Sunday, April 29, 2007
Vista
Alright, let's talk about Micro Soft Windows Vista. Vista offers a lot in the way of a new and improved OS. It has enhanced GUI, improved security, improved performance, and is the central pillar for the future of gaming. It uses hardware to power it's new GUI, running a lot of the new graphics through your graphics card itself instead of the CPU. This feature allows more use of the CPU for other more critical functions. Vista is the catalyst for the new directx 10 wave of GFX cards. DX10 compared to DX9 is like comparing Win32 to Win95. It's a vast leap froward from a stagnant period. The time between vista's release and XP's release is the single longest period between two windows operating systems, and this has not gone unnoticed by the majority of people in the online community i know. The lengthy time was mostly speculated to be from the massive incapability and lack of backwards compatibility with other windows software. A lot of information on Vista can be found on Wiki, which is where i learned most of the technical and nuisance things from. One thing on the wiki that i found which is my main complaint about what windows did with vista is with the windows classic mode. I'm a conservative person who fears the oncoming inevitable change the world presents. Every time i install XP, which is often, I immediately switch it to the classic mode. Apparently what windows has done is made the classic mode for business environments so as to make it less visually taxing, rather than the set up of the GUI itself. this quote off the wiki relays my concerns "Thurrott offers the opinion that Windows Vista's classic visual style is 'horrible' and a 'misbegotten excuse for a UI.'" I like the way XP looks and is set up. Microsoft has a sound defense against the "they made it look like OSx" claim stating they had certain OSx type features and looks planned and displayed well before vista beta 1. The problem is, it still looks like OSx, and i hate it. I plan on buying Vista, but rest assured, i'm going to despise it for being so different for a long time.
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Vista seems like it is making its way into the market quite well. I would be interested to hear what your thoughts are on the comparison between vista and the mac operating system. I heard that vista is doing things that the mac did a long time ago. I am a windows fan and hope that the mac computers don't have anything that windows wouldn't. DId vista ad a dashboard like feature?
I have heard both good and bad things about Vista. I recently bought a new computer and was advised against running the Vista operating system. With all of the updates coming out for it literally everyday, it tells me that there are still a lot of bugs to work out before it can overtake Windows XP. On the other hand though, once they fix all of the "bugs" I will be very excited about getting Vista. It will run faster, safer, and its nicer to look at too.
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