Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Dec 2006 23:35 UTC
After my previous short first impressions 'review' of Windows Vista Build 6000, the final build, I promised you a full review which would look a bit deeper into the system, focussing on less obvious matters than appearance alone. Since there are so many new features in Windows Vista, it is very easy to lose track of them. Hence, this review will follow (where possible) a much linked-to page on Wikipedia: Features new to Windows Vista.
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If we look to the engineering structure of the windows vista final we could find that It is really and noticeably slow. This will change IMO in the upcoming months as the patches arrive and fix the bugs and performance issues it has right now.
On the same hardware I use for testing OSX 10.4.8 beated vista in some areas with 4x speed. This is not the case when OSX was at 10.4.2.
But on the other hand even if Vista is to solve a lot of the security holes that plagued the previous versions, there are other problems that It introduced; like performance (linux now can laugh at Vista), the bother of their licensing, and the price that is a rip off, like there is no tomorrow.
Beside all of that in the Computing world, the OS is not the only story to concentrate on when you wish a cool computing environment but other devices are as much important as the OS (HDD redundancy, laser color printing, Fiber channel 4GBps connection to your HDD arrays, and the Robotic Tape system, redundancy of RAM and PSUs and other components); so I cannot change the OS just for a promised security advancements, I need alot of other reasons to upgrade, especially taking into the account the irritability of the OS to simple administrative changes like installing a new HDD or a new motherboard.