Star Microsoft: 'Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st May 2008 00:21 UTC
Windows Vista has not exactly been a massive market success. Sales numbers might be satisfactory due to OEM agreements, but press and public reception have been terrible, and there are several recurring themes in the complaints from people. Microsoft took five of these recurring themes, and addressed them in a document called 'Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista'.
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Doing more than XP
by WorknMan on Wed 21st May 2008 01:08 UTC
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We've heard some of you say that Windows Vista runs slower than Windows XP on a given PC. So what's really happening here? First, we need to avoid comparing apples to oranges - Windows Vista is doing a lot more than Windows XP, and it requires resources to conduct these tasks.


Problem is, it's not really doing anything more that I actually care about. Of course, once you turn off windows search, UAC, and all the other crap they threw on to idiot-proof the OS, I bet it's gonna scream. On the other hand, what are you left with when all this stuff has been gutted? Windows XP v1.5?

Personally, I would rather have had tabbed folders in Explorer than 90% of the stuff they threw in. And I know there's a billion Explorer replacements (many of them free), but that's not much help when you have to remote into a client machine who only has the barebones stuff.

Windows has some really awesome software written for it (which is the main reason I use it), but damn... they really dropped the ball with Vista.

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