Vista Justa Wasta Dolla ! (MS Windows Vista Home Premium)

Member Name: Jonny_Two_Times

Product:	MS Windows Vista Home Premium
Date:	27/10/09 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: Pretty, flashy, impressive

Disadvantages: Power use, memory use

3 stars. A good rating from me as you know. Let's have a look:

Windows 7 has breached and Windows XP is still THE single most popular operating system in existance. So what happened to the little section in the middle, the system we call 'Vista?'

I personally like Vista, it's pretty and lively with lots of nice little features and shiny graphics and applications. But then I have a system that can handle it. The story is different for those with low RAM or an inferior chipset regardless of if you have a 'dual core' or 'turion x2.'

The problem is this. Vista is one big bloated flashy operating system. It is a power hungry beast. Everytime you switch on your machine Vista gobbles up all the available memory and power it can find and refuses to give it back. This results in your system slowing down drastically and requiring more regular 'housekeeping.' It's for this reason that companies with budgets don't even consider Vista and stick to the thrifty XP. In my research I have heard stories of Vista actually affecting electricity bills adversely because of it's need for power and memory to run at it's best.

As such Microsoft will pretend it never happened and move on with the excellent 'Windows 7.' 'Windows 7' will actually offer you the chance of running in XP mode to allow easy use of 'XP' software and documents - many of which were labelled unusable by 'Vista.'

'Vista' is full of flashy animations, desktop icons and gadgets - all unnecessary showing off. 'Vista' is the pretentious result of Microsoft flexing it's software muscle - and backfiring. After losing a bundle in business and home use licenses Microsoft will hope to recover it's fans with '7.' And I'm sure it will - '7' is looking truly superb, back to ease of use, thinking again about the consumer and their needs rather than what can be done by their super clever graduate programmers.

If you haven't got it, don't bother. XP is still a strong option and very cheap. Alternatively '7' is looking superb from early investigation and initial pricing between £40 and £50 means it is not beyond reach.

Ultimately Vista failed because it couldn't provide what we needed. It is impressive with massive capabilities but it requires equally impressive hardware to display it to it's potential, isolating the majority of the population. Time to move on.

Summary: Send the power hungry beast to the software grave

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