{"id":179,"date":"2007-04-10T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-04-10T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T23:48:00","slug":"120-days-with-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/179-120-days-with-vista.html","title":{"rendered":"120 days with Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there any more to say about Vista? Probably not; yet after reading 30 days with Vista<\/a> I can’t resist a few comments.<\/p>\n

The author, Brian Boyko, says:<\/p>\n

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On two separate computers I had major stability problems which resulted in loss of data. This is an unforgivable sin …. Additionally, Vista claims backwards compatibility, but I’ve had major and minor problems alike with many of my games, more than a few third-party applications, my peripherals, and, in short, I encountered problems that actively prevented me from getting my work done. Based on my personal experiences with Vista over a 30 day period, I found it to be a dangerously unstable<\/i> operating system, which has caused me to lose data. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As for me, I installed Vista RTM on four computers shortly after it was released to manufacturing in November last year. Two plain desktops, one media center, one laptop. Just for the record, my experience is dull by comparison with Boyko’s. No lost data; all my important apps run fine; I am not plagued by UAC prompts; the OS is stable.<\/p>\n

Have there been hassles? Yes. Tortoise SVN<\/a> crashes Explorer from time to time; a perfectly good Umax scanner has no driver; Vista on the laptop had severe resume problems which only recently seem to have been fixed by a BIOS update. And Creative’s X-Fi drivers for Vista are terrible. There are also annoyances, like Vista’s habit of thinking your documents are music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I’ve seen nothing to change my opinion that the majority of Vista’s problems are driver-related. Overall I like it better than XP; it doesn’t get in the way of my work and I would hate to go back.<\/p>\n

When I do use XP, some of the things I miss are the search box in the Start menu (the Vista Start menu is miles better in other ways as well); the thumbnail previews in the task bar and in alt-tab switching; and copy and paste which doesn’t give up at the first hurdle. I also miss Vista’s more Unix-like Home directories, sensibly organized under Users rather than buried in Documents and Settings.<\/p>\n

Security-wise, I consider both User Account Control and IE’s protected mode to be important improvements.<\/p>\n

Forget the “Wow”. This is just the latest version of Windows; and it’s not as good as it should be, five years on from XP.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it is a real improvement, and I’ve been happy with it over the last four months.<\/p>\n

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Is there any more to say about Vista? Probably not; yet after reading 30 days with Vista I can’t resist a few comments. The author, Brian Boyko, says: On two separate computers I had major stability problems which resulted in loss of data. This is an unforgivable sin …. Additionally, Vista claims backwards compatibility, but I’ve … Continue reading 120 days with Vista<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}