Category: Vista

Heavy Leopard Pre-orders Caused by Vista

Paul

Some solution providers have reported that the pre-orders for Apple’s Leopard are more than double for the same time prior to Tiger’s release. They cite Leopard’s new features and customer dissatisfaction with Vista as key drivers, according to ChannelWeb on Thursday.

“We’ve probably doubled the backorders of Leopard, compared to what we did with Tiger,” said Patrick Brown, CEO of Brown Computer Solutions, in Brattleboro, Vermont, a solution provider and Apple specialist. “With the Intel Macs, Apple has significantly increased the installed base. We do expect a very successful launch.”

With Vista having so many flaws does that mean Apple will be the next Microsoft?

SUMMARY: Vista – a 50/50 proposition.

Paul

Many readers remember when Prescott came out – basically Intel hit the wall with Prescott, with cooling issues severe enough to render this CPU as a problem. Fast forward and now we see CPUs where raw speed is not the paramount issue and cooling is not as severe a challenge as with Preshott – a decided marketing shift from the horsepower race.

I think it’s fair to ask if Microsoft has in fact hit the wall with Vista – an operating system that has garnered decidedly mixed reviews with users. There are a number of factors cited:

* The need for LOTS of RAM
* UAC (User Account Control)
* Lack of driver support (improving over time)
* Problems with legacy devices
* Cost of hardware upgrades to make Vista run well
* Minimal performance difference between Vista and XP

I say we know how this turns out mostly people don’t like Vista and would like XP a whole lot better. I actually agree to Vista not being totally up to the challenge. I say XP has a lot on it’s side!!

Four Graphical User Interfaces in Vista that just needs fixed:

Paul

The First and foremost is the User Access Control, UAC for short. The UAC is never been ready for Windows. Microsoft knew this and so did most of the Beta testers who were formerly known as LongHorn Project. The UAC has several shortcommings. The one that really burns my biscuit is after you disable the UAC. The way you disable the UAC is by Start, type msconfig.exe [ENTER]. Once Msconfig loads up you click on the tools tabs, Looking for [Disable UAC] hightlight it. Click Launch. That’s it no more UAC, btw You have to have ADMIN for all users to be able to disable UAC for all accounts. Now everytime I boot up it comes up with a Security alert saying, your system is not protected(A scare tactic that I do not like). So you have to google to find the other reg code needed to disable that little icon from showing up. Go google and find out how.

The second and most annoying is game play for Vista. Most if not all my games have some kind of trouble with vista. Wolfenstein:Enemy Terriroty, COD the Original, and some others the ones that I like the most do not work. Vista always says they stop responding and has to exit. I’ve tried everything from googling the games and vista and nothing. I’ve also had problems with programs like Trillian and other programs stop responding or have difficulty running due to Vista. Most of my games I have to load up Ubuntu and play it in Linux, if you think it is hard actually it is quite easy. This one the only work around that actually works.

The third one is DRM(Digital Rights Management). DRM has been a thorn in people sides ever since they first introduced it. It is designed to prevent people from illegally copying content, but the truth is If I have a copy of Harry Potter and I wanted to take it on the plane to watch but leave the CD home, that is not going to happen. The Vista DRM will not allow anyone to copy files to the hard drive to view later, althought there will always be tools to circumvent it. DRM just makes it harder on the end user and tries to control every aspect of Copy Protection.

The Forth is the System speed on Vista. I have a dual core 1.67ghz system and every time Vista runs and startups it takes from anywhere 2 mins to 5 mins for everything to be ready after logging into my account. I also think the system is sluggish and slow in whenever I try to use a large file. I admit I have 1gig of memory for the system. I know it might slow it down but XP only needs 128 megs of memory to run. I do not think it should slow down this much. If it wasn’t for ReadyBoost this system wouldn’t be running Vista, I’d have install Ubuntu and wipe the system clean.

With that said, I hope when SP1 Comes out for Vista it makes the system more stable, and secure and more useable.

Copyright 10-3-2007
May not use without authors permission

FAQ: Giving up on Vista? Here’s how to downgrade to XP

Paul

October 02, 2007 (Computerworld) — Microsoft Corp.’s decision last week to delay the end of Windows XP sales five months means users have just that much longer to jilt Vista and return to the older — and some say more mature — operating system. But even with XP’s reprieve, few PCs come with anything but Vista. Even if you wanted to take advantage of the wider window of XP opportunity, you might not know where to start.

I thought this was a real good article on downgrading to XP from Vista. I’ve been thinking about doing this with the system and I have been debating it for quite sometime. Go check out the article yourself and let me know what you think!

Microsoft Announces Internet TV Service And Extenders Allowing HDTV Access & More

Paul

Microsoft have announced the forthcoming release of Internet TV, a feature which will allow people to enjoy a range of television and video content on their PCs and TV sets without a TV tuner in their PC.

On September 28th 2007, US users of Windows Vista Home Premium edition and Windows Vista Ultimate edition will find the new beta release inside Media Center.


I have been playing around with this and find one it is really slow on a wireless connection and two, most of programs aren’t even out yet. I will keep people posted!