Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time
Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time
In the spirit of good conversation I submit:
I have Vista on a Sony machine that was designed for Vista.
In the beginning, I didn't have time to learn Vista so I stumbled around
with it and had some frustrating experiences. But now that I've had time to
learn more and more about Vista's features, I question the test results that
shows XP to be 40% faster than Vista. I have 3 XP machines that are running
to the max speed (lots of memory, clean OS and no bloatware.) In contrast to
XP, my Vista machine which is running full speed with all the eye-candy,
including slide show gadgets, is faster than my XP's in most apllications.
For example, when I turn on my wireless adapter switch on Vista, my Vista
connects to the internet in 5 seconds or less. That's right. 5 seconds or
less. In contrast to my very fast, clean XP's that take much longer (30-60
seconds) and in many cases, I have to help XP connect by using XP Network
connect menus. The only problem I have with Vista is that the media player 11
can not handle some of my old video clips but the MP on XP can. I remedy that
with GOM.
In conclusion, I'm having good experiences with Vista since SP1 download and
with a few driver updates from my computer manufacturer.
I haven't even mentioned how Live Mail is performing incredibly well... and
fast. Or how the search functions of Vista make XP seem like a DOS based
system. Vista is more complicated and is asked to do more work that XP and in
most cases it does it faster.
So, as normal user/consumer, I say Vista is getting better.
One last thing- I've worked with a few Macs. They have their problems, too.
MS is going into the right direction with Vista.
cheers,
oscar
"cheley_bonstell88@live.com" wrote:
> On Jun 17, 8:59 pm, Casanova Fly
> <Casanova...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Don't listen to what people say about Vista not being a gaming OS. I think
> > they just assumed the backwards compatibility would be non-existant. Vista
> > has a clean interface that looks very nice. It's can utilize DirectX 10
> > (which is key unless you plan on having a system specifically to play games
> > from the 1990s). I was going to stick with XP because I listened to the
> > negativity, but my friend told me to go for it and so I did and I'm not
> > looking back. It's terrific. And in terms of playing old games, I bought
> > Hitman the week it came out back in 1999/2000. Before XP even existed, and it
> > installed on Vista no problem. I couldn't install it on XP either. So THERE.
> > The only game I couldn't play was original Doom, the original Windows 95
> > version. So it's your decision, Doom or Crysis. Crysis rocks the house, by
> > the way. Go Vista, you won't regret it. And it's not as buggy (for your
> > typical above-average-knowledge user like myself) as people, or those stupid
> > lame Mac commercials suggest.
>
> - So ,
>
> what advantages are there with Vista for the average user ?
>
> - Check out the link below . .
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/17/12TC-vista-versus-xp_6.html
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