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Windows Vista - Still Fresh After 19 Months?
MyStuff writes "ZDNet blog Hardware 2.0 looks at the effect of having used Windows Vista for over 18 months. It Windows Vista the indispensable upgrade that Microsoft wants you to think it is? Writer Kingsley-Hughes says 'Having been using Vista for over 18 months I believe that it's a huge improvement over XP and even though I still use XP I find that I miss many of the features that Vista offers.' Just the same, he goes on, 'I wouldn't call any of the changes earth-shattering. When I'm using XP systems I miss some of the features but not so much that they push me to upgrade any faster.' He then goes on to give a feature-by-feature breakdown of all of the improvements Vista has over XP, and what long-term use of these features can net." A possibly useful guide for gamers or administrators thinking about upgrading sometime soon.
I installed Mandriva on my old laptop. And despite having nice and all-so-cool laptop from company I prefer to use Linux.
Vista? I have all those fancy effects on Mandriva with compiz, plus it runs bloody good on old hardware. I tried Vista on new hardware and was quite disappointed. There's really nothing new and exciting. And paying so much cash for a privilege of having XP SP3 with built in WindowsBlinds? No thanks.
"an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often, quite often, picturesque liar" - Mark Twain
Either you drink the kool-aid or die of dehydration.
"It Windows Vista the indispensable upgrade that Microsoft wants you to think it is?"
Did this pass the Word grammar checker?
Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.
Vista is not ready and may never be due to DRM nonsense. Check out this review of both Mepis and Vista. DRM breaks what hardware they managed to get drivers working for.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
So what was MS working on all those years?
DRM, funded by all those suckers who bought into code assurance plans thinking they would get an upgrade to Vista ... three or four years ago. Vista outright obsoletes half of the world's computers and won't work well on 94% of them. Promising upgrades to newer software for hardware three years ago has to be one of the biggest scams ever. The magnitude of that scam will only be fully apparent as people realize how bad the DRM is.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Don't you think theres a problem citing a Linux site as fact when it concerns a Microsoft OS?
No, the author is honest. Don't project M$ "get the facts" type reports onto the free software world where there's little incentive to do more than report what you see. The results surprised the author as much as anyone else.
Crying, "It's not fair, they are all out to get Microsoft" and sticking your head in the sand is not going to teach you anything new.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.