9th April 2007

Windows Vista device detection

posted in Technology, Vista |

Overall this seems like a step backwards. I’ve got 4 “unknown” devices on my MacBook at the moment and its really hard to tell what they are supposed to be (which makes it hard to go searching for the right drivers).

Also on Thursday at Ignite I tried to put in a USB key. It couldn’t find the drivers. For a USB key!!! I had to manually point the search path to c:\windows and then it worked fine, but a novice would have been totally lost. I also have a standard Microsoft optical mouse at home that for some reason always pops up driver install messages and can’t find its drivers on the Internet or otherwise.

You would think this stuff would be the bread and butter basics of an OS, but it does show some of how we got off track with Vista. I think what most people really want out of their OS is to just work rock solid with the latest hardware and somehow we (and I’ll include myself in the blame) got too focused on changing the world. Changing the world can be a great thing, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be intertwined with the OS release itself.

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  1. 1 On January 18th, 2008, Tom said:

    I would say that “Getting off Track” with Vista is a very polite way of saying it. I have been using computers for 30 years and pc’s for the last 20. We do a lot of in-house software developemnt so I think that we are pretty savy computer wise. The interface changes to Vista were a major step backwards in in useability, and in one fell swoop wiped out the knowledge and experience that users had acquired in XP. I pay my staff to develop products for our clients, not to learn new operating systems that have no decernable benifit. If I wanted my staff to learn a new operating system I would have moved over to Unix. Needless to say, we dont allow any Vista systems into our company. And, you dont even want to get me started on Office 2007!

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