Пытливые умы, которым недостаточно просто заплатить за лицензию и спать спокойно провели небольшое исследование того, насколько стабильно работает новая, регулярно обновляемая операционная система Windows Vista. У тестеров уже возник целый ряд вопросов относительно странного поведения операционной системы на тестовом компьютере, однако ни один из представителей Microsoft им не ответил.
Недавно к списку вопросов добавилось ещё одно интересное проявление «характера» новой ОС. На машине с аптаймом операционной системы 100 часов утилита Sidebar – элемент рабочего стола, навязываемый Microsoft – умудрилась вызвать 98 миллионов ошибок доступа к памяти (в среднем это около 275 ошибок в секунду) и «съесть» 40 минут процессорного времени. Это поразительно, учитывая, что единственной функцией Sidebar на тестовой машине было лишь отображение текущего времени. Теперь остаётся дождаться реакции Microsoft — в виде официального ответа или (лучше) очередной заплатки на операционную систему.
Dear Microsoft, Vista doesn't work properly
An open letter to the Vole
By Andrew Thomas: Monday, 08 October 2007, 11:20 AM The Inquirer (eng)
EVERYONE HATES VISTA except me and I'm starting to have my doubts. I've been running it for almost a year and there are a number of issues on which I would appreciate a bit of clarification from Microsoft. I could Google for answers to my questions, but to be honest, I can't face the prospect of wading through a morass of spittle-flecked conspiracy theories to find the answers.
So, Microsoft, here's some of the things I'd like you to explain. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I'd really appreciate your help.
The search indexer is, I'm sure, a really cool idea. But I don't do many searches and I'm getting increasingly peed off with my hard disk constantly thrashing so I'd like to turn it off. I really would.
It appears that the indexer, despite claims to the contrary, reindexes everything each time it runs rather than just new or modified files. With an archive of emails going back 20 years or so, that's quite a lot of files and quite a lot of annoying disk activity.
I've stopped the service, unchecked the indexer box in control panel and removed every folder from indexer's list. Why then, does the indexing service start itself a few seconds after I kill the process in Task Manager? It shouldn't be running at all, because I've marked it as disabled. And then I discover that a bunch of folders have mysteriously added themselves to the list of things to index.
This cannot be right. I would like Microsoft to explain what I'm doing wrong.
Being a clever sort of chap, I thought I'd try renaming the executables that run indexing. They live in the System32 folder. And here's my second question for the folks at Redmond: Why am I forbidden to rename files in any folder beneath the Windows root? It's my machine, I paid for it and I don't like being told my administrator account is denied access to it.
What I dislike even more is finding that I can't even rename these files from the copy of XP I have in another partition on the same machine. Something appears to have changed in XP that I didn't ask to be changed. This cannot be right, I must be doing something wrong. Could Microsoft explain what it is? I'm sure it's very simple and I'm just being a silly old Hector.
And here's another odd thing. Every couple of days, Word 2003 decides that I'd really like curly quotes and turns them back on for me. Now, call me old-fashioned, but my personal choice for my software on my machine is that I want ordinary quotes. Again, I'm obviously doing something daft and I'd really appreciate some help from Seattle.
There are a couple of other things that don't appear to behave as they should - setting individual folder layouts in Explorer, or asking each folder to open in its own window, are blissfully ignored, for example. But it's the idea that the machine knows what's best for me that I really hate and I'd like to hear what MS' take on the situation is.
What's really worrying is that if I don't receive a satisfactory reply from Redmond, I'll have no option than to agree with Charlie on the awfulness of Vista - and we couldn't have that, could we?
