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0.5 stars
"Vista, best thing since ME!"
Pros: None that come to mind.
Cons: Lets say there is a lot.
Summary: Vista has an 11GB install size, compared to 2GB with XP it should be 5 times better or more secure right? Wrong. Vista is really the worst thing since ME. I don't know about you, but I like to try out new software every once and a while. When I tried to do just that, Vista's new brain child - UAC(User Access Control) pops up everytime and asks me whether or not I want to continue. I tried to find the fastest way to disable it. It took me an hour of searching Google and MSDN where they hid the answer very well, to try to find out how to disable this annoyance. Once I found out how and disabled it, half of the software I tryed to install did not work. Then once I had all my software intalled and was ready to give Vista a fair evaluation, I found myself saying wow this looks exactly like XP with a Vista Theme on it. After a closer examination I found exactly that, Windows XP Core, Vista Theme. 11GB of fluff. Windows Update took away a need for ever having a new OS but as all companies do, MS needs more money and we need our toys, and so Vista was born.
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yes Vista has an XP core, but if you do your homework vista was suppose to have never been released in the first place, what we should have is a finished product of windows 7 which is an enchanced version of vista with a new filing system, new partioning that enhances the windows security (which everyone was crying for after XP) vista is the ME of 98, but it was a solution to help make our computer safer from hackers and for parental control over children.
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I'm getting ready to buy a new laptop and I will tell you as a former IT Consultant, I was very hesitant to get a laptop with VISTA. I"m getting a laptop with XP.
Thanks for your review!
jeff359w -
It took you an hour to find "User Account Control," located on the "User Accounts" page?
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My reaction when using (home premium)was, as you said, this is ME with new eyecandy. Have got rid of it and am back to XP
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First of all, everyone wants to jump on the Vista is bad bandwagon. It isn't...I did the Beta test, used Enterprise and it was enough for me to purchase Ultimate. It works great, looks great and it is stable. My main complaint is that it should be much cheaper, considering Windows 7x is due out in 2009.
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For starters, Windows Vista is different to Windows XP, right down to its kernel. I am highly curious as to how you "examined closer" to determine just how Vista has been written. I would also imagine that you are basing this opinion on a beta version of Windows which is not stated as perfect or error free. Most opinions that are based on the retail version are fine opinions, for the most part, but those who take a drastic negative approach towards the software show two things:
1) You hardly give the product enough time after final release before finding a 'bad' side to it and assume that this isn't some sort of "initial setup" phase but rather, something that will persist forever.
It's not. The User Access Control feature is not constantly asking for permission unless you are in a non-administrator account. If Microsoft didn't create this for standard user accounts which required SOME administrative control, you would complain. When Microsoft develops a security feature that asks for permission from the user instead of flat-out denying everything and forcing you to unnecessarily use a full administrators account to perform a task, you would complain.
2) If your opinions are based on prolonged use of the program, it is definitely based on a beta version. Beta software is never perfect nor complete and will always contain flaws, incompatibilities, errors and faults to some degree or level. This is called standard testing and requires heavily on user feedback.
If company's provide beta software to people such as yourself who do nothing but complain about how things don't work, instead of reporting the problem so it can be fixed, of course the program will still have those issues. Unfortunately for them, beta testing requires honest, unbiased and genuine testers to use the product and report the right feedback.
So please, next time you choose to be negative, ensure that you're testing the right phase of the product. Outdated information based on a beta version does not help legitimate CNET users who are trying to decide if this product is the right choice for them. It also creates unfair negativity towards a company who may be doing all they can to provide the best software possible.
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Windows ME sucked it was the biggest waste opf money I have ever had. I think everyone is basing the opinion of VISTA on the RC versions. HELLO ANYBODY HOME!!!!! THOSE ARE BETA VERSIONS.
THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FLAWED AND BUGGY, THEY ARE FOR EVALUATION. SO THAT MICROSOFT COULD MAKE THE FINAL VERSION BETTER THEY NEED FEEEDBACK.
STOP SLAMMING THEM FOR WINDOWS VISTA. I THINK EVERYONE THAT SLAMMED VISTA HAS A CASE OF OPERATOR ERROR. I USED IT ON MY LAPTOP FOR A MONTH AND A HALF WITH ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEMS, THE OPNLY REASON I STILL DON'T HAVE IT ON MY LAPTOP IS BECAUSE I COULD NOT USE MY PRINTERS.
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