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Technology Lifestyle Plenty of surprises with Vista -- thankfully
Technology Lifestyle Plenty of surprises with Vista -- thankfully | Plenty of surprises with Vista -- thankfully |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 28 November 2006 | |
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The first big surprise, after all the stopping and starting, is that it works, and works well. I’m still running Vista RC1 with Office 2007 B2TR, and despite occasional mini pauses if I have too many programs open and tabs open in different browsers, I’m having a much better Windows experience with Vista than I’ve had with any previous version, and certainly would not go back to Windows XP. The problems I’m experience have been reported by a number of reviewers as fixed in the release version of Vista, and with the release date only two days away on November 30, where I will be attending a media event and receiving an evaluation copy, I’ll soon find out for myself just how much faster and better it is than the RC1 I have now been running for months. While other reviews look at Aero, memory requirements, the 64 bit and 32 bit versions, whether UAC is turned on, or off and other such detail, I’m going to give you a quick report on what using Vista is like, and how this will help the people that form the largest part of Microsoft’s user base: everyday consumers who know about browsing the Internet, doing email, creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations, but not much else. Microsoft’s user base of consumers even includes many who are not sure what they are doing when they are browsing, or sending email or any of those things, including finding features in Word 2003 or previous editions. What consumers need – everyday consumers that is, not network administrations, IT consultants, CIOs or other really tech-savvy people– is an operating system that tries to make it at easy to use as possible for everyday people who don’t want to get under the hood, so to speak, and fiddle with all of the settings in too great a manner. Of course network admins, consultants and CIOs probably want the simpler interface too, as long as there’s an easy way to get back to more powerful controls, and for the most part, this is as possible as it ever was. |
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