Vista for 5 years created a good deal more than just a pretty interface. Read up on it, how is OS X superior? It's not. Can OS X catch up? Probably not.

OS X may have been gaining ground on XP, but Vista buries it.

Re:It's hard posting to Slashdot from Vista...

[alexandreracine]

You are trying to post the same damn Vista joke for the 10,000 time.
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User Account Control - Windows needs your permission to continue.

You want to Allow or Cancel. This can be very dangerous and can compromise your system. To continue, type an administrator password, and then click OK.

Re:Fixed

[totally bogus dude]

Hmm, you are indeed correct. Thank you for that. I guess it never clicked that "End Task" and "End Process" were two different functions.