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Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP

Posted by kdawson on from the two-steps-back dept.

erikvlie writes "Pfeiffer Consulting released a report on User Interface Friction, comparing Windows Vista/Aero with Windows XP and Mac OS X. The report concludes that Vista/Aero is worse in terms of desktop operations, menu latency, and mouse precision than XP — which was and still is said to be a lot worse on those measures than Mac OS X. The report was independently financed. The IT-Enquirer editor has read the report and summarized the most important findings."

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  1. Aero != productivity by TinBromide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Aero was an overhaul of the interface designed to sell copies due to the "wow" factor. I don't think that pretty widgets were meant to be a productivity booster, and any article that says that you can be productive on a mac for more than the generic things and like 2-3 specialized apps has a built in bias.

    I'm still of the opinion that vista is a productivity booster only for the RIAA/MPAA and microsoft's stock.

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    1. Re:Aero != productivity by dberstein · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm a developer, a web developer. Within my daily tasks besides coding is ssh'ing to several machines, do some cvs|svn dancing, etc.

      I've switched to Mac almost a month ago. I would never, ever, return to Windows. I don't care about the UI (though it's elegant and efficient). The selling point to me is having a nice bash prompt right in front of me, and having good hardware support (I don't care it's "closed" hardware).

      I turn on my Macbook and voila! Skype is ready for me. I can video chat with my collegues while at the same enjoying the bsd heritage.

      To me Mac OS X is like Windows XP with cygwin tighly integrated minus DLL hell, registry hell and all that crap.

      Intel Macs are the best thing ever invented!

  2. Original report unavailable by eviloverlordx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At least at the time I visited the Pfeiffer site. While I'm not inclined to deny their results, it would be nice to have a little more in-depth knowledge of their methods.

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  3. Huh? by garcia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Guess what? Despite Microsoft's efforts to provide for a more fluid and agreeable interface with Vista's Aero, Pfeiffer Consulting found Vista to be even worse than Windows XP (SP2) --and of course Mac OS X. Their conclusion is backed with cold, hard research.

    Where? I don't see the in the article. All I see is that Windows Vista (which I won't ever be using unless they make me at work) sucks compared to XP SP2 and OS X. I don't see why or how they came to those conclusions.

  4. Re:Just in from bash.org by newt0311 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    now if only CMD was as good as bash and you could use it exclusively (like me). Somebody needs to do a comparison of efficiency when using a GUI (any GUI) and the terminal and see how that pans out.