OT: vista cool feature!

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At Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:54:58AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Kenneth Brody was observed uttering:
> The rest of the blob talks about programs (some of them free) that
> add this functionality to XP.
> 
> Some of the names are Colibri, Launchy, and SlickRun.
> 
> I have never used them, so I can only comment about the fact that
> posts on this blog point out that installing Vista just for this
> single feature is overkill.

And will suck all but the best current hardware dry for the top versions,
from what I've heard.  Of course, I know what -one- of John's systems is,
and there's not much worry there.  But why feed power to the OS when it
could go to applications?

I'm still trying to figure out the use for the feature itself.  From how
that weblog described it, it's really not any better than my method of:

Start->P->U->up,up,up,left,enter

Takes me to Programs, then Utilities, and I navigate from there with the
keyboard and/or letters.  I could hit C twice to get rid of the three up
arrows in my case.

Same principle, the new one is just a bit more refined.  A bit.  Not much,
from the description.

It's like data entry.  When you know where your stuff is, you don't even
blink after a while.  And I do have to laugh at how innovative they made it
sound.  All I can say is, "Five years, and that's the best you have to show
for your efforts?"  Every video I've seen shows either in earnest or by
spoof that Vista is basically a Microsoft rip of OS/X...and a sub-par one
at that, as you won't get the iLife/iMovie/iWhatevers with it.  I'd rather
get a Mac and have better security at that point--except for the one thing
that keeps me from linux as a desktop:  Games.

Not that I've gotten to play more than 10hrs in 2 months.  :(  For me,
that's almost as bad as quitting cold turkey.

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