what do you think a bout windows vista?

Question

i want a full description a bout the good and bad things a bout vista

Answer 1

GOOD ABOUT VISTA
It looks pretty
more secure out of the box
you will have an operating system that should be around for the next generation of hardware
I believe software all the way back to Windows 3.0 can be used on it

The bad
Its cost
For all cosmetic bells and whistles of vista you need lots of PC POWER(2 gig ram for smoothness and a dedicated graphics any less it will seam as slow as anything else after you start getting programs on it)
Not alot of software designed specifically for it
All software back to Windows 3.0 can work on it.. Some may be buggy.
XP works well and is just as safe will all patches and updates
Minus the "Aero glass" look you can make xp look cosmetically the same
XP will be around and not obsolete for at least three more years

VISTA
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16832116196
XP
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16832116056

Answer 2

I agree with Peter Gutmann and his findings as well as experiences.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
From that:
Executive Summary

Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.
That is the preamble, here are some text samples, please note the full document is at the URL:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
And from another site is:
Gutmann, an Auckland computer whiz with a fascination with cryptography, photography and historic fortresses, was merely trying to get his head around some weirdness he had noticed in the security specifications for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system late last year, before it was launched.

He couldn't understand why Gates' hot new product was using heavy-duty encryption - the kind needed for online credit-card transactions - for the most trivial communications between components inside the same PC. Such a paranoid level of security seemed "nuts", so he started reading the specs more closely.

They were surprising: it seemed Vista was riddled with security precautions that had little to do with enhancing the customer's experience or making a PC perform better, or even making it more secure from external attack. Instead, they were all about preventing movies and music being copied and distributed on home computers.

In an apparent capitulation to the demands of Hollywood studios and music moguls obsessed by piracy, Vista was packed with "digital rights management" (DRM) "features" that could cripple a PC's performance as a media player at the merest whiff of copyright infringement, reducing screen resolution and sound quality or stopping playback altogether. And these hyper-sensitive features seemed to have the potential to over-react, blocking movies or music that had been legitimately purchased or created by the computer owner.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3959436a20455.html
I include the URLs so that you can view,print or disregard, choice is neat.
I guess it is a matter of choice.I like choices. I like freedom.

Answer 3

same as windows xp media center except it has alot smoother graphics and upgraded security which hackers will break the code in 6 months and still have all the same problems as every other windows OS has had. plus they are trying to copy the Mac OS now cause windows is now coming up with software that Mac has had for acouple of years now.


ps) I have a Sony Vaio so i'm not a Mac fanboy or nothing i just tell it how it is

Answer 4

Nothing special, just flowers and roses; big drag on system. I went to a store and saw it on several computers. It tries to anticipate what you're doing, and it has a "purdier" look and it can have a sidebar like the Google Desktop. So with all that it eats more memory. It doesn't really offer anything XP can't do just as well. So for now I don't think it's worth drooling over. Wait'll you get a new computer and you'll get it as a given.