My Vista experience lacks big woop factor

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/29/vista_end_dream/

Microsoft have managed to cobble together a new look and feel for Windows, but a lot of folks are scratching their heads wondering what other advantages there are in upgrading your graphics card and adding another GByte of RAM? What’s the reason? Unmaintainable.

In the long years since XP was launched, Apple have come out with five major upgrades to OS X, upgrades which (dare I say it?) install with about as much effort as it takes to brush your teeth in the morning. No nightmare calls to tech-support, no sudden hardware incompatibilities, no hassle. Why hasn’t Microsoft kept up? Unmaintainable.

An interesting article, do check it out. Obviously it will depend on your user experience, however I do feel that Vista has been getting a more than expected negative press/feedback? Is Vista bad?

No, it’s actually nice, it starts up relatively quickly, the interface is smooth, but at what cost, it makes my 18 month old laptop seem underpowered, the graphics get a bit too much for it with all the settings on; and crucially it doesn’t seem to give me enough benefits for me to deploy my VISA and get myself a new IBM/Dell bad boy.

The excitement that you’d have, the I MUST HAVE WINDOWS XP now, seems to have died, even more so than ME which I actually had and thought wasn’t that bad. How Microsoft can turn this around I’m not sure, getting people to upgrade who then have a negative user experience is marginal benefit, saying to the industry you need to upgrade again is of marginal interest, Windows Vista will sell, but I suspect its more a medium term thing, you know, my computers out of disk space, well I supose I could get one with SATA drives, a new one isn’t that much…

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Microsoft have managed to cobble together a new look and feel for Windows, but a lot of folks are scratching their heads wondering what other advantages there are in upgrading your graphics card and adding another GByte of RAM? What’s the reason? Unmaintainable.

In the long years since XP was launched, Apple have come out with five major upgrades to OS X, upgrades which (dare I say it?) install with about as much effort as it takes to brush your teeth in the morning. No nightmare calls to tech-support, no sudden hardware incompatibilities, no hassle. Why hasn’t Microsoft kept up? Unmaintainable.

An interesting article, do check it out. Obviously it will depend on your user experience, however I do feel that Vista has been getting a more than expected negative press/feedback? Is Vista bad? No, it’s actually nice, it starts up relatively quickly, the interface is smooth, but at what cost, it makes my 18 month old laptop seem underpowered, the graphics get a bit too much for it with all the settings on; and crucially it doesn’t seem to give me enough benefits for me to deploy my VISA and get myself a new IBM/Dell bad boy.

The excitement that you’d have, the I MUST HAVE WINDOWS XP now, seems to have died, even more so than ME which I actually had and thought wasn’t that bad. How Microsoft can turn this around I’m not sure, getting people to upgrade who then have a negative user experience is marginal benefit, saying to the industry you need to upgrade again is of marginal interest, Windows Vista will sell, but I suspect its more a medium term thing, you know, my computers out of disk space, well I supose I could get one with SATA drives, a new one isn’t that much…