My personal Review of Windows Vista

I have a full version of Vista Ultimate, and was very disappointed. From a tech. stand point, I don't even want to deal with it. I agree, given a few version up grades, a year or so, maybe, but too many people are going to jump on it right now sad to say. Word of advise, buy stocks in memory companies ! lol. Either that or hard drive companies. The space an install takes is going to rquire alot of home computer users to up grade both memory and hard drive space. Btw, what kind of a system are you runnin it on ? Even with their reqs, I've got it running on a s low as a 750 mgz, with 384 mgs of memory. Will load it on something slower to see how far down you can go.

No wonder your computer is running slow, Windows Vista is a seriously resource hungry system. I have a 3 Ghz Pentium 4 processor and I Gb of DDR RAM, so I can run the operating system quite comfortably. The direction that Windows appears to be taking is to add as many extra utilities as possible to save people from having to install third party software. This is a mistake in my opinion, because they are unlikely to add features that will rival the third party alternatives. I would rather use Nero than Vista's burning software or Power DVD rather than Windows Media Player, so when they start to add vast amounts of programs that I will not use then I am simply wasting drive space. Windows XP took about 1.5 Gb from a clean install, so the 7 Gb for Vista is not justified.

Haha, sorry, that was a stupid post on my part ! What I meant was, I've loaded Vista on Several different systems i have, starting with a P4 3.4 running 4 gigs of ram ( I know, XP only recognizes 2.75), then switched it to a 1.6 Pentium, then down to a 750mhz door stop. I know what they call for minimum requirnments, I just want to see how far down it will actually go. I did the same with XP Pro, it was suprising how little it will actually run on. It ( Vista) did run my programs very slowly on my 3.4 which suprised the heck out of me. Although i do run a lot of 3d rendeing programs that can kill cpu'd, XP has never even slowed down. (do i loose points for my stupid post? lol) Totally agree with Microsofts error in adding too many utilities. The first thing i would reccomend is killing them off too.

If you have such reservations, which is both understandable and prudent, then the solution is to make a complete backup of your Windows XP installation before installing the Windows Vista upgrade. This will give you the opportunity to try out the system for yourself and if you decide against it you can simply restore the previous system.

Doesn't matter, we will all be running it eventually. Lots of people were saying the same thing about windows XP. It's going to come pre-loaded on all new PC's in about a week. I've been running Vista RC1 on my system for a few months. It's got a couple of bugs to work out, but it should be clean by release. I went to the CES in vegas last week and almost all of the thousands of computers there were running Vista for all sorts of applications. It's been no secret that Vista was set to be a leap forward and therefore would require up to date hardware. If you don't need Vista right now to do what you always do on hardware that's a couple of years old, then don't upgrade. When it's time for your new system, it will be on there.

is that true that Vista has a lot of security holes? i heared that some hackers report it to the microsoft.. anybody know bout that??

It's very beautiful, but you haven't installed it yet? Yes, i agree, it has eye candy, but what good is an operating system that slows down your productivity. The idea was for computers to speed up our work. Give it a try and leyt us knwo what you think. Thanks !

Do you refer to windows Milenium?I haven't saw any operating system who was more bad the windows milenium.I have worked with it and didn't liked it a bit.Why you don't use windows XP or 2000 ?

I see your point. Windows Me works well enough for me and I don't feel the need to change it. When does the customer decide to stop chasing after every new technology? I am in a comfort zone I realize that someday I will have to accept newer tecnology. Waiting until they get all the bugs out never seems to happen...they are always sending out updates.

Interesting respsonces for sure. To clarify a couple of issues. I would think anyone in this blog has the sense to know a newer os is going to have some bugs for awhile, that doesn't need to be said again and again does it? Being in the industry gave me access to a full version of Ultimate, not a beta version. I am a die hard Windows fan, I believe in giving them a chance to fine tune Vista. The stocks in memory companies, hard drive compnies, and video card companies are going to jump. Bugs or not, Vista requires a high end system. Even a lot of the newer systems will have to be upgraded. I do not look forward to working with it. Anytime a customer is told they need upgrades, they will look at you like you're trying to rip them off and take all of their money. Since I do not build OS's myself, I don't understand all of their problems they deal with, however... What if I sold a product, only to tell you it may be a year or two before it will work right? No one else could run a buisiness this way. Don't sell a package that needs to be fixed, and isn't ready for the open market. How can you back a company selling something that doesn't quite work right? If it was me, Better Buisiness Bureau would close me down.