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Fuzzy Logic Microsoft’s painful blister: Windows Vista
Fuzzy Logic Microsoft’s painful blister: Windows Vista | Microsoft’s painful blister: Windows Vista |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 27 November 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 3 So far the press for Vista has mostly been bad. Incompatibility problems with hardware and software as drivers took a long time to arrive or are still yet to arrive, performance issues even on powerful hardware, the delay of Dreamscene and the lack of any compelling Vista Ultimate content and USB problems that could remove Vista’s ability to recognise any USB device and more. Featured Whitepaper
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Vista has had so many problems over the past year, a number of which have since been solved by updates and new drivers, that Vista has morphed in Windows XP’s bratty little sister. But, as Vista draws near to SP1, it’s important to remember that the last year of Vista has really been Vista Beta. Updates to Vista have been coming all year, with a raft of performance updates issued to speed things up, extend battery life, expand compatibility with hardware and software and more. Microsoft’s Windows Update service has been their most intelligent ever, dutifully gathering data on problems suffered, and if permitted, transmitting those back to Microsoft as error logs to help Microsoft eventually fix the problem. And, over time, solutions to problems encountered have appeared through the Windows Update system. Suddenly being informed that a solution is available to whatever problem it is you’ve been putting up with is a really nice thing, especially if the solution actually fixes the problem. Microsoft says that SP1 will include no new features, and will essentially be a collection of all those updates and fixes we’ve been getting up until now, along with some others that we presumably have been reserved for the SP1 launch and only tested in the current SP1 beta program. This means that Vista users today, on stable and compatible hardware, should have seen Vista’s performance and compatibility improving a little thanks to the recent performance updates. So, has Vista's performance improved with all these updates? Please read the conclusion of page 3 to find out! |
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