After the first few weeks Vista was out, I broke down and bought an OEM copy from newegg.com for my Shuttle (that I bring to work). As a tech, I need to know how the damn thing operates in order to assist our unfortunate subscribers who had no choice but to get Vista on their new PCs that they bought retail or the impatient ones the bought it to upgrade their existing PCs.
Personally, I think Vista's still too green for me to suggest using it. There are certainly annoying aspects to the OS, such as the beyond-crappy defragmenter, the obnoxious UAC, the DRM crap, and the fact that "Games For Windows" (Vista) games are just as unstable as older made-for-XP games. As much as I like the look of the Vista Aero interface, I turned it off to try to eek out some performance from the low-end games I'm trying to get running on this PC. I just built this Shuttle earlier this year with known Vista-compliant hardware, so I don't understand why it's so freakin' unstable. Vista by itself blue-screens once an hour. :P
There are a lot of really, yet superficially, cool things about Vista. I'm not expecting MS to drop the bag on Vista like they did WinME (which deserved it). I'm betting a lot instability will be corrected through service packs and improved HW drivers from the HW manufacturers.
I don't expect MS to care about our complaints about the DRM and licensing issues, because they're trying to make a profit and I'm sure are also getting pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Unfortunately, I'm seeing more products use the activation method of XP & Vista, which is frustrating from an end-user's standpoint.
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Date: 2007-10-02 11:06 am (UTC)Personally, I think Vista's still too green for me to suggest using it. There are certainly annoying aspects to the OS, such as the beyond-crappy defragmenter, the obnoxious UAC, the DRM crap, and the fact that "Games For Windows" (Vista) games are just as unstable as older made-for-XP games. As much as I like the look of the Vista Aero interface, I turned it off to try to eek out some performance from the low-end games I'm trying to get running on this PC. I just built this Shuttle earlier this year with known Vista-compliant hardware, so I don't understand why it's so freakin' unstable. Vista by itself blue-screens once an hour. :P
There are a lot of really, yet superficially, cool things about Vista. I'm not expecting MS to drop the bag on Vista like they did WinME (which deserved it). I'm betting a lot instability will be corrected through service packs and improved HW drivers from the HW manufacturers.
I don't expect MS to care about our complaints about the DRM and licensing issues, because they're trying to make a profit and I'm sure are also getting pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Unfortunately, I'm seeing more products use the activation method of XP & Vista, which is frustrating from an end-user's standpoint.
Yay for the 21st century.