LOL, I guess Microsoft should stop selling bloated ware. Vista requiring 1 gig of memory? Are they insane?
I've got Vista and it works fine. It's came with a new laptop and it does lots of cool stuff. I just wanted to get on the bleeding edge of technology...
Never be a guinea pig for the industry. I like to wait a couple of months before I buy anything that just came out.
i would be more happy if microsoft would sell windows only if their programmer have realized all they need to make the system stable and safe enough. I hate the fact that to see win vista as soon as possible we have to install service packs over service packs... i know that a service pack is necessary ...but not after few weeks bye
Microsoft needs to realize that there selling and Operating System and nothing else. When Microsoft tries to push there other products on you it's when Microsoft gets into trouble.
When XP was released they were already working on service pack 1 for it. So surprisingly vista is no different. The problem at hand is due to how complicated software is getting especially operating systems you're seeing years and years of development. You have teams working on bug fixes, others working on features / other semi major changes, you have a quality control team as well testing anything that might go out. This also is not exclusive to software development either. You have new CPU's being designed for the next generation while the latest generation is not even out!
An Operating System only job is to communicate with the hardware and the program you use and that is it. The problem is that Microsoft wants to corner every market so they bloat there OS. The more stuff Microsoft puts the easier it is to find holes in the OS. Microsoft should go back to Kiss ( Keep it simple stupid)
Why don't you try a live cd. You don't have to install it to your hard drive and you get to test linux without commiting to it.
Being a university IT student I got Vista for free. Somebody has to be the guinea pig and if I get it for free, I might as well do that for them.
Vista uses RAM differently than previous Windows operating systems have. It essentially fills the RAM with commonly-accessed files to decrease the time it takes to start programs that use those files. The more RAM, the more it can "prefill". The OS will run on 512mb of RAM, but more is better. My main concern is with the graphics. I don't know if any OS has ever been this demanding of graphics processing. Almost no discount laptop computers come with a dedicated graphics card, which will make them very sluggish when operating Vista. I've seen 1-year-old laptops that appear absolutely crippled by this operating system. I've got no problem with Microsoft's service packs. I realize that they do not get everything right the first time. I'd rather get a service pack than have to buy a new operating system (does anyone remember the Windows ME fiasco?).
Service Packs are common to Windows OS - its called support. But I think this one's got more to do with the Google's anti-trust lawsuit against Vista's search function. Anyway, Vista is much more secure than XP SP2 and if there were major bugs, we would have heard about it before Microsoft.