Vista is slick
1/30/2007 04:06:00 PM | Permanent Link | Comments (0)
So they finally released it, huh!Windows Vista, an overdose of it. Since morning, and till tonight, from New York Times to the Iowa State Daily, in the Union Drive Community Center, on CyRide, in Differential Equations "and" the men's room! (Not sure what the consensus was on the "other" side)
A hefty majority of the campus (the males, 53%) was investigating Vista, it's features and flaws; and the remaining (47%, the more attractive populace) were trying to decipher what's going on with the rest of the 53%.
Not an insult to women; Today, there couldn't have been anything sexier than a female talking about Vista; on most other days, it's slightly different!
Now that we've covered the local reaction at the Iowa State campus let's see what the world has to say.
Wall Street Journal, CNET, BusinessWeeek and most other editorials gave it a fair assessment; criticizing it's flaws and underplaying it's strong points. Confused?
That's what editorials do.
I'm on a different trip. I enjoy the simple things in life. Can I still double click an icon and open Internet Explorer? Can I without any effort (on my part), restart the computer, giving me eyes respite; Or will I have to look for icons resembling Apples and/or Oranges on my desktop? Will Macintosh users still humiliate me on my choice of an operating system? Will I still be able to mock the minorities (Mac's), even though they have a better (allegedly) operating system?
The answer to all but one of the above remains constant.
Windows Vista could have flaws (like most other software), it could even have the most dire of security holes, complicated and non-intuitive windows, or poor stability.
It "could". It doesn't. At least, not yet.
The Microsoft Campus Agreement Website at Iowa State University allowed me to download Vista Business, the only edition available on MSDNAA. The installation was blazingly fast; MUCH faster than Windows XP, hardware detection was flawless, with the exception of the sound card.
Vista rated my computer with a 3.0 Experience Index (out of 5). However, it performed quite well, for most of the daily applications, and WoW seems to run fine too.
What I'm most happy about is the eye candy Vista brings; effectively eliminating what has clearly been the only advantage the fruit basket company (Apple) has had in it's operating system. Though the Apple adverts about Vista are quite funny.
I have nothing against Apple; I just prefer Guavas.
Labels: Apple, Technology
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