Well, the debate is fairly one-sided about the new Vista operating system over at the SMH site. It’s worth having a look to see the various comments. To be honest I haven’t had that much trouble with Vista. There’s a couple of programs that don’t work as well (or not at all) but I was kind of expecting those kinds of problems.
What happened to the WOW? Writing in Icon this week’s Icon, Roulla Yiacoumi asks if the Vista honeymoon is over.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: MashUp
The verdict at SMH is that no-one seems to like it and it’s too early to change. That’s probably not a bad call for business users who have mission critical needs from their IT.[more]
For me, it was more of an adventure and so far I’m not having too bad a time. Although I must admit I not considering upgrading my partners business PC system at the moment. That one will be staying on XP until we see a few more software upgrades coming through (plus reports that they are working fine on Vista).
I think the thing to remember is that the PC world has an enormous range of third party software and peripherals to upgrade and Microsoft doesn’t have a great deal of sway over how and when that happens.
But if the introduction of XP is anything to go by, things will settle down within 12 months. Another service pack or so down the track and Vista will be common place.
I have added another 1 gigabyte of RAM to the R1F and I’m happy to report that it is singing now. There is plenty of capacity for running Vista and a range of other programs.
So things are still, as they say, developing with the Vista experience, but I’ve got no intention of moving back to XP at this stage. I’m looking forward to the future and software updates that are built for the new operating system and take advantage of Vista and of dual core processing.
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