Thursday, June 14, 2007
Windows Vista, the saga continues...
Ok, so I found out that many of my problems stem not from Windows Vista sucking to an extent that I have not seen many things suck before but from Microsoft doing even more sucking than I have felt that Windows Vista was doing.
Why do I say this? My issues stem from the fact that I have Vista Home Premium installed on my machine and not Business, Enterprise or Ultimate. The ability to access the security policy control panel has been deactivated in VHP and can not be activated or installed. Instead the security changes that would be accessible through it are only able to be altered through editing of registry keys.
I have also found out that another "feature" that has been crippled is the ability to rollback a file's version in Vista. Vista stores backup copies of individual files in the same way that XP stored backups of the system configuration. This allows you to get a past version of any file you have edited back. It also takes up disk space. This has been deactivated in the lower three versions of Vista (Basic, Home Basic and Home Premium. They should be called Sucks the most, Sucks more, and Sucks badly). Deactivated? Well, not so much. Hidden. Apparently if you use the temporary "trial upgrade" thing you can access past copies of files you had edited before you did the trial upgrade. This means that while I can not access these past versions of files at the moment they are being stored on my hard drive and taking up space.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of suckage, I am sure.
I understand offering versions of the software with limitations and fewer features than more expensive versions of the software would have. However, security features shouldn't be one of the things that is turned off, and there shouldn't be disk space used up for a function that you can not access.
This little marketing scheme by MS doesn't make me want to spend more money and upgrade my OS to the Ultimate version. Instead, it makes me want to run as far away from Microsoft as I possibly can.
Microsoft, you have created another Linux user. Good job.
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