Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Apr 2007 19:20 UTC, submitted by netpython
Comparisons, conjecture, and controversy. Microsoft's new operating system is here, but is it ready for primetime? We spent 30 days with Windows Vista to see if it's worth the leap or if Microsoft should go back to the drawing board.
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2005-10-11
I helped out a friend buying a new PC.
It had Windows Vista Home Premium installed on it. (I'm a XP user myself most of the time).
Now, before I continue let's say I have a lot of experience with Microsoft Products. I'm a Microsoft/Citrix engineer for about 7/8 years now so I know all the ins and outs of the OS, mostly Windows 2003 and XP but that shouldn't make a very big difference.
I was never interested in trying Vista. I did see some screenshots and read the stories and that alone was enough for me to keep running XP.
Well, this became my first experience with my friend's pc and it wasn't a very good one. First, like the article says I got bloody annoyed by UAC that popped up everytime. It did even popup when I just wanted to start regular programs that check for an update during startup, crazy.
Eventually I had to edit the registry to disable it!
But that wasn't all. He had two LCD screens connected to his Vista PC which I wanted to setup, so I go into the control panel and expect to see a display icon with all the options I need, wrong. They seperated every freakin setting! Backgroud, theme, style, display etc. you have 1000 more options than Windows XP had (same with the soundcard and network setup btw) only now it's seperated in different control panel applets and this, including that very annoying UAC should make Vista more secure and userfriendly???
Man, I wanted to change some things and I needed a lot of time searching for the options to change it, even needed to edit the registry, and these are all things my mom should know how to do if you believe MS?
I like XP, it's good looking, lightning fast, very stable, but what a joke Vista is. I'll stick to XP for the next few years I can tell you that.
Edited 2007-04-05 21:31