I’ve had the good fortune of being able to install windows Vista on my laptop, to experience the look and feel of this new operating system. Was it new enough to be worth the upgrade?
Let me start by telling you that Vista does not introduce anything that I’d call a “must-have” feature. If you’re used to windows XP, and don’t want to upgrade to Vista, you don’t have to either. There’s nothing there for you that you can’t do without, and with so many years of patches, XP has become one of the better OS’es out there in my view.
BUT, Vista gives you alot of candy! And I’m not talking about Aero, I had to switch that off in order to keep my laptop speed up, it wouldn’t run google earth smoothly at the same time the Aero thing was activated. Shame, it looks smart, but not that smart. What I really like in vista, is how everything’s organized. It has become so heavily search-oriented that you’re about to start thinking SOOS instead of DOS (Search Oriented Operating System as opposed to Disk Oriented System). The introduction of a performance index is pure genious. You need to know if a game will run on your computer? just look at the number. Mine’s a “3.6”, which means, all the games I buy are expected to run smoothly as long as they don’t require more than that.
There’s too much to write about Vista for this blog spot, but my preliminary verdict is this: I’d never spend a dime purchasing an upgrade for my computers. For that, I have no reason, since XP does what I need it to do, but darned, it looks and feels VERY nice. Let’s see how long it takes before the Linux geeks have a copy of it :p
