Somebody is getting fooled big time

[jovin]

Was listening to CFRB this morning and the radio interviewer asked a Vista guru what were the best 3 things about Vista. After stating that Vista did many things better than XP, the interviewer brought him back to stating what were 3 things. He said that the best thing that Vista did was having a search engine that instantly found your photos on you hard drives.

Oh, oh, this is the best feature? What would be the worst feature, aside from the fact you need to upgrade your hardware and buy new software in some cases? Talk about snake oil salesmen, they all work for MS now!

How about saying that it performes a certain task 50% faster than XP? No way. In fact for video editing it is significantly slower. Caveat emptor as the Romans used to say.

[DazedNConfuzed]

the interview might have been recent.

but this is old news.

[Lucky13]

I can hear the "THUD" can you? :nne:

[Digiital]

How about using something like Google Desktop! :) in XP



He said that the best thing that Vista did was having a search engine that instantly found your photos on you hard drives.

[Mr. Apollo]

For Joe Average, something like this is really cool and useful.

[Nuke]

Ok, it performs a search hundreds of times faster than XP :d
Really, why are we basing the merits of an O/S on what a "Vista Guru" (debateable) didn't say in an interview.

I've been using Vista for a little over a week now, testing the waters before I post my opinion about it, and there are plenty of good things about it. Security is a huge improvement. Things like UAC (User Account Control), ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomiser - 64 bit), UIPI (User Interface Privilege isolation), PatchGuard (64 bit), Hardware DEP (64 bit), and MIC (Mandatory Integrity levels) make Vista far, far more secure than any previous version of Windows. Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 7 uses Virtualization and a Low integrity level to isolate it from the rest of the O/S making it the most secure browser available right now. As an aside, I tried running FireFox with Low Integrity but it seems to have some temp directories hardcoded in to it that I can't change. It ends up losing too much functionality.

I personally find the new interface great. Aero is asthetically pleasing and most everything is intuitively functional. Taskbar preview, Windows Sidebar and 3d-flip are all handy. The increase in bundled applications is also welcome. Windows Calendar is quite good, but I have not yet tested the Media Center applications, Games Explorer, Contacts, or several of the other tools. I also need to check the Photo Viewer out more, as I've only glanced at it. The search feature is great (essentially the same thing as Spotlight for Mac). It can search within documents and through your hard drive and does it nearly instantly. Other little things, like how a calendar now displays when you click on the clock in your taskbar and the addition of pictures to ALT+TAB, when taken in tandem also provide more convenience and more satisfaction with the O/S as a whole.

ShadowCopy is one of my personal favorites. It allows you to right click on any file or folder and access previous versions of that file/folder. So, if you mess something up, or even just want to see an older revision of the file/folder, you can.

My startup time and shutdown time has also improved quite a bit, the latter being the most significant. Overall performance seems to have also increased, namely with startup times of applications, but we'll have to see whether that is a merit of Vista, or if it's just because XP was becoming bogged down since the clean install in June. I have also experienced no program crashes or quits (to date).

Sooo... there are a lot of improvements and changes that have gone in to Vista, many that I haven't talked about, and probably quite a few I don't know about yet (I've had alot of stuff going on lately so I haven't had to much time to probe). If we're going to talk about what it lacks, we should at least be fair and talk about what it doesn't, as well.

[Les Shaw]

I like it but still run most things in XP and most likely will for a year or so ..
More system back up and protection.