First impression of Vista

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:19:29PM -0500, ted leslie wrote:

<big snip>
>Anyways one thing stood out really bad in Vista,
>I have to assume it was the portable it was installed on, nice portable,
>BUT, I was using IE (on Vista) to get some google results, and I noticed
>that when i click the mouse into the text boxes to enter my url and
>search terms, no I-bar appeared, so i didnt think much of it at first, 
>because I wanted to get my answers about the PS3, but once i got my
>answers (or lack of), i tooled with Vista, and all though in some places
>i got a I-bar, no mater what i did in the IE browser in the URL and
>google search text box, no I-bar occured ... i could type and cursor in
>the text box, but no I-bar, which is freaky because  i dont try to type
>something into a text box until i see my I-bar flashing.
>Holy crap thats one serious freaking bug,
>I am assuming its a driver issue between the portable and Vista, but
>still,
>this shocked me. I don't think futureshop put on any other software to

This is a bug, but not a driver bug - a design team bug.  The default 
insert cursor is set to a single pixel wide, and with screen hinting that 
means that it disappears for some displays.  This is a "top 10" migration 
question for most users, and you can set the insert cursor arbitrarily
wide, if you know where to look.
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yours,

William

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