BeWare's Profile

"I don’t really understand what XP/Vista users are supposed to be" Users who still need their mummy to hold their hand. 'Vista' may indeed be the best version of 'Windows' ever released. Yes, it might even be better than 'OS X', but we will never know if we can't get past the 5 million message boxes that constantly ask 'do you really want to do this? - do you really want to do that? - would you like Bill Gates to come to your home and wipe your a*se for you? Windows 'Vista' equals Windows Nanny. Deliberately targeted at users who are incapable of and/or unwilling to taking responsibility for their own actions. "Windows is easy to understand, Mac Fanatics are impossible" 'Mac fanatic' - far from it. Charles Simonyi fanatic - absolutely! After 20 years of using MacOS, Unix, Win3.11, Win95, Win98, WinXP, OS X; why should I be content to continue to use something that was conceived in the 1970's. Forced to choose between the two, OS X 10.4 is probably the closet to Charles Simonyi's visionary concept, but still nowhere near what even Bill Gates concedes is the future of the desktop. Whether Steve Jobs has the balls to adopt Simonyi's concept in 'Leopard' and potentially risk alienating 50% of the current Mac user base - at least in the short term - remains to be seen. But then I also wonder how many of those potentially disgruntled Mac users also boldly claimed they would never use an Intel Mac. I concede it is extremely wishful aspirations on my part, but if Apple's recent statements are a cryptic clue as to what Apple is planning to unveil in 'Leopard', then the past 30 years really was only just the beginning - and photocopier sales in Redmond will skyrocket. 'Mac fanatics' might be impossible now, but if for once in my life my instincts are right, Mac fanatics may soon become absolutely intolerable. "Vista’s innards haven’t really changed that much from XP. The registry is still there for all the young ones to exploit. I can see kernel rootkits being spawned for Vista right now." No, I totally disagree. I believe it takes something like 2 or 3 rather minor entries in the registry to totally disable Vista's activation routine and not a great deal more to disable DRM. Much more simpler than XP. But wait there's more... As of beta 2 - not certain if MS have finally realized how stupid this is - Vista is deliberately designed to crash and automatically reboot upon any unauthorized attempt to access the kernel. Script kiddies heaven. Create nothing more than a simple well executed macro and you can completely destroy any Vista PC you want. An absolute godsend for power supply and hard disk manufacturers. "Meanwhile PC users go for months without ever having problems." Yeah I would really like to meet one of these rather elusive people. Certainly I've never been so lucky in the 13 or so years I've been using 'Windows'. Though I did prove once that XP is rock solid and secure as long as you don't install anything on it, but that sort of defeats the purpose. In fairness, I will concede XP SP2 has been reasonably stable from an OS perspective. Rarely have I ever had a total system crash since SP2 unless I'm running - yes you guessed it - MS OfficeXP SP3. And that in itself amounts to 4 or 5 times in a week. In the end though it really isn't about whether 'Vista' or 'OS X' is better, it's about whether you are willing to accept being labeled as an 'anti-social anarchist intent on destruction of the corporate world and therefore humanity as we know it' which is exactly what Microsoft's 'Vista' licensing and DRM systems assume you are.