Windows Vista in February 2008
Mon 3 Mar 2008Filed Under: Computers, Windows Vista
I find it enthralling that MS is still in the PR market with Vista – supposedly releasing documents that focus on the lack of Vista drivers rather than the reality of using Vista, in particular Internet Explorer. The things broken whether deliberately or not is debatable.
Nevertheless I use the Vista everyday and not by choice these days but due to work and it’s still really slow requires huge amount of CPU power for no reason. For example I had to fix an old Pentium III notebook on the weekend, it was still running the original XP release from 2001. Got it going again and was so impressed with the load times and application run times. I installed XP SP2 on it and wow it actually improved things. When I checked the specs, I found only 384 megabytes of RAM! I was even more shocked when I got it on the internet and ran Mozilla and it rendered pages with Flash content in the fastest time I’ve ever seen.
Vista hasn’t improved things we’ve gone backwards.