I have to say, I WAS excited about Vitsa, but now I feel its all just a *(GHASP)* money grabbing scheme.
This new Vista will obviously be slower than XP, expensive (if your like me and won't tolerate the vanilla home, I'd have to have ultimate or something), NOT have WinFS and a load of other technilogical breakthroughs it was suposed to have.
The thing has been pushed back and scaled back so many times... Its only an updated server 2003 SP1 core, with a new GUI - and it installs faster-
Personally, I don't really care about the GUI anyways. I spend my time doing other things than thinking to myself, "ohh What a nice XP skin I have." Who really cares about widgets anyways? Been there done that...
They say, "New Memory handling features for increased performance!".. yeah right, that why its takes 1G min.
You know that some of the more powerful (I mean enthusiast) Pc's only rank a 3/5 on Vista's scale? What, do I need a super computer to have 'access' to Vista's speed? I just bought a DX9 video card... You know I'll have to buy a new DX10 card for the 'new' features?
HA
what a joke...
To me:
XP doesn't crash, it's seasoned (almost to the 3rd SP), its faster than Vista, now more secure, what else do I really want in an OS?
Now you might think, thats what they said about 98SE when XP came out. 98SE crashed, didn't have NTFS - in fact no NT technology at all - It was bascially DOS with a GUI. To me, XP was a breakthrough. It is a billion times better than 98. Vista, now, is a XP 1.9. At least from what I hear from Microsoft. I have yet to SEE any benifits.
Ms basically stopped adding features that could have been on XP and put them in Vista instead. Things like .Net, Areo, Security, Widgets, and blah blah, XP is already capable of. Many things MS says XP could not do (in the enterpise), and Vista would do - guess what, I did it - with XP.
Unfortunatly for Microsoft's busines model, to continue making an income they have to produce new software regularly. But you can only reinvent the wheel so many times. Perhaps that is why they are moving into more subscrption based services.
Vista though.. Will have to prove some kind of ground shattering worth to me before I think it's up to MS hype.
Topic: What Does "Windows Vista Capable" Mean? (Read 2123 times)