Rumor Control: Windows Vista (part two)
This is part two of my Windows Vista article. Part one can be found here.
“It prompts me to allow or deny every two minutes!” Not true! While Vista does have a security feature that prompts you to allow certain things, it is no where near annoying as commercials make it look.
Pretty much anything involving altering your computer (installing/uninstalling programs, connecting to the internet via a non-browser program, deleting important files, etc.) prompts the allow/deny popup.
But for running your programs, saving your files, and pretty much everyday computer-use stuff, you won’t be seeing much of the allow/deny prompt. But if you’re annoyed by the prompt, you can very easily turn it off and it will never bother you again.
“It crashes a lot! There’s Blue Screens of Death EVERYWHERE! AHH!!” Also not true! Unlike XP and the Windows’ before it, Vista does NOT crash often.
I’ve been running Vista for months now and the only time I’ve seen it crash was when I overloaded my graphics card by playing a game that didn’t support it.
Furthermore, the blue screen of death is more like the blue screen of reboot these days. A simple reboot usually fixes whatever caused the pretty blue screen.
“It stole from Mac OS X! Bill Gates is a pirate!” Not really true. The biggest similarities between OS X (which is really 4 different Operating Systems) and Vista are the quick search and sidebar.
First of all, Vista didn’t steal the quick search from OS X. It might have taken the concept of an instant search (which I find to be faster than OS X’s anyway) and recreated it, but it certainly didn’t steal the technology.
Then theres the sidebar, which lets you dock little widgets on the side of your screen, or let them hover around on your desktop.
OS X has a very similar feature, but again its more of concept recreated for Windows than it is stolen from OS X.
This might sound like a case of “well technically its borrowing, not stealing”, but its not that at all.
The fact of the matter is that OS X and Vista share similar concepts and each does it differently. If companies didn’t do that, we’d all be using the Nexus (also known as “World Wide Web”) browser.
So in conclusion, some of Vista’s rumors are true, and some aren’t. Microsoft is usually pretty good with fixing problems when they release Service Packs, so hopefully most, if not all, of Vista’s bugs and problems will be cleaned up by the SP.
June 15th, 2007 at 2:36 am
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June 17th, 2007 at 7:55 am
I wanted to buy vista this summer, but I read a lot of bad reviews and some good. This article makes me want to buy it again. I guess I’ll wait for the first servicepack.
Thanks for the great review.