articles.techrepublic.com.com — The official consumer launch of Windows Vista has brought with it a great deal of confusion, misinformation, and some fairly ignorant assertions. Windows expert Deb Shinder debunks some of the misconceptions she's been hearing, from exaggerated cost and hardware requirements to feature limitations and compatibility issues.
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sir1realFeb 7, 2007
Is the whole thing my computer yet? Or just what's in the "My Computer" folder?
dm33Feb 7, 2007
Too pro Microsoft slant to the whole article. Inaccurate, misleading.
nickxxxFeb 7, 2007
Office 2007 is pretty amazing anyways I love it.
roubenFeb 7, 2007
I just have 2 overall comments about the article that I *know* enough about to comment on...a) The DRM "nightmare" basically applies only to content you purchased, such as HD-DVDs, BluRay movies and DRM-protected audio/video downloads. One thing I can say, though, is that the video component of the DRM requirements will definitely add to the complexity of video drivers in Vista, as shown by several hardware vendors' delays in releasing Vista video drivers.b) I am still skeptical about Vista's "protected execution environment". The fact remains that under the hood, Vista is still NT, and the whole POE layer seems to be just a layer... on top of an existing super-complex system. And complex things tend to break easier than simple things, a fundamental truth that the folks at Redmond don't seem to be realizing, or unwilling to accept, possibly because they have all this intellectual property to protect with blankets upon blankets of obscure code.c) The "new and improved" system restore functionality also raises doubt, simply because Microsoft has failed to implement it properly since its inception in Windows ME.d) Compared to Linux, Vista *is* a resource hog, plain and simple. You can't run Aero decently on a Pentium III 750MHz with 256 Megs of RAM and a Geforce 2MX card. You can try, but I don't recommend it. On the other hand, Beryl on Linux runs just fine on that system. So as far as efficiency goes, Vista is definitely not the winner here.
vanillabaronFeb 8, 2007
Well, the article is excellent. Written with clarity and facts and a lack of hyperbole. Best of all, it doesn't try and falsely claim that it is Mac users who are spreading the FUD. I'm a Mac user, and I haven't commented on Vista for the simple reason that I haven't yet used it.But the comments here ... ugh. So many people who are using this as (yet another) excuse to attack Apple and attack the (wholly fictional) "fanboy crowd". Please. There is no fanboy crowd, and it is sad that so many are so insecure they need to first create, then assault, an imaginary enemy.Most Mac users are like most Windows users are like most Unix users are like most users of any OS ... they use their OS, they like some things and dislike others, and they just get on with it.Some Mac users are like some Windows users are like some Unix users are like some users of any OS ... their personal feelings of inferiority cause them to excessively promote their operating system. It's got nothing to do with Apple, it's a feature of all groups of people.
realconspiracyMar 11, 2007
What a crap article. "One of the strangest and most inaccurate statements I heard was that "With Vista, you can't run two operating systems on the same computer like you could in the past." That's news to me, as I'm currently running two computers that dual boot Vista and XP.""Dual boot" does not mean running both Vista and XP on the same machine.