I find great irony in the fact that there are so many people who ‘know’ that Vista is an evil, vile operating system that should be burned at the stake at the first chance that we get. Those same people that claim that they will only give up XP when it is pried from their cold dead hand.
I know that Vista takes a little getting used to, it has more security than any other Microsoft OS (just what people screamed about), the ‘eye-candy’ interface uses up more resources than it probably needs to (those features can be turned off or don’t even exist on some versions of Vista), and there are still driver and compatibility issues that can lead to some instability (these are being reduced greatly as vendors update their software to work with the features of the new operating system).
All in all I have grown to like the features that Vista brings. I admit that I am spoiled with the version of Vista Ultimate that I have, but even so, in the business world there are a number of features that make Vista a more attractive operating system. The foremost of these is the security that I mentioned above.
So before end this sermon, let me remind all what it was like when XP was released; in an article written in 2005 entitled ‘Windows XP Adoption Rates Slow’, Ed Oswald points out that “many are eagerly awaiting Microsoft’s next version of Windows, known as Longhorn”, mainly because of how many people hated the new features of XP. So before you condemn Vista to the same level of hell reserved for 98ME, give it a try yourself and make your own decision.
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I have Vista on 3 computers one of which my wife uses and we have no complaints. I might have one with HP for not updating the drivers for the scanner I have and forcing me to buy a new scanner however I know people that had the same issue with XP and printers when XP was released. Vista is good and to the others they will have to get over it I guess.
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