Vista, Vista, and more Vista
The consumer launch of Vista is at midnight tonight and the Internet is awash with Vista postings. I feel I have been hearing about Vista for an eternity. I actually wrote almost a year ago that I was tired of hearing about Vista. Now I am tired of writing about Vista as well and I suspect some of you may also have had enough of the subject for a while. So I am going to give the topic of Vista a rest in this blog until more people actually experience it although I may be writing articles elsewhere. However, on this eve of its release to the general public I do have some personal observations to make about Vista.
- In many ways Vista is not a finished project; Microsoft was working on it in a frenzy right up to the release to manufacturing. Microsoft, other software companies, and hardware manufacturers have much work left to do.
- Until Vista has been in use for a while by the general public, questions remain about how the new security measures like User Account Control and the Content Protection Policy are going to work in real day-to-day practice.
- Windows XP SP2 isn’t perfect but it is established, works well, and continues to receive Microsoft support and updates.
- Most reviews that I have seen find no compelling reason to make a hurried switch to Vista.
Considering my own personal experience with Vista RC1 and from all that I have read, I conclude that most home PC users should not attempt to upgrade an existing XP system to Vista. When the time comes that you need a new computer, that will be soon enough to consider a Vista system or maybe even a Mac. Let the dust settle from the initial release, see what develops, and probably wait until Service Pack 1 before switching to Vista.
More advanced PC users who have the hardware and the money for a full edition of Vista might try a dual-boot with XP and Vista on the same machine. Or perhaps virtualization may be the way to go. I suspect that is what I may end up doing. I used a dual-boot while making the transition to Windows XP and I was glad that I did.
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