It finally happened, I had to give up my old system with my beloved XP operating system. The new computer has all the greatest bells and whistles, but it also has the dreaded OS (Operating system) Vista, which should be called a NOS (Network Operating system), since under the hood it looks more like a server than a traditional OS. Since you have to grant rights to everything, just so the programs can run. You can create users, and grant them permissions to login to your server, err, I mean computer, to share files, etc... Everything about this Vista, seems backwards, it tries to look like a Mac, but has menus and features that remind me of Windows NT.
This is the third day in with the server OS, err, computer OS, and frankly, Microsoft - can go piss off!
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While I agree it is quite the change and definately more Win NT Server than anything else, I just decided not to fight it. Treat it like an NT Server, don't expect anything to be easy or work the way you want it to and it will save tons of aggravation. My hope is that once everything is set up and working with all the right permissions, it will take care of itself, but God Forbid if there is an issue, no technical support will be able to help. Reformat...
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