Windows vista should have had an antivirus program built in. now it's not anticompetitive cuz vista already has a 2 way firewall and antispyware. What do ya'll think?
Windows vista should have had an antivirus program built in. now it's not anticompetitive cuz vista already has a 2 way firewall and antispyware. What do ya'll think?
I've tried to get Vista Ultimate up and running via the upgrade route ($150) from XP on 2 Wintel machines. There were so many functions not working, e.g. internet connection was impossible, I never even got to worrying about lack of built in virus protection. After lots of reading on various decent Windows forums, it seems that everyone, regardless of machine type (Sony, HP, Dell etc) has given up trying to upgrade from XP. You either buy a new unit with a clean installed copy of Vista or partition the hard drive on the used unit and clean install a $399 full copy of Vista Ultimate in the new partition, then deal with all the clean install problems like driver incompatability, power management not working correctly, functon keys not functioning, etc.
Windows vista should have had an antivirus program built in. now it's not anticompetitive cuz vista already has a 2 way firewall and antispyware. What do ya'll think?
I'm buying an OS. I don't see what virus protection has to do with core function of OS?
In this case it should come with MS Office for productivity, OriginLab for data analysis, Halo for gaming...... and the list goes on.
I hate all of the apps that MS, Apple, and others bundle with their OSs. First they want me to spend my money of stuff I don't need and then spend my time removing the stuff I don't need!
I am contemplating putting Vista on my Mac Pro, I still don't know if I want to take that leap though. My Mac Pro runs flawless right now, I don't know what's going to happen if Windows finds its way onto my machine lol
Demonstrate a personal computer operating system guaranteed to be virus-free.
C) Admit you don't know what you are talking about.
Chucker,
Thankfully, you post to this forum.
Since this is yet another Vista thread, could you please give us your assessment of Vista ? I would like to hear some informed opinion on this OS. Thanks.
and while on the vista subject... i had a chance to play with a copy of vista that someone installed on an office computer.
bah. that's my assesment of vista. it's windows xp, just more complicated, they change some things to another place, add some eye candy here and there, and bam, suddenly you're doing the same as before, just slower.
Vista is missing a lot. But you know what chaps my A$$?
Now I get to rant because I use it everyday to do my job.
On Dell laptops at least, if you have it joined to a domain and have it spanned to a larger monitor; when you lock your computer to go to the potty or something....everytime you unlock it the stupid thing forgets the monitor settings and you have to go back and do the damn thing all over again.
Vista is missing a lot. But you know what chaps my A$$?
Now I get to rant because I use it everyday to do my job.
On Dell laptops at least, if you have it joined to a domain and have it spanned to a larger monitor; when you lock your computer to go to the potty or something....everytime you unlock it the stupid thing forgets the monitor settings and you have to go back and do the damn thing all over again.
Its a know bug....WTF its not rocket science.
well you're "lucky"... we couldn't get our copy of vista to join our company domain. this is something we do everyday with everyone's PCs that run win2k and winxp... how messed up is that. well, whaddaya expect. it's been out since the last day of january, i guess it's part of the windows way.
well you're "lucky"... we couldn't get our copy of vista to join our company domain. this is something we do everyday with everyone's PCs that run win2k and winxp... how messed up is that. well, whaddaya expect. it's been out since the last day of january, i guess it's part of the windows way.
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Windows vista should have had an antivirus program built in. now it's not anticompetitive cuz vista already has a 2 way firewall and antispyware. What do ya'll think?
I've tried to get Vista Ultimate up and running via the upgrade route ($150) from XP on 2 Wintel machines. There were so many functions not working, e.g. internet connection was impossible, I never even got to worrying about lack of built in virus protection. After lots of reading on various decent Windows forums, it seems that everyone, regardless of machine type (Sony, HP, Dell etc) has given up trying to upgrade from XP. You either buy a new unit with a clean installed copy of Vista or partition the hard drive on the used unit and clean install a $399 full copy of Vista Ultimate in the new partition, then deal with all the clean install problems like driver incompatability, power management not working correctly, functon keys not functioning, etc.
Windows vista should have had an antivirus program built in. now it's not anticompetitive cuz vista already has a 2 way firewall and antispyware. What do ya'll think?
I'm buying an OS. I don't see what virus protection has to do with core function of OS?
In this case it should come with MS Office for productivity, OriginLab for data analysis, Halo for gaming...... and the list goes on.
I hate all of the apps that MS, Apple, and others bundle with their OSs. First they want me to spend my money of stuff I don't need and then spend my time removing the stuff I don't need!
I think Vista is missing the basic architecture it should have so that antivirus software isn't necessary.
A) Elaborate.
C) Admit you don't know what you are talking about.
A) Elaborate.
C) Admit you don't know what you are talking about.
Chucker,
Thankfully, you post to this forum.
Since this is yet another Vista thread, could you please give us your assessment of Vista ? I would like to hear some informed opinion on this OS. Thanks.
A) Elaborate.
C) Admit you don't know what you are talking about.
A) Vista is still quite prone to viruses.
C) Sorry, can't do that.
A) Vista is still quite prone to viruses.
C) Sorry, can't do that.
Well said. And I love
bah. that's my assesment of vista. it's windows xp, just more complicated, they change some things to another place, add some eye candy here and there, and bam, suddenly you're doing the same as before, just slower.
Now I get to rant because I use it everyday to do my job.
On Dell laptops at least, if you have it joined to a domain and have it spanned to a larger monitor; when you lock your computer to go to the potty or something....everytime you unlock it the stupid thing forgets the monitor settings and you have to go back and do the damn thing all over again.
Its a know bug....WTF its not rocket science.
Vista is missing a lot. But you know what chaps my A$$?
Now I get to rant because I use it everyday to do my job.
On Dell laptops at least, if you have it joined to a domain and have it spanned to a larger monitor; when you lock your computer to go to the potty or something....everytime you unlock it the stupid thing forgets the monitor settings and you have to go back and do the damn thing all over again.
Its a know bug....WTF its not rocket science.
well you're "lucky"... we couldn't get our copy of vista to join our company domain. this is something we do everyday with everyone's PCs that run win2k and winxp... how messed up is that. well, whaddaya expect. it's been out since the last day of january, i guess it's part of the windows way.
well you're "lucky"... we couldn't get our copy of vista to join our company domain. this is something we do everyday with everyone's PCs that run win2k and winxp... how messed up is that. well, whaddaya expect. it's been out since the last day of january, i guess it's part of the windows way.
wow havn'et run into that problem yet.