Here's a 3rd person that feels the same as Michael and Joseph.
Yes, its prettier, and more secure. And I am running most all
the programs I had on my XP. It also gave me a chance to clean
the attic so to speak and get rid of stuff I don't use anymore
because I have better programs to do the same things. I upgraded
to a totally new Dell PC that had Vista Home Premium preloaded.
SO I did not experience all the problems most everyone has written
about. The system configured up to my DSL automatically, Window Mail
did not give me any trouble during reconnection to my BellSouth email
account(s). I do not like Window Mail, I normally use Thunderbird
for all my email communications, but WMail is usable. IE7 is a joke
as far as I am concerned, but it is more secure and appears to be
better at getting places and doing things than IE6 ever thought of
being.
I do not like the Vista User Account popup window about permissions.
You would think that once you have granted permission for a program
to run that Vista would remember you doing that (shades of ZoneAlarm).
Course its only doing that on 2 programs, a Windows Wallpaper Changer,
that a MicroSoft programmer wrote, and Firefox v2.0, and it only started
that when I installed the Micromedia Flash addon driver. And I did not
like having to replace either my Epson Photo R200 printer, or HP4570c
scanner, because they did not want to write new interfaces for there
6 year old technology.
But all in all I am pleased with Vista. The only thing that would
and could make it more secure is to require all installs to be run
from the master Administrator account, not a user defined with admin
privileges. Much the same as Unix and the *root* account.
As for comparing OS speed, I can not do that! My Dell e521 PC is a
AMD Athlon X2 +4600 w/2GB. And it is a another world away from
the P4 2.2mHz machine running XP. So yes its faster, but only
if you insist on comparing Peaches and Prunes.
Joseph said:
I'm with Michael. I don't think it as new, more like an XP upgrade.
I got Vista Home Basic only because it was the only way to get a new PC,
cheap. Whatever the reason for Vista, the PCs its bundled with have
dropped in price 20% or more, I recently got this laptop for $300 new,
since it wasn't selling with Vista. In the past 4 months since Vista's
release, my PC store has an entire shelf with XP Pro and Home restocked
that they had removed previously to force people to buy Vista.
It gave me the incentive to test it. I've been able to run some really
old software with compatibility mode, albeit most XP, even Win95 software
[ e.g. WSFtp95] run without issue.
Heck, I even run DOS software, despite no one really saying so, in DOS
mode.
I have zero luck with Citrix client though, although there is a Vista
beta out now.
But for most, they love it!
Frank
There is absolutely *nothing* revolutionary or
even that innovative about Vista. If that hurts the fanboys' feelings,
so be it. Cry, cry, cry, baby. I can't help them.
Vista is just an operating system- it works, its stable, I can do lots
of stuff on it. But, I'm not doing anything on it that I wasn't
already doing on XP.
Oh, of course Vista is here to say, that's sort of foolish to suggest
otherwise. As long as Microsoft has a monopoly, whatever they put out
will be what most folks use. That'll change, not overnight, but
change it will.
Take care,
Michael
