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Vista is about as unimpressive as a Ford Pinto. So, as a tool (making music, generating presentations, video and picture editing), the XP machine is my tool of choice. I cannot even turn the machine off! I have to take out the battery (laptop) and unplug the power to turn the machine off.

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If I am smart enough to have my Task Manager running, the software I am trying to launch does not show up in the applications window. When I try to launch the software, my hard drive goes into an audible 4 second loop that does not end. I run (or should say “ran”) the same software on my Vista machine but suddenly, it does not work. I can tell you this: I run software on my XP machine without any issues.

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I don’t geek out on code nor do I have any real insite into why Microsoft put Vista out to the world. So folks, I am happy to inform you that after close to 18 months of use, Vista does not SUCK. In order for this plan to work, Vista does not have to be better than XP. Of course, we have little to no say in this matter, because Microsoft has essentially forced the PC manufacturer’s to put Vista on all new PC’s.

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So every time, we watch a movie on our Vista PC, Microsoft makes a buck instead of Blockbuster. I think that once Vista is on a critical mass of PC’s, Microsoft will be able to cut deals with Hollywood and other content providers to sell and display their content on our PC’s. Vista has a “feature” called DRM or Digital Rights Management. In both cases, these changes were not made to help us, but to control our access to the content we view. There are two big differences between Vista and XP.

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Like Windows ME, you scrap your bad code, not your best code. Rather than building off of their most successful code base of all time (XP), they scrapped it. The reality is that Vista is an entire rewrite of Windows. Each year, things get faster and cheaper. So the big question is why is Vista worse than XP? This is not the nature of the technology industry. Sorry Microsoft, still today XP is a better operating system than Vista. It makes a alot of people sad to see Microsoft discontinuing XP because XP is a lot better than Vista. After enduring 10 years of Blue Screens of Death, and hours and hours getting peripherals operating correctly, XP brought the bacon. Furthermore, Microsoft scrapped all versions of Windows 9X legacy code. XP converged the Windows consumer and Windows business operating environment into one unified program. The predecessors to Windows XP were Windows NT and Windows 2000. XP was a total rewrite of the Windows Operating system, using a much more stable core. In November 2001, the cavalry came to save the day with the introduction of Windows XP. Clearly, Vista leaves Windows ME in the dirt. It was slow and it crashed more often than Windows 98. Who knows what they were thinking, but Windows ME was plain horrible. Then in 2000, Microsoft laid a huge turd called Windows ME. Due to these strides, corporations began to take Windows seriously. Windows 98 made huge strides in reducing but not eliminating BSOD. The BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) was quite common and frustrating. Then came Windows 98, and Windows 95 despite its many accomplishments was not very stable. Despite all of these great improvements, I still say that Vista handily beats Windows 95.

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They greatly improved the driver model enabling a whole universe of printers, sound cards, keyboards and everything else to easily connect to the Windows universe. Windows 95 consolidated DOS And Windows into one operating system. Many of us old timers remember typing “Win” after the computer had rebooted to get into the Windows environment.

Prior to Windows 95, Windows 3.1 ran on top of MS DOS. Just another addon.įast forward 4 years, and Microsoft made a huge advance with the launch of Windows 95. Before Windows 3.1, the primary way to purchase Windows was from a store that sold Lotus 123 and Wordperfect. Perhaps the most important thing was that Windows 3.1 was the first version of Windows to be bundled with new PC’s from companies such as Hewlett Packard and Gateway. Customers, both businesses and consumers, snapped it up. So right after Windows 3.0 came Windows 3.1. New features are added on to the old ones. The very nature of the software business is one of continous improvement.

Again, Vista blows the doors off Windows 3.0.Īll of this is tongue in cheek, but there is a rather serious point behind this article. In fact, fast forward 10 years to 1990, and Microsoft finally releases Windows 3.0 which was stable enough for mass adoption. When I compare the two, there is literally no comparison. Like many people, my history with Microsoft and operating systems goes back to the early 80’s with DOS 2.0. I bought Vista in March 2007, and after 16 months, I am happy to say that Vista does not suck.

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