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Vista Bluescreen

Eengstro — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:06:31 +0000

I witnessed my first Windows Vista bluescreen today. The box was in the middle of being put into Sleep mode when it was awakened again, and blam: a bluescreen. (It could be said that we had a vista of a bluescreen…) Unfortunately, the bluescreen didn’t stay up long enough for me to actually read it and see what crashed; the machine rebooted on its own almost immediately.

Hopefully these won’t be common.

Microsoft Word 2007: first impression

Eengstro — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:27:11 +0000

In addition to Windows Vista, we also have Microsoft Office 2007. I fired up Word, and my first thought was:

Where’s the damn menu bar?!

Hmmm. Obviously I need to play around with it more.

Windows Vista: first impressions

Eengstro — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:16:45 +0000

We just got a new box in the house, with Windows Vista Business installed, and I’ve gotten to play around with it a bit.

First impression: Too Much.

Too much eye candy. Sure, Aero is pretty — very pretty — but there’s so much going on that it’s distracting. Visual Overload. Fortunately, there’s a so-called “Classic” theme, which makes Vista looks like Windows 2000. Ahh, much better. (I do the same thing in Windows XP.)

There seems to be too much code as well, since Vista makes an Intel Core 2 Duo 7200 machine feel no faster than my three-year-old Athlon 64 3200+ running Windows XP. Hmmm.

On the other hand, my lovely wife said, “wow!” when she first saw Flip 3D, so maybe there’s something to that marketing campaign after all…