Six Month Vista Status
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Well, Micro$oft has had Vista out for six months now and what I’ve been seeing about it remains essentially the same as it’s been since Vista first appeared.
There is the usual complaints, that Vista is a resource hog that requires 2GB of ram a 2Ghz or better cpu and one of the more expensive high-end graphics cards in order to do all the tricks M$ has been raving about. Oh, I’ve read that it *will* run on a system that meets it’s minimum requirements, but I gather that the experience is not unlike trying to run XP Pro on a Pentium 75 with 32Mb of ram and a ega video card…. It’s possible but there’s really not any point in doing so.
Then there’s other little gems, like what is beginning to sound like a VERY long list of devices and programs that either don’t work right or just plain don’t work at all under Vista. One of the things that HAS to be bugging the guys in Redmond no end is the fact that there is an increasing number of Vista users that are “upgrading back to xp” because whatever else might be said about it, a lot more stuff worked under XP than does under Vista. Not many are going to want to use a VMware solution to run XP within Vista and get both worlds, That’s an unnecessarily expensive solution for most people.
Another annoyance of vista is something called the “User Account Control”, designed to protect against viruses and spyware that try to install themselves. Apparently it’s driving users buggy with all of the constant, many say excessive, popup windows that warn of possible threats from the Internet. It’s so bad that lots of users eventually turn it off. Only to then be nagged with even more popups that warn how dangerous it is to turn off the UAC.
Something that I don’t like about Vista (aside from all of the above), is the fact that there are so many versions of it and if you don’t shell out the big bucks for the so-called “Ultimate” version, you’re not really getting the whole package.
On the other hand, Micro$oft is actually accomplishing something good with Vista’s release. I’ve heard that the number of people and companies moving to Linux has risen sharply in the last six months.
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Tried it for a month and then promptly reformatted and went back to XP. While I did like some of the new features and the new interfaces, most of my often used programs just didn’t work, or had tons of bugs. Leave it to M to release an operating system that doesn’t work with most programs *sigh*
That doesn’t really surprize me either. It was the same kind of situation when 2000, Me, Xp and 98 were released, it’s just that it’s gotten worse with each new version until now Vista is all but unusable right out of the box.
And to make matters worse Most machines I’ve seen advertised with Vista aren’t up to it by half.