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The Vista Bashing Bandwagon

Monday, September 11th, 2006
at 9:20pm

It’s not often I find myself agreeing with The Inquirer. Microsoft Vista is still a mess:

Vista’s still a mess. It’s meant to be at release candidate stage, yet vendor’s are struggling to provide sufficient driver support, features are still missing or not yet complete, and its performance compared to XP is still poor. Nowadays hardware is cheap, and it would be sufficiently acceptable to upgrade in anticipation of a wonderfully revolutionary OS. Unfortunately Vista provides little to no benefit for end users compared to that of the previous version of Windows, released five years ago in 2001.

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. I think we’re all hoping for dramatic (and I mean, DRAMATIC) improvements between RC1, RC2, and Gold.

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Chris Pirillo on Vista - Mac Forums

September 14th, 2006
at 10:01pm

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Darcey

September 16th, 2006
at 8:43pm

I would of been amazed if the Inquirer had said anything other than ‘it sux’. Everyone I no personally loves it including myself. There are still a few drivers that are not yet up to standard which can cause sluggish performance and audio glitches, but for me it’s been fantastic. I’ve had no stability problems and the performance has been amazing and smooth (way better than XP).

I can’t think of any version of windows that had 100% driver support before it was released.

MFinn

October 2nd, 2006
at 11:03am

>performance has been amazing and smooth (way better than >XP).

I’ve run these OS’s side by side with equally confiquired
boxes and XP wins hands down. Xp is much snappier.
No contest which one is the fastest OS at this point of
Vista development. Its the new WindowsME !!

Dennis

Is Vista Underrated? Depends on Who — and Why — You Ask. « Graceful Flavor

November 27th, 2006
at 7:55am

[...] Much of the hate Vista has received thus far has been from the blogosphere at large, and that’s fine and well. It’s fun to fight over OSX Tiger/Leopard versus Vista. It’s picking your fighter and rooting him on. For the tech elite and those technically engaged enough to care, the nuances of each system matter, for the gods live in the details. To those people — and I count myself among them — Vista might deserve some of the criticism it’s getting, even though some of it might be purely academic and have little real-world impact. Other critics are scathing but accurate, hoping, in the end, to get MS to make a better product. [...]

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June 21st, 2007
at 12:57pm

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