I also run Vista 64, and it works very well. The only problem, and this is what is actually annoying people, is that it does not play particularly well with legacy programs and hardware. But really, I think even that has more to do with vendors' drivers and such, than with the actual OS. The only time I ever get rrors or crashes are times when I need to be using some old software, and I bomb out fairly regularly from video driver freeze-ups, or the software is just plain so old that it seems to get 'lost'.
im running vista ultimate on a single core laptop with 2 gig of ram. i can't see how people are saying its a resource hog, it runs smooth on my computer even when i play CoD4 or CSS.
I'm not sure you can just scoff at the people who hate vista...i mean it must be enough of a problem to have windows to release another OS so quickly...granted could just because they can now make $$$...but yea..i'm sure SP2 will address a lot of issues
This is actually old news - it was in the Chronicle (of all places) several weeks ago. This is not really a 'new OS' as much as a 'tweaked' OS that takes away most of the really annoying pop-ups that happen every time you want to install software, etc. There are in fact already several 3rd-party programs for free which essentially do the same thing. I believe Norton has one of them, if I remember the article correctly.
I ran Vista 32-bit on a desktop with 2 gigs of RAM. The only time it bogged down was when I was running a game like Supreme Commander that wanted to use 2 gigs+ of RAM. lol.
For my business I purchased Dell Vostros all equipped with Vista and soon realized none of our corporate software works on it plus the resource hogging is too much to take. I cannot believe the inefficiency tied directly into this operating system in favor of selling new pcs with faster CPUs and larger memory capacity. Reminds of the old "No one will ever need more than 637K for a personal computer". Microsoft in partnership with Intel and other vendors keep pushing the minimum requirements to operate a computer for things people have been doing for a decade like surfing the web, email, chatting, sharing videos and pictures etc...Unless you are a gamer or graphic designer type technician, you will hardly use the full potential of exponentially increasing technology. This next decade is about innovation and simplifying things to virtual machines, user-interface and custom application widgets for each individual user.
My new work PC came with Vista. It is actually pretty good. The Apple fanboys and anti windows marketing campaigns have really nailed the product. I have yet to encounter anything wrong with it and I'm running some pretty intensive work programs and data warehouse tools on it.
I just read a little about it. They have some interesting new ideas (finally) w/ the UI. The 7 version of Leopard's expose sounds pretty good, unlike Vista's attempt which is pretty useless to me. I also think if you're running a business on XP, there is absolutely no reason to jump to Vista unless you really need to take advantage of some RAM.
+1. I have a pretty old laptop. 1.6 GHz, 512 MB RAM. I had problems with my laptop last year and had to send it in for repairs. While it was in the shop, I borrowed my dad's brand new laptop with Vista. The slowdown on my dad's superior computer was very noticeable to me. It felt similar to downgrading in internet speed - very annoying when it takes longer to complete menial tasks.
Which means Microsoft will call it Windows 2011 and therefore cursing them to finally release it in late 2013. With a service pack due in January 2014.
