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My Experience with Windows Vista
So in case you were wondering if I am willing to give a recommendation to install
Vista, the answer is NO! The reasons why are as follows:
1) Black Screen of Death - Although Vista supposedly ships with
over 15,000 drivers on the CD, they forgot the one I need. Typical.
On my very unique system (the same Dell Precision 470 hundreds of people I work
with use) Vista apparently can't recognize some device and freezes during a reboot
after the install with a plain black screen. No error codes, no nothing.
I can't boot up in safe mode to try and figure out the problem, because the installation
hasn't completed. After searching for the issue, I am not alone...many other
people are seeing the same issue and are ripping out hardware and retrying the installation.
I really don't have a spare 8 hours or the extra hardware to troubleshoot for Microsoft.
2) LUA (Least User Access) - In an attempt to prevent users from
letting spyware and trojans on the system, they came up with one simple idea.
Don't let the user actually run as an administrator even though his username is
"administrator". This way, anytime the user wants to actually do something
that might mess with the system, the user has to confirm that "yes, indeed, I do
want to lauch that settings control applet that I just double clicked on".
Now this might make sense, but I actually use the control panel more than the usual
user in the course of the day. Adding 42 extra mouse clicks to confirm that
I want to run an application that I just double clicked during a workday does not
sound appealing.
3) Visual Studio Support - So the same company that spent the last
FIVE years developing Windows Vista managed to forget to build support for their
development environment??? This means that I'm supposed to develop software
for Windows Vista, but I'm not allowed to use Vista to do it. The product
that I work on has to have Vista support...why doesn't Microsoft's product?
Other than that, I'm still confused as to why I should upgrade. Security?
I've never had a virus or spyware problem in XP. Graphics? Well, I'm
not so sure pretty images on the screen makes that much of a difference. Until
I see some feature that I think would really be cool, or come across some software
that requires Vista, I doubt I will even try to install the OS again.
Until then...
-JP
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