Windows Vista Ultimate Review
Windows Vista - The OS awaited for a long time and now....
Overview
When I discussed with many of my friends, the first talk would be "SLOW". But to me its up to you to have it slow of fast. If you need speed and perfomance, at anytime you can disable some of the visuals like Gloss, Animation n stuff. On the other site you could also compromise the perfomance withe the visuals.
The User Interface has bought us to a new world of interaction and I hope this is the right way of doing it. Its the same experience when we were using OS like Win 2000 or 98 and we found a drastic change in the UI in Win XP.
I took a look at Vista on my laptop ( Intel Centrino Duo 1.66Ghz, 1.5GB Ram...... ) and I never found a problem with speed of the perfomance with the best visuals enabled and the fact is that I run huge apps like Photoshop, 3DS Max and a lot of others...
Media Center
One of the best feature I like in Vista. Media Center comes with the Vista Ultimate Edition and its a 100 times better that the XP Media Center edition. I love this and now I organise all my Music, Videos, Pictures n lots here. I know its a bit slow but even here I compromise with the Visuals. This is one of the best media experience I have ever seen.
Switch between Applications
The "Switching between applications" is a super cool feature. Vista generates a realtime and a virtual 3D perspective and show the running apps.
The sidebar is also one nice feature which avoids the use of external widget engines. I know that there are better resources out there but to me, as time goes... these sidebar gadgets will keep growing.
Look and Feel
I cant say which is better Windows Vista or Mac OS. I love both of them, but MAC is towards Blue and White gloss whereas Vista is towards Black gloss. Every window that appears or hides has a cool fading effect.
But I love vista because of its Animations, Effects, Shadows, Glow, Transparency and lot more...
Vector Icons
I cant keep mentioning "The Best Feature is" and so on cos everything I find here is .... Anyways Vista comes with Vector Icons enabling us to view icons at the highest quality and at the highest resolution.
Rich Apps
Viista has cool build-in apps like "Windows Photo Gallery" and "Windows Media Player" to well organise Media. A lot more apps like"Windows Calendar, Mail, Contacts, Meeting n Live Messenger" are cool simple apps to have ourselves more organised and simplify out tasks.
Security
I have heard a lot of Issues over the security of Vista. Lot lot of them... and when I use Vista I dint feel it so insecure. The User Control is cool enabling an admin prompt at most of the times. I disabled this cos everything I did... and I had to confirm that I am the admin.
Compatibility
9 of 10 Apps were compatible with Vista. And the rest of them.... If I am not able to successfully install an app, Vista prompts me with the below options and when I choose "Reinstall with Recomended Settings" it worked.. I mean I could install the app. I think vista sets the compatibility of the app to XP or so and then install the app... I like this too
Conclusion ( My Rating )
This is my views over Windows Vista and hope you liked this review.
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I use vista day to day, i use mac once in while.
Its just because the ui in vista is a habit, and when switching over to mac it makes you very unproductave for awhile, it is much easier to switch from mac to windows.
Cameron, you are obviously a "fanboy" of MAC.
I think its all about preference of how you like to use and manipulate things.
If you just came to pick on a system that alot of people like, than make like a tree and get outtah here. hehe
But really to say that vista sucks because it gets viruses and its such a security risk, Get a life.
It really isnt a security risk, It proves which system is used more.
If many hackers turned and aimed their attacks on mac users mac would cripple much faster than windows.
VISTA = virus inside switch to apple?
are you kidding me?
wtf?
nice acronym and just to tell you its possible to do that with any word.
MAC = Mothers at computers
Monsters Attack Candy
Massive Air Current
IT Professionals prefer to use Windows networks.
the ratio between professional mac computers being used for general business to the amount of windows computers being used for business is almost 1:50 meaning 1 mac computer is equal to 50 windows computers.
Its just because windows is easier to work with on a large scale, and that most companys don't trust something that is cheap and free - Its a fact of life.
lol i say the truth! about VISTA! and why anyone would benefit to switch from windows to mac. with OUT using bad language or offensive words and then you delete my comment?!?! lol i know microcrap windows is REALY buggy and bad but i didn't know it was SO BAD that when someone points it out the comment has to simply be deleted (now thats what i call a saw looser!!) enjoy your buggy virus filled slow 4TH class operating system
VISTA = Virus Inside Switch To Apple
if you are looking for a Revolutionary operating system then buy a apple computer that comes with a free copy of mac os x leopard the worlds most advanced operating system
A lot of people have waited a while for the release of Windows Vista and alas it has arrived.
The G3 Creative studio mainly use Apple G5's now running on Jaguar but still have two PCs in the studio and decided to test Vista
one of the machines. Delight and surprise all round, not dissimilar to the OSX platform.
A resounding 7.5 out of 10 from the studio.
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