{"id":217,"date":"2008-08-18T21:33:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-08-18T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T11:33:55","slug":"windows-vista-in-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2008\/windows-vista-in-august-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista in August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My experience with Vista has not improved.\u00a0 Yes it has been stable &#8211; but slow and stable.\u00a0  The issues I have with it include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Every time there is an OS update or patch the media center reorganizes all my TV channels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The current version of Internet Explorer 7 is NOT a good experience.\u00a0 It still has a mind of its own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Internet Explorer 7 is not compatible with at least 2 major banks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To stop me complaining about it I&#8217;ve stopped using it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It is still very slow on a modern PC with a ton of memory and CPU power.\u00a0 Yet it does not do anything more than XP except a slightly prettier interface.\u00a0 More to the point it costs twice as much if not more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;m using Mcafee Anti-virus suite now and by gosh it&#8217;s made the PC notably faster then when installed with Norton.\u00a0 When I say &#8216;faster&#8217; it&#8217;s relative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It still isn&#8217;t compatible with all the software I&#8217;m using.\u00a0 However I guess it&#8217;s the fault of the software developer rather than MS.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side of things Windows File Explorer is still better than the Mac OSX Finder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My experience with Vista has not improved.\u00a0 Yes it has been stable &#8211; but slow and stable.\u00a0 The issues I have with it include: &#8211; Every time there is an OS update or patch the media center reorganizes all my TV channels. &#8211; The current version of Internet Explorer 7 is NOT a good experience.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}