Vista, Microsoft strikes again
I have to admit, I chuckled when I read this story about Microsoft’s New operating system Vista in November of last year.
Apparently, Microsoft has been so focused on getting Zune out the door in time for the mad holiday rush that it hasn’t gotten around to supporting the player under its next-generation operating system. – AppleInsider
Now, while that issue has long since been resolved, a new one has come to light which involves digital images and metadata in Vista.
Vista Considered Harmful to Photographers | DSLRBlog
It turns out Windows Vista Destroys Photo Metadata. This news doesn’t add any incentive to upgrade.
Apparently if you tag a photo’s metadata in Vista, it destroys other important metadata used by image editing apps such as Photoshop.
Why does it not surprise me that Vista is a little hard on other people’s information? That Microsoft doesn’t appear to be respecting other people’s data standards? Surely this is a mistake, because they put out great products. (They tell me this, so it must be right.) I’m sure that it will be quickly resolved, but in the meantime, photographers might want to hesitate before switching to Vista.
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Me$$y$oft’s approach to the end user is remarkably similar to Apple’s approach: Do it our way, or else. Apple just wraps its attitude in a prettier package.
Oh, yet more of Me$$y$oft shooting itself in the foot: Me$$y$oft has touted Vista’s “security advantages” and advances (Yeh, photographers and video editors need to watch out there for Me$$y$oft’s DRM straightjacketting), but had to issue security patches almost as soon as the rollout of Vista hit the stores, AND Me$$y$oft’s OneCare product just came in dead last among 10 anti-virus products from kajor players.
Not surprising. Me$$y$oft took a moderately capable anti-spyware product from Giant and, as usual for Me$$y$oft, proceded to screw it up with mission creap add-ons, including a particularly UNcapable anti-virus engine/def-set. Typical for the company that screwed up Front Page and other softwares bought elsewhere.
But then, that seems pretty typical overall: big software company gobbles up capable small competitor and screws up the flagship product of the small competitor.
As for Me$$y$oft creating incompatibility with customers’/endusers’ existing software, nothing new to see. Par for the course. Of course, Apple’s no shining example. See the upgrade headaches fols had when OS X rolled out. backward compatibility? No such thing in the Apple world for pre-OS X apps. Screw ‘em. We’re Apple. *heh* And when a recent security hole was discovered in Quicktime? Screw 90%++ of Quicktime users (Windows users). Mac users got a smoothe patch process. Windows users got a notice that they had the most up-to-date Quicktime… even when their version was insecure and unpatched. And the patch process for those who pursued it vigorously often didn’t take without multiple repatches.
(Rotten)Apple, Me$$y$oft: about as much difference between ‘em as between the Democrappic Party and the Republican’t Party, that is, not a dime’s difference.
YMMV, of course.
Comment by David — March 7, 2007 @ 7:25 pm
I wanted to get my new computer before I was forced to have Vista on it. Even Media Center pisses me off. There’s no way that I can find to turn off auto-detect for program cd’s for instance. If I didn’t have a shitload of software that I’d have to replace I would have gotten OS-X for Intel. Microsoft appears as screwed up as FDA…
Comment by jan — March 7, 2007 @ 10:27 pm