Re: How workable is Vista?

"MC" <for.address.look@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Notice that although almost everybody is saying Vista is awful, they don't
agree at all about what's awful about it.


The unzipping of files is now intolerably slow, OK not the OS but rather an
application running on it, but it's still bundled with the Vista experience.

I think Vista-bashing has become a fad. If you know anything about OS
architecture, read up on it. You'll see that Vista corrects some of the
main problems with XP, including inability to prioritize I/O.


I agree I don't like the OS bashing and I really do like XP and Vista a lot,
so credit where it's due.

One thing I really like is that Vista is ready to respond to mouse clicks
almost the moment it boots up; I don't have to wait for all the startup
applications to finish before I can get responses to anything I do. XP
was notorious for sitting around 2 or 3 minutes with little things still
starting up, not letting you do anything. With Vista, the startup apps
may take the same 2 or 3 minutes but you can go ahead and get started
doing your work.


No, I sill have to wait for Vista although it does seem faster than my XP
machine, but then it should be with 4x the RAM.

Vista has a really major security improvement. Even when running as
administrator, you have to give explicit permission to change the system
configuration. This is like "sudo" in UNIX. It protects you from
malware. Contrary to those Mac ads, it is NOT a pest. If you see those
prompts every day, something is wrong. I see them about once a month.

I see them most days and find them a little frustrating but you quickly get
used to it, so no real bad there.

I do not think Vista should be judged by how well it runs the software of
10 years ago. Programs written for Windows NT, 2000, and XP all run just
fine. Programs written for Windows 95 require compatibility mode.
Unfortunately, lots of programmers have been writing Windows 95 software
and selling it to XP users.

Of course, the embedded systems community is atavistic. There are things
in Microchip MPLAB, for instance, that aren't fully compatible with
Windows 95 file naming, much less anything later.


I triple boot my machine with Vista, XP and Fedora. Got XP to support some
older apps and Fedora more as a new attempt at getting to grips with Linux.
Don't really use Fedora much though apart from booting in now and again to
get all the latest updates which are certainly much more frequent and larger
in sixe than the XP or Vista updates!

Somebody also mentioned open office, I tried that a year ago and it kinda
looked ok at first, but the more I used it the more inadequate I found it.
I couldn't even create captions and references to those captions in the WP
app so gave up as it made it useless for writing any sort of report.
MSOffice is still way better than anything else I've seen and in my view for
my business is well worth the money.

--
DaveN


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