"Microsoft finally launches the long-awaited Windows Vista today, promising better security and improved search and claiming it will be the fastest ever adopted operating system it has released. But some users have already questioned the business benefits of upgrading to Vista, citing the relative stability and security of Windows XP and a lack of compelling features in Vista. Based on using the second beta version of Vista here are the five things to get excited about Vista for - and the five things you'll hate it for."
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Member since:2006-01-02
While it is true that many of the features the author promoted have been available to windows users (in some implementation or another) for some time, they often require additional downloads or a rather advanced familiarity with the operating system. The key here, is that in Vista, these features have been more thoroughly integrated, upon install, making them readily available for Joe User to use and enjoy. So for many, despite not technically being new, it is their perception that these features are in new. And if the features were over looked in their previous incarnation, of course a marketing department is going to exploit that so that they can refer to these features as new to media and consumers alike. Otherwise, they'd have to admit that they were there for a while, they were just badly implemented so MOST people overlooked them. Anyway, enough with my rant-like opinion.
Member since:2005-10-02
Yes yes, and it's the media who have the responsibility to point out to Average Joe, what is new and what isn't.
Just because Average Joe is in error and marketing departments in companies take advantage of this doesn't mean the media should just let it go. They should correct errors in Average Joe's perception rather than introduce errors.
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Member since:2006-04-18
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2005-10-02
...another stupid journalist who knows nothing about the functionality in NT versions since 4.0.
Desktop Search has been available since NT4 SP4 Option Pack. Nothing new here.
Built-in Diagnostic: Already available, in part through elements from MS, in part through third party applications.
More advanced help is also already available, if one knows where to look in Windows. And the more advanced functionality exist too. They are just not so obvious. The journalist knows very little about Vista and earlier Windows versions when he cannot see the difference between layout changes and actually adding new functionality.
The only new thing on page 1 is the "oomph factor". Not bad if you have a 1 GB USB key. Could be some nice caching, even when it's slower than in other OS'es using RAM directly for cache.
The 5 things one might hate about Vista don't seem to be particularly well-researched. UAC however, will probably piss off quite a few Average Joe's around the world (geeks will just turn it off).
Pretty much a disappointing and factually wrong article.
EDIT: removed the most embarrasing typo's - or perhpas nto.
Edited 2006-11-30 17:52