well....there certainly is still much FUD here. My experience has been great. Not one piece of hardware has had an issue, and I have a couple legacy SCSI drives and a pieces of 8 year old hardware.
As far as the "pop-ups" are concerned...you realize you can turn those off...right? Geez guys come on. Why complain about something that you can change in less than a minute!
Yes, the GUI is pretty. Some of us like that. I also like the fact I can tweak almost anything to associate it with the GUI. Im a lazy computer user who works with Cisco IOS all day. When I compute at home I want easy. Vista is certainly that.
I would like to mention the firewall. IMHO it works great. You can do almost everything you can with a 3rd party one, including port forward. You can add ports, block ports, limit ports to incoming or outgoing only, etc. It works very well.
Another thing I'd like to bring up is defrag. You realize you can set it up to scedule regular defrags to your choosing...right? So what if there isnt a graph or a GUI lol does it really matter?
Encryption. Vista has Bit Blocker which is native encryption. Native. This is bad why?
Windows Media Player 11. I adore it. I transitioned from iTunes to manage my over 2100 songs in my library. Why? Because WMP 11 does the same exact thing. And on a side note, one feature I love that I couldnt get to work on any other player reliably is the normalize function. Sometimes on compilation disks some songs have a different volume level than others. WMP 11 fixes it on the fly. It plays your music at the same level despite recording anomolies.
SuperFetch. Brilliant idea. I love having my most used programs automatically loaded into memory before I launch them. Big time saver. And it's dynamic based on my habits.
Indexing. Finally MS has got this one down. I can search all 3 of my hard drives for a file in about 1 minute. With XP it took over 10 minutes.
Resource monitor. Awesome. Remember in XP when you CNTL/ALT/DLT and you look at your processor and memory graph? With Vista you can expand that to monitor every process running, and how much memory or CPU usage is happening. It also can monitor your hard disks. Very nice.
Anyway, I definatly am not a fanboi although I sound like one. It's just that IMHO MS has built a great OS. Those that think its just a GUI upgrade have no friggin idea what theyre talking about. It is completely different from XP. As someone else said in this thread, people expect it to act like XP. Well, some things do alot of stuff doesnt. Why? ITS NOT XP! Even though it DOES require you to learn to do some things differently, why is that bad? Ignore the FUD and do some research (technical stuff) before you start complaining. And certainly dont think you can get a grasp on this OS in a day. Or even a week.
As far as the "pop-ups" are concerned...you realize you can turn those off...right? Geez guys come on. Why complain about something that you can change in less than a minute!
Yes, the GUI is pretty. Some of us like that. I also like the fact I can tweak almost anything to associate it with the GUI. Im a lazy computer user who works with Cisco IOS all day. When I compute at home I want easy. Vista is certainly that.
I would like to mention the firewall. IMHO it works great. You can do almost everything you can with a 3rd party one, including port forward. You can add ports, block ports, limit ports to incoming or outgoing only, etc. It works very well.
Another thing I'd like to bring up is defrag. You realize you can set it up to scedule regular defrags to your choosing...right? So what if there isnt a graph or a GUI lol does it really matter?
Encryption. Vista has Bit Blocker which is native encryption. Native. This is bad why?
Windows Media Player 11. I adore it. I transitioned from iTunes to manage my over 2100 songs in my library. Why? Because WMP 11 does the same exact thing. And on a side note, one feature I love that I couldnt get to work on any other player reliably is the normalize function. Sometimes on compilation disks some songs have a different volume level than others. WMP 11 fixes it on the fly. It plays your music at the same level despite recording anomolies.
SuperFetch. Brilliant idea. I love having my most used programs automatically loaded into memory before I launch them. Big time saver. And it's dynamic based on my habits.
Indexing. Finally MS has got this one down. I can search all 3 of my hard drives for a file in about 1 minute. With XP it took over 10 minutes.
Resource monitor. Awesome. Remember in XP when you CNTL/ALT/DLT and you look at your processor and memory graph? With Vista you can expand that to monitor every process running, and how much memory or CPU usage is happening. It also can monitor your hard disks. Very nice.
Anyway, I definatly am not a fanboi although I sound like one. It's just that IMHO MS has built a great OS. Those that think its just a GUI upgrade have no friggin idea what theyre talking about. It is completely different from XP. As someone else said in this thread, people expect it to act like XP. Well, some things do alot of stuff doesnt. Why? ITS NOT XP! Even though it DOES require you to learn to do some things differently, why is that bad? Ignore the FUD and do some research (technical stuff) before you start complaining. And certainly dont think you can get a grasp on this OS in a day. Or even a week.