by Puller

Created on: February 27, 2008   Last Updated: May 28, 2011

Vista is not ready for the faint of heart. Although we all drool over its glassy smooth looks and effects, I think we all need to hold back from our instincts. The instincts of the tech consumer is to buy the latest and greatest, as the industry just keeps pumping new things out at us.

The new trend for new websites is to attach the word bet to its name. Maybe Microsoft should considering attaching the phrase beta with Vista, because that I what Vista actually is; a test. Vista was rushed to the public in order for Microsoft to get in the battle with Apple, who had XP beat on beauty. As a result of rushing to not be left out of the market, Vista was released to the public to test, it was know where near done...

Most everyone will agree Vista looks gorgeous, and that is what drew most people to upgrading from XP. Microsoft assured everyone that Vista would run on almost all computers out on the market today. But what they failed to mention was not everyone could take advantage of the "premium" features, such as the glassy window style. If you upgraded and were planning on experiencing a nice new theme, then you better have at least 1gig of ram. If you were like most of the early adopters you soon realized you couldn't use the premium looks or if you did it was horribly slow. For transparency to work on a computer, it needs lots of resources. Are you willing to give up productivity for looks? If not then stick with or downgrade back to XP.

Microsoft promised a better product but failed, at least at the moment. Vista does have lots of potential but all the kinks are just not worked out yet, like I said before it should be beta. When Vista was first released there was slow performance with file operations such as copying, moving etc. Microsoft later acknowledged this problem and fixed it. But this lack of software craftsmanship is not acceptable. You should not release a product until it is ready for the public. Microsoft also claimed that Vista would be much more secure then XP, but there are still many security vulnerabilities left unfixed yet. You can read about them here: http://secunia.com/product/13223/?task=advisories.

Many business which were going to upgrade to Vista did not upon hearing about all the problems. The business will obviously never compromise productivity for looks and effects. Many computer manufactures are now including a copy of windows XP in computer boxes that come pre-installed with Vista. If you need a stable computer for getting things done stick with XP.

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