Computer manufacturers are now beginning to see first-hand the general disillusionment with Windows Vista.
Some time ago, the network managers at Nottingham University wrote to the student community that "When correctly configured and patched there are no significant vulnerabilities in Microsoft products". Hah.
I wrote a few months back about web engineers worldwide fighting to stop the advance of the false notion that using getElementById shortcuts is a good idea.
I was ready for the idea that Vista might change Microsoft's reputation for 'security'. Naturally, I wasn't entirely surprised to find that this will probably not be the case, as Vista is showing up to be more or less just as insecure as XP was.
I've been following with great interest a series of articles centred around what has become one of the most ubiquitous features of modern OS design: the shutdown dialog.
Whilst Microsoft fights to make Vista as cross-compatible with other stuff as it has to in order to avoid various lawsuits, inter-department communication apparently failed when it came to ensuring that the brand new media player would work with the brand new operating system.
Ever since I installed Windows Live Messenger a month or so ago I've been unable to add contacts or be added as a contact by others. For a while I was modest enough to assume people had just lied about adding me, but then some more serious requirements for adding people came up and I realised that there was a problem.
Now that IE7 has been distributed via Windows Update to thousands upon thousands of Microsoft customers and fanboys alike all over the world, we're seeing a whole bunch of sites with layouts that break because they are written with hacks and workarounds designed for IE6.
Now, do I upgrade to Firefox v2.0 or not?
I'm getting a little bored with a certain unnamed corporation using its leverage to manipulate its customers, but grateful that it's at least getting noticed for its current policy of not limiting Critical Updates material to actual critical updates.
