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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 22 November 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 3 Starting with Microsoft and Vista, my early impression is that this operating system has to a certain degree been unfairly maligned. If I was writing this in February after trying out Vista on a 1GB box with a Pentium 4 processor, I would be talking about throwing my review copy of Vista Ultimate in the garbage. However, nine months later on a 4GB box with a 256MB GPU and a 2.4GHz Core 2 DUo processor, and after improved driver support and numerous bug fixes, Vista doesn't look all that bad. In fact, unlike numerous naysayers my first impression is that Vista seems to be a considerable improvement on XP - I was never a fan of XP anyway The Vista user interface seems pretty spiffy - don't give a damn about Aero transparency but love the windows in a row, love the gadgets on side toolbar and love the responsiveness of the system. Yes, believe it or not on a hefty box like mine the performance of Vista is quite nippy - better than XP and Windows Home Serrver. And hasn't that always been the name of the game for Microsoft and Intel? You keep Moore's law chugging along and we'll provide the software to use up the bandwidth. What's more, I had no trouble at all transferring all of my Windows files and applications from XP to Vista. They all worked fine. So what don't I like about Vista? It's still Windows, which means it's full of bugs and prone to infection from just about every piece of malicious code written in the history of computing. I'm actually running a very good anti-virus package at the moment called AVG. It consumes far less system resources than most of the others but it's still a system overhead I have to run (one that costs money) just to keep my computer realtively safe from unwelcome intruders. CONTINUED |
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