<tt>linux-user-bounces@egr.msu.edu wrote on 11/17/2007 12:11:19 PM: > On Nov 17, 2007 8:24 AM, Michael Rudas <audiotech50@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows > > Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much > > processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago > > (Office 2000)." > > My Mom recently bought a brand-new Lenovo desktop machine at my > recommendation. It's a great machine for the price except for one > nagging little detail: It comes with Vista. She knows her way around > Windows well enough but with Vista, however, she had a really > difficult time navigating the interface, installing applications and > drivers, and working with the system in general. Booting and opening > many applications sometimes took minutes. Bringing the system back > from suspend took 30 seconds. > > I installed Windows XP for her and now the machine works great in > every way. Even some hardware in the machine didn't work properly in > Vista but was fine on XP. I blame these issues more on Lenovo, of > course, because they're the ones shipping an OS that's not made for > the kind of hardware they're shipping. But still, I can't imagine why > Vista performs so poorly when the major differences that I can see > between it and XP are merely a rearranged UI and even more DRM than > before. </tt> <tt>What I really hate about Vista (and generally all M$ updates) are the needless UI changes that you mention.   Think of the worlwide productivity </tt> <tt>lost with just one of those changes: they decided to rename the "add/remove programs" icon in the control panel to something else.  How many tech support people have wasted a minute looking for the familiar add/remove button in Vista?  I can only imagine it adds up to thousands of hours by now.      </tt> <tt>--- Mark Szidik, CIO Michigan Library Consortium 1407 Rensen Street, Suite 1,  Lansing, MI 48910-3657 Ph:800.530.9019 x117   Fax:517.492.3881 Ph:517.492.3817 MLC - Partnerships. Solutions. Excellence.</tt>