I can, hand over heart, say that I prefer XP over Vista. Ok, Vista is new still has bugs etc that the Service Packs will try to fix, but I remember when XP first came out, and it was still more reliable.
I've used Vista at work, and also for a brief peroiod of time when I got it as a loan from a friend. And each time it drove me to dispair.
Not from intial install, where everything looks nice and shiny, and the Aero effect can look well, but it's when you want to use it as an Operating System that problems start happening.
As has been mentioned 345657678 times here, the UAC really is...there is no emoticon that conveys the sense of frustration this causes. The idea is good, but the execution is terrible.
It still cant do a proper remove program either. While this lies at the door of app developers for putting files into abstract places, it still wouldn't have dont Microsoft any harm to help find those files.
The registry needs to go. A piece of technology that has been around for what? The last 15 years? It's unreliable, has security flaws (see the latest IE problem where an emergency patch was released) and is so big now that its intial advatage (central depoistory)is moot.
It does have stability issues, especially as you begin to install more apps and run them concurently. I have PS3 and Illustrator, both which run fone on my lower specced Mac, but crucify my Dell.
I feel for Vista. I see what they tried to do, but it just flopped. It was hoped that with the ever increasing trend of people getting faster and better hardware, that they could inject all the hunger of Vista to a platform and not get hit on performace issues. But all that HW was primed for XP. So peoples hardware crumbled under the added bloat. Using DirectX10 as a candy stick was a really low go also.
Windows is a victim of its own success. It has tried to cater to everyones needs due to its popularity, and it has fallen between the stools. People who wanted an Os to use seamlessly with XP were frustrated by the hardware cost, and higer users were handicapped by the waiting for developers to catch up with the new awkward release.
Bill himself has veily said that Vista was an unmitigated disaster. Windows programmers/employees are now being sent emails and notes to "minimise and reduce". I think it was on Digest where it was reported that XP is still outselling Vista for commercial use.
Overall, I think Vista summs up what has happened to the Windows platform over all these years. It ideas are good, its heart is there, but it cant do everything when it is handicapped by all the junk that it has to pull around for the last two decades. It was simply bloated to an over size balloon that sits there and explodes every so often...
I have hopes for Windows 7. Heres for an XML based distributed system, and a new, clean playing field. Sure, older dinosaurs will snap over that their system is no longer supported, but these are the exact same people that will bemoan that the "New OS" doesnt perform well at all, and that it wasen't like OS-1.
It's time that everyone on the most popular OS in the world were brought to the exact same start line and made to line up in a good order, rather then running by randomly and bitching that the guy in front has a head start. Sure, maybe MS will lose market percentage, but I, for one, would gladly use a MS product if I thought it was what I was looking for. At the moment, OS X is what that product is. If, in 3 years or whenever it comes out, Windows 7 is that product, I'll be more then willing to get it.
Not that Microsoft is ever going to do that, though. Which is a shame...
I've used Vista at work, and also for a brief peroiod of time when I got it as a loan from a friend. And each time it drove me to dispair.
Not from intial install, where everything looks nice and shiny, and the Aero effect can look well, but it's when you want to use it as an Operating System that problems start happening.
As has been mentioned 345657678 times here, the UAC really is...there is no emoticon that conveys the sense of frustration this causes. The idea is good, but the execution is terrible.
It still cant do a proper remove program either. While this lies at the door of app developers for putting files into abstract places, it still wouldn't have dont Microsoft any harm to help find those files.
The registry needs to go. A piece of technology that has been around for what? The last 15 years? It's unreliable, has security flaws (see the latest IE problem where an emergency patch was released) and is so big now that its intial advatage (central depoistory)is moot.
It does have stability issues, especially as you begin to install more apps and run them concurently. I have PS3 and Illustrator, both which run fone on my lower specced Mac, but crucify my Dell.
I feel for Vista. I see what they tried to do, but it just flopped. It was hoped that with the ever increasing trend of people getting faster and better hardware, that they could inject all the hunger of Vista to a platform and not get hit on performace issues. But all that HW was primed for XP. So peoples hardware crumbled under the added bloat. Using DirectX10 as a candy stick was a really low go also.
Windows is a victim of its own success. It has tried to cater to everyones needs due to its popularity, and it has fallen between the stools. People who wanted an Os to use seamlessly with XP were frustrated by the hardware cost, and higer users were handicapped by the waiting for developers to catch up with the new awkward release.
Bill himself has veily said that Vista was an unmitigated disaster. Windows programmers/employees are now being sent emails and notes to "minimise and reduce". I think it was on Digest where it was reported that XP is still outselling Vista for commercial use.
Overall, I think Vista summs up what has happened to the Windows platform over all these years. It ideas are good, its heart is there, but it cant do everything when it is handicapped by all the junk that it has to pull around for the last two decades. It was simply bloated to an over size balloon that sits there and explodes every so often...
I have hopes for Windows 7. Heres for an XML based distributed system, and a new, clean playing field. Sure, older dinosaurs will snap over that their system is no longer supported, but these are the exact same people that will bemoan that the "New OS" doesnt perform well at all, and that it wasen't like OS-1.
It's time that everyone on the most popular OS in the world were brought to the exact same start line and made to line up in a good order, rather then running by randomly and bitching that the guy in front has a head start. Sure, maybe MS will lose market percentage, but I, for one, would gladly use a MS product if I thought it was what I was looking for. At the moment, OS X is what that product is. If, in 3 years or whenever it comes out, Windows 7 is that product, I'll be more then willing to get it.
Not that Microsoft is ever going to do that, though. Which is a shame...
