Vista and the beginning of new windows series (What do you think about it?)

VISTA is youngest sister of XP, and if in OS-TAN Family where XP always potrayed as girl with big boobs and always eating and eating without stop or getting fat, Vista will even worst. Yes, this new OS provide you better GUI, security etc. But this one will eat alot of resource, bigger than XP can eat. Brand new VGA from X1000 series (ATi) or 6200 series or above (Nvidia), and 1 giga of ram. My god, you need to buy new hardware or even brand new PC for Vista (~_~). But if you got the money, it's okay then, ahahahahaha....

They took some time to launch windows vista unlike their previous operating systems which they launched very urgently and had to bear the brunt from the users and media of the number of bugs that has been found and rectified later. This time, they issued a lot more copy of beta versions for free to many people to test drive it before launching. This time also they did listen to people who used vista and rectified the mistakes. Let's see how it goes this time around with vista, whether it is a new begining or the same old story.

vista is cool.. jst check microsofts site for the same.. and know what i am talking about..

well it sounds like im gonna have to get a new computer to handle vista but im gonna wait till they work all the kinks out of it but it sounds nice

I think vista is a great opening from microsoft to face the future of the computer operating system and software. Vista will be the opening of the future of windows. I think they made a great start with released vista. Of course vista need more higher computer. Because if requirement of vista is the same with windows xp, for what they make vista if the feature was the same with xp, maybe just use xp either. To get better performance and visualization make it better than xp. It was hard to make the requirement the same with xp if you want to make it better than xp. Like graphics, if you want to get better graphics you must use better graphic card.

I will still have the good old windows xp running. Anyways my system cant support Vista with all of its heavy requirements. I think it will be as good as the predecessors but the industries will still be using the free linuxes. By the way hakers have already found entry into Vista

vista is cool.. jst check microsofts site for the same.. and know what i am talking about..

I've tried Vista on my laptop it is good but still not stable so I returned to XP again, the first thing all my laptop drivers doesn't work with vista so I can't load my graphic card or sound second it is very heavy it takes time to open third it still has bugs anyone you need a super device to work with vista and also all the antivirus softwares can't work with Vista they published new ones for Vista for example I use kaspersky when I tried to put on Vista it said this version is not supported so I opened the net and searched for antivirus that is going to work with Vista. Thanks for your good article.

Its cool but it _ucks in terms of hardware resources it requires 512 MB ram is not cheap, its xpensive, similarly u got to have 3d graphics card at lesa 128 MB if u realy want to enjoy it

Windows Vista clearly is not a great new performer when it comes to executing single applications at maximum speed. Although we only looked at the 32-bit version of Windows Vista Enterprise, we do not expect the 64-bit edition to be faster (at least not with 32-bit applications). Overall, applications performed as expected, or executed slightly slower than under Windows XP. The synthetic benchmarks such as Everest, PCMark05 or Sandra 2007 show that differences are non-existent on a component level. We also found some programs that refused to work, and others that seem to cause problems at first but eventually ran properly. In any case, we recommend watching for Vista-related software upgrades from your software vendors. There are some programs that showed deeply disappointing performance. Unreal Tournament 2004 and the professional graphics benchmarking suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the OpenGL graphics library under Windows Vista. This is something we expected, and we clearly advise against replacing Windows XP with Windows Vista if you need to run professional graphics applications. Both ATI and Nvidia will offer OpenGL support in upcoming driver releases, but it remains to be seen if and how other graphics vendors or Microsoft may offer it. We are disappointed that CPU-intensive applications such as video transcoding with XviD (DVD to XviD MPEG4) or the MainConcept H.264 Encoder performed 18% to nearly 24% slower in our standard benchmark scenarios. Both benchmarks finished much quicker under Windows XP. There aren't newer versions available, and we don't see immediate solutions to this issue. There is good news as well: we did not find evidence that Windows Vista's new and fancy AeroGlass interface consumes more energy than Windows XP's 2D desktop. Although our measurements indicate a 1 W increase in power draw at the plug, this is too little of a difference to draw any conclusions. Obviously, the requirements for displaying all elements in 3D, rotating and moving them aren't enough to heat up graphics processors. This might also be a result of Windows Vista's more advanced implementation of ACPI 2.0 (and parts of 3.0), which allows the control of power of system components separately. Our hopes that Vista might be able to speed up applications are gone. First tests with 64-bit editions result in numbers similar to our 32-bit results, and we believe it's safe to say that users looking for more raw performance will be disappointed with Vista. Vista is the better Windows, because it behaves better, because it looks better and because it feels better. But it cannot perform better than Windows XP. Is this a K.O. for Windows Vista in the enthusiast space? If you really need your PC to finish huge encoding, transcoding or rendering workloads within a defined time frame, yes, it is. Don't do it; stay with XP. But as long as you don't need to finish workloads in record time, we believe it makes sense to consider these three bullet points: * Vista runs considerably more services and thus has to spend somewhat more resources on itself. Indexing, connectivity and usability don't come for free. * There is a lot of CPU performance available today! We've got really fast dual core processors, and even faster quad cores will hit the market by the middle of the year. Even though you will lose application performance by upgrading to Vista, today's hardware is much faster than yesterday's, and tomorrow's processors will clearly leap even further ahead. * No new Windows release has been able to offer more application performance than its predecessor. Although application performance has had this drawback, the new Windows Vista performance features SuperFetch and ReadyDrive help to make Vista feel faster and smoother than Windows XP.

I built myself a whole new system and intalled Vista on it on the day of release (30th Jan). I had a few issues at the start because it wouldn't recognise the motherboard drivers, but that was easily fixed with a bit of fiddling around. I have 1gb of RAM, but that really is the minumum you should have, I'm running out just playing mahjonng and having Window Media Player 11 running. I plan to upgrade to 2gb as soon as funds allow. My NVidia GeForce 6600GT Graphics Card works fine with vista, no issues whatsoever. And Vista still runs all my older games. It does use up considerably more hard drive space than XP (about 15GB), but if you have a proper hard drive it is really not that much. My biggest issue I had was Vista did not recognise my ISDN modem drivers, but that was fixed when I ran the setup program in "backwards compatibility mode" for windows XP. (thank goodness for backward compatibilty!) The visuals on Vista are crisp and clear, and looks a whole new generation than XP. Everything is so easy to find and configure. My wireless network was up and running within no time. I can really recommend going out and buying Vista. But make sure you get either "Home Premium" or "Ultimate". I got the Business version, which doesn't have Media Centre, so I will upgrade to ultimate ASAP. Vista is as good or if not better than what Microsoft are making it out to be. I love Vista, and plan on upgrading all my other PC's to it in the near future.