Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st May 2008 00:21 UTC
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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from the Microsoft point of view, "killer" features like desktop search or security make vista so slow. Then, who can explain to me how OSX or linux live with the same features, and are still responsive on less powerful machines?
That is exactly what I was wondering about..There is several background search utilities in Linux, like f.ex Beagle which of course does use some CPU time but it doesn't seem to need even nearly as much as the Microsoft implementation. And it's easy to turn Beagle off. What I don't know if Windows Search allows you to select which folders to index either.
Desktop bling and effects? Linux (I talk about Linux only cos I haven't tried BSDs or such) atleast does allow those effects with really good performance even on my aging 1.4ghz P4-mobile laptop with 512MB RAM.
So, on that laptop I have restricted user-accounts, high-performance desktop bling and background search with Linux, but Vista fails to run on it even sufficiently well even if I disable background search and bling effects? I just don't know what it is that makes Vista such a resource hog. I mean, I like XP, it is nowadays really stable and fast and work really well in most situations, Vista seems such a huge step backwards compared to it..