@islandmaan 184797 wrote:
Just got a new laptop yesterday and all of the PC’s here only have Vista. I am finding this a disaster and I had heard there were problems with it but as i did more research on the WEB I find I am not alone?
Can those who have used it share your experiances with me?
Thanks,
Brian
Microsoft and their software get a bad rap – but much of it is from “evangelical” techy nerds who are MAC / UNIX / LINIX preachers and they were never going to say anything positive about MS anyway.
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s operating system comes in so many flavours (from basic right through to business, enterprise and Ultimate) that you’ve got to be careful not to generalise … so my experiences are from Microsoft Vista Business.
I bought a Dell about a year ago, and although I was very wary about being an early adopter I did get an early VISTA business operating system, making sure to buy all pieces from Dell to get an “insurance” about compatiability. (Basically if they sold me everything then it’s their problem right?)
So I had no problems with compatiability, because I bought a complete new system, with routers and printer, and all new components are generally VISTA compatiable. But I do know that thanks to much stricter secutiry rules a lot of old hardware that “broke the rules” in order to get better performance in old windows OS’s had problems working with VISTA.
In setting up the new system to work with the wireless network I found it frustrating, and not obvious, but eventually after a couple of hours I got it to work by tweaking an obscure setting deep in the bowels of the OS. It was not “plug n play”.
And I did take on using the VISTA machine myself (as a wee bit of a techie) rather than pass it onto my casino gal, as I didn’t think it was fair to use her as a guinea pig to find out all the hassles. (Originally I had planned to give her this machine as it was a grunty graphics beast).
Initially, the applications were a bit “buggy” but I’ve been running it for a year now, and further experience has shown that around 90% of my issues were with the bundled McAfee virus and firewall software … rather than true applications.
I had 2GB of RAM, and A twin core 2.12 GHz CPUs, so the system also had more than enough power to handle the demands of VISTA, which I had read could be a problem.
Microsoft have consistantly released service packs to fix and major issues (and a lot of minor ones) and with service pack 1 installed (about 4 months ago) it’s a lot more reliable now – and I would say better than any previous windows platform including XP.
If / when I purchase a new PC in the next six months then I would not hesitate to by a Windows Vista Business operating system.
I would not purchase the VISTA OS and try to retrofit an old PC.
Hope that helps mate.
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