My Experience with Vista... Part II.

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
A Microsoft document? You don't think they might be a little biased do you? I'd take that about as seriously as Bill Gates claim to eliminate spam by 2006.

Didn't they say the same thing about XP when it came out. "XP is the most secure operating system ever produced."

The document's pretty straightforward about what's new with Vista and what the improvments are for. Read it, understand it, and if you think they're blowing smoke, list out your objections and reasoning in detail. I'm not regarding a vague "oh yeah right" as a valid rebuttal

Food for thought from Symantec researchers, after testing about 2000 samples of existing Windows malware against Vista:

Out of the seventy percent that were able to execute, only about six percent of the samples were able to accomplish a full compromise and an even smaller number (four percent) were able to survive a reboot. The rest did not execute properly due to incompatibility, unhandled exceptions, or security restrictions.

There's more where that came from. But I'm derailing the thread badly enough as it is, sorry VIAN.

 

[VIAN]

Originally posted by: rise
yes, when oc'ing it was a pita but thats done with for now. it does say "windows is shutting down" on vista 32. plus, right when you accept shut down, the desktop changes and shut down begins within seconds. as Scik Beast and i said, vista is just doing its thing, sometimes downloading updates and whatnot.

You're not getting it. In these instances, absolutely nothing happens when I click on the shutdown button for up to two minutes.

 

[VIAN]

Originally posted by: hungfarover

Originally posted by: VIAN
Stability
Vista has crashed on me about a handful of times. It might as well have been the BSOD. I was just browsing with Firefox and then my mouse and HDD stops working.

This one time, or maybe twice, Vista just restarted itself for no reason. The kind of restart similar to pressing the reset button.

Conclusion
According to my experiences, Vista is better and worth it compared to XP, although it isn't ready for the masses due to stability issues. SP1, due out later this year, will probably fix most of these issues. Hopefully.

With this last point here I cannot understand how you arrive at your conclusion, unless of course an unstable OS is what you're looking for...

Basically it says that if Vista worked properly, it would be better than XP.

 

[bucwylde23]

I have only been using vista for a few days, but overall I like it a lot.

I also love the GUI. It layout of things just seems a lot more practical to me.

I have yet to find CD/DVD burning software to install. I haven't tried installing the Sonic recordnow software that came with my computer as I'm not sure if it will work. The built-in burning option is "ok" but it seems to take forever to burn a full DVD.

The one problem that I am having (that I can think of at the moment) is when I plug in my Western Digial Mybook essential 250 GB external HD in, it takes a minute or two for it to show up in Vista. XP was very quick. Not sure why there's a delay now.

It's been stable for me so far, despite some hardware problems that I've been experiencing from when I still had XP installed.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: rise

Sometimes when I try to shut down, Vista might delay the shutdown process for 1-2 minutes.

nothing personal, but i always lol at this. who cares how long it takes to shutdown? the OS is doing its thing. do people stand there waiting for it to shut down after confirming "shut down" :laugh:

I do stand there waiting when I'm trying to install a stick of ram or rebooting the machine due to an update. Shut down time isn't a huge deal, but I've definately had other versions of windows drag their ass and piss me off while doing so in some instances.