Comments on: Windows Vista: One Year Later

by: rabiuls

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:25:36 +0000

Hello,
How is the quality of windows (any version) if it were free of cost?

by: Johnathon Page

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:32:28 +0000

Vista All Round,
From what i can see there are a few different views on Vista, there are the people who got coned into buying one of those “Vista Compatible” PC’s, Those who spent a little more money and got the 64bit PC’s and the linux Crowed.
The ones who got coned well your stuffed, Vista is going to be the worst thing out for you, I’ld say downgrade to XP,
The ones with 64bit PC’s Vista still won’t be a shinning hourse but it will be the same for you as what XP was,
Then the linux crowed, well there will be those who accept Microsoft as the compitition and those who will do anything to bewittle Microsoft. Now for my personal experence. I have two Vista pc’s one is a 64bit laptop, the other is a 3ghz desktop with 512mb ram. The laptop does the basic things, Surf the net, run word ect. it won’t run my games from my Win98 pc but nore with xp. Then the desktop, well, this wont network (i have tryed every thing) ok it will but straingly only for the last week, it struggles with IE, Word well good luck and media player that’s just random. overall the laptop outperforms the desktop but it’s much more powerfull and is desiged for vista. if your cheap go xp if you want fand dangle things go vista. And get back to linux guy’s. Yes it’s much easyer to use. but then you guys know how linux works, some dont.

by: John Howell

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:29:29 +0000

Upgrade and compatibility:
Comes down to the software you want to run. I’m a senior systems engineer, I need secure consoles, virus free operating environments, good tools for Web development and network monitoring. For me Linux fits the bill and I’ve even got some of the Windows junkies at work hooked (one is now sitting exams for sco)
However, my Father-In-Law wanted to edit HD videos shot on his pro-sumer video gear and make DVD’s. He wasn’t really familiar with any particular OS, so I could have set him up with anything. In the end the PC I built for him had some devices that were not supported under XP, so I wnet with Vista Home Premium for him. Vista istelf is runing really well, but it has takent nearly a year for all of the video editing suites he uses to work properly because of compatibility with the firewire drivers and DVD burner etc. However all of the video editing software is much easier to use than anything I could find in Linux.
So in the end horses for courses.
I still haven’t had to deal with a single Vista machine for work though, none of the corporate clients I have are even interested in evaluating it on their desktops yet.

by: poet57

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:10:45 +0000

As I mentioned in my reader letter a year ago, Vista is a bless for GNU/Linux. Anyone who is still at Microsoft’s O.S. is a fool.
I am not agree that linux is not a multimedia tool. The guy who wrote this never have seen a movie since titanic nor the many Penguins who apear from nowhere on the screen nowadays. All hints that it is made with the help of Linux.
Any movie is now made with Linux. Your home movie can also being made under Linux. Sometimes you need to search for the appropriate drivers. But it isn’t impossible and this with a remarkable quality. Thanks to the absence of copy-protection.
Vista dissappoints on every level. The first service pack is already there. A second will follow. And our former applications need all to be rewritten…or you can better stay with XP.
No, give me Linux and my games from Loki software are still running on the latest release of Linux.
Something I cannot say from Windows 95 OR LATER on VISTA…

by: calagan

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:04:57 +0000

Vista SP1, which just got RTM, was supposed to be Vista’s savior -ridding us of all this sluggishness and annoyances- was a big disappointment for me. I haven’t noticed any performance improvement at all and my wireless got broken.

Thanks to VMWare’s greatness, you can use Linux (I’m a big fan of Kubuntu) as a main environment and use XP in a VM for those remaining few task you cannot do in Linux.

As far as media watching, I reckon that Vista’s Media Center is the best looking, but there are excellent alternatives: I’m quite happy with my Mac mini with Front Row and the PS3’s media center capabilities are getting better and better, especially with PlayTV coming this spring.

by: luisguer

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:53:59 +0000

Just installed Vista today at my office desktop. It took very long (4 CD’s, then downloading dozens if not a hundred patches, etc.).

Then I downloaded an evaluation version of WinRar, which worked OK save that the Help file, designed for older Windows systems, did not work with Vista! (talking about back compatibility ….).

OpenOffice and Thunderbird were downloaded and installed with no problems.

Finding a Time Zone patch for Vista took me at least an hour, as the help in MS site doesn’t help much ….

In any case, the evaluation Vista made of my computer was “2.0″, that is, that the computer was in the limits of being capable of using Vista. And it is a Pentium 4 over 3GHz with 2GB RAM and an 80GB HD.

As a result of this experience I am really considering going to Linux when I replace other old OS’s in our small office (1 server now running NT4, some 10 computers running Win 98, ME, XP and now Vista).

Which distribution would be the best for the work stations (common office work, most of it can be done with OpenOffice, which is being used by some of our employees in the Windows environment)?

And which distribution would be recommended for the “server” (must run a mail server program and a fax server program, of the type that converts the faxes in images and distributes them via email)?

Tks 4 any comment.

by: thembinkosi

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:27:44 +0000

I think all those hining and crying about Vista simply do not know how to configure/run the OS. I did it with CentOS and told anyone who cared to listen that “It is a horrible piece of shit”. I was wrong; I simply did not know how to… Same with the windows haters. I work fine with windows vista cause i know how. Get real. Don’t blame anyone for your ignorance.

by: Don Juan

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:00:05 +0000

I have not tried Vista on my desktop, but preinstalled on my newer Dell laptop. It blows XP out of the water. It’s just as fast and has way more built-in convenience features. Oh, and it looks much better. As I said, I can’t speak for desktops, but using a laptop without Vista is a waste of my time.

by: mcarson

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:07:09 +0000

Windows Vista for me was a savior. Simply put, on my Athlon X2 4200+ with 2gb of ram, it simply works. For my gaming needs, for my multimedia needs, for my programming needs (Visual Studio 2008). It all works. Simply put.

I do enjoy Linux. I use it daily. I do most of my network programming in Linux. However, that’s just because I do not know WinSock. I am teaching myself, but this is what happens when you have a standard system (Linux as servers for most of the time).

M$ does not have a death wish. M$ is realizing that most computers come with some really nice hardware, and for the common home user, the one that checks their email and surfs the web, utilizing that hardware is not a big problem. The problem lies with the new interface, in which people don’t want to learn anything new.

This is why Linux never made it as a desktop OS. People do not want to learn something new. Now, they are forced to learn something new, and because most office computers are so old, many Admins are deploying Linux as a replacement.

IMO, Windows Vista will become better than XP. If you all remember, EVERYONE said the same horror stories about Windows XP. Like I said, people don’t like change….

by: Travis N

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:09:09 +0000

I was upgraded to vista at work a few months ago, and for the apps I use there, I have had no problems.

Having said that, the PCLinuxOS virtual machine I installed inside vista runs faster than vista runs nativly using the some of the exact same applications.