[AT] to use IE7

[Larry Goss]

There's a book from O'Reilly called "Windows Vista: The Missing 
Manual".  Take a look at it.  I've read it about three times in the 
last week and a half.  MS has not saved all the new stuff for 
Vista.  They've been incorporating much of it all along, but there 
are a whole bunch of brand new things that we've never seen 
before "all in one place".  About every other paragraph the book 
says: Just because you CAN do such-and-so doesn't mean you SHOULD.  
There are lots of security switches, lots of safeguards, etc, but 
many of them are just plain bothersome.  One of the things that the 
book says is that there are kernels of every type of software you 
would ever want in the operating system -- word processing, 
spreadsheets, photo manipulation, audio and video playback, speech 
recognition, security, video production, etc -- but that NONE of the 
features in the operating system will replace the full-blown 
software we've come to rely on in stand-alone packages.  In other 
words, you have minimal functinality with the new operating system, 
and you'll still need to install Photoshop, Acrobat, Word, Excel, 
Picasa2, Roxio or Pinnacle, and a bunch of other full-featured 
packages if you want to continue with the capabilities that you've 
been enjoying.  The bottom line of the book is: Vista isn't worth 
the effort.

YMMV

Larry

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Kevin wrote...

>I'm guessing the is you bought a new system with IE 7 and the 
others are =
>
>talking of upgrading from IE6 to IE7.
>I haven't had trouble with IE 7 either but I rarely use it for 
anything=20
>other than to connect to the "mothership"=20
>------------------snipo
>I was at Ccity buying some RAM for an older computer couple week 
ago. =
>And overheard one of the sales reps, saying to a customer.  You 
will =
>have IE 7 on this whenever you plug it in, anb free upgrade to 
Vista W.
>Anyway he was telling the potential customer, not to use IE7 nor 
Vista =
>windows.
>Is why I ask George what brand is his new PC ?  Inquireing minds 
want to =
>know !  We looked at pc here and there and ended up just getting 
one at =
>wajjy world that ha 2G RAM. In a year or two it will be outdated 
and =
>need another one anyways
>I heard it thru the grapevine ?
>
>ironman
>K  Mosier
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