Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion

Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion
Thomas C. Greene, 2007-02-19

The Register's Thomas C. Greene offers an entertaining review of Windows Vista, noting price differences in Europe, driver compatibility issues, and security and user interface issues that affect the Vista experience.

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-19
Alexandre Hamelin

Good article and good overview of Vista in general. I agree with many points in this article. There are others however that I believe to be more of personal taste -- things could be different, but wouldn't be objectively 'better'.

For example, I don't personally need a basic-yet-more-powerful tex...

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-20
Chris (1 replies)

Overall good review...not sure why you think "Europeans are subsidising Americans by $400 on every copy they buy" perhaps its because the EU is such a pain in the butt to MS they decided to recoup some legal fees on the EU users??? instead of Europeans paying for my copy? Or maybe my the issue is w...

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Re: Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-20
Ultrique

Maybe its just Microsoft/Amazon think they can screw over EU customers as Americans seem so obsssed with sueing over the slightest thing? Who can tell!
In any case a man as educated as Bill should really know the conversion rate typically means £1 to $1.6-$2, I barely know any american business peo...

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-21
Anonymous

To cycle in the 3D view of windows you normally press Win + Tab. To cycle in reverse, use Win + Shift + Tab. It also works for the more 'normal' view with Alt + Tab....

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-21
SanjayWS (1 replies)

Hello Thomas, i must say, its a well written review (in English sense) but its not technically correct in some parts. Here are my comments of your post:

1. The start menu has definately improved, i switched on classic after reading your article, switched it right back. I think MS did a decent job...

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Re: Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-22
Rob Nicholls (1 replies)

Regarding point 3: you need to "Change the way Security Center alerts me" first before you turn off/disable the Security Center service, if you don't want the little red shield icon to bug you when Security Center is disabled. I do not personally condone this action, I would much rather see users ke...

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Re: Re: Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-24
SanjayWS

Nicholls,

Its not from SC, its from Win Defender. Also, i think SC from MS is awsome....

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Wait until Service Pack 1 2007-02-21
Anonymous (1 replies)

I recommend waiting until at least SP1 before transitioning from Windows XP/SP2 to Vista.

Additionally, I read an analysis of a benchmark comparison between XP and Vista, and guess what? XP is actually better for gaming!

See: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/
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Re: Wait until Service Pack 1 2007-02-21
Anonymous (2 replies)

Thats because of crappy nVidia and ATI driver support. Same with the Creative Sound Card he described in the article, Creative doesn't have working drivers out yet....

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Re: Re: Wait until Service Pack 1 2007-02-22
Rob Nicholls

NVIDIA's beta drivers (100.xx) appear to perform a lot better, the CS:S Video Stress Test was 15x faster when running at 2560x1600 with the new beta drivers. They appeared online at the end of January. I believe ATI have been pretty good with Vista driver support, although I haven't personally tried...

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Re: Re: Wait until Service Pack 1 2008-03-13
Anonymous

My new Dell Inspiron 531s Desktop had many problems with NVIDIA Driver. It frequently prevented system from hibernating. Dell sent a new hard drive and fix for NVIDIA driver. Their tech. iinstalled/my home. What a relief after weeks of crashes, etc....

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-22
William Davis

Personally I had absolutely no trouble instaling Vista Home Premium. Nor have I had any whatsoever issues with drivers. The security centre is quite annoying however and I have had some issues with running Azureus. Tracking fails randomly. Media extender with my 360 will play 2 songs and then pops u...

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-22
Kate fom Maryland

This was a wonderful article and I had quite a laugh. Thank you....

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-22
Ronald Mc.European (2 replies)

I agree that the price discrepancies are scandalous. However, what would the consequence be for a European end-user buying direct from a U.S. source? I realise that European intermediaries would lose out, and that there may be some currency exchange loss; support calls, if required, may also cost ...

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Re: Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-27
Anonymous

The OEM (system builder) version of Vista is only £70 in the UK. Just don't bother migrating from XP until you get new hardware... much cheaper... Alternatively.. not sure how MS are meant to know your hardware is a new PC... surely all you'd actually need is a fresh HD....

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Re: Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-28
Stephen

You might get stung for import duty/VAT if the customs service in your country are good at what they do, but beyond that I don't see anything that would prevent you from using it.

I also would like to second the comments about Creative's drivers being crappy.

I'm using Home Premium myself and ...

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-02-26
Anonymous

I'd repost articles from a little less biased source than The Register. Tom's Hardware has some more objective reviews....

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This guy seems to pretend he is smart 2007-03-06
Anonymous (2 replies)

This article has nothing to security and I doubt this fat guy is qualified to make the following claim:

"I won't even begin to detail the security and privacy issues in Vista, as they are meat for an entire article...which is coming soon."

I think this translates to "I don't really know much a...

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Re: This guy seems to pretend he is smart 2007-03-09
Matt

I agree. Oddly, this author does not appear to be very familiar with windows computers. I dont see why:

-not reading the installation requirements and then complaining about installation requirements
-complaining about UI issues that dont exist ([SHIFT] key!)
-complaining that that the OS doe...

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Re: This guy seems to pretend he is smart 2007-05-08
Anonymous

What's the connection between the "fat" part and the "claim" part? You don't have to be skinny to claim something.
Stop discriminating!...

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-03-09
Anonymous

A really entertaining piece :)

Shooting at M$ is easy these days, but this is the funniest and more to-the-point Vista review that I read.
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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2007-04-09
minkeymagik

The biggest reason xp is better for gaming than vista is direct x. Windows runs DX10 and emulates DX9. They did the same tyoe of thing on 360. Blows too 'cuz alot of game manufacterers, blizzard being one, have no intention on patching current popular games, WoW, to make it run.

To me it seems...

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Don't buy any computer that has Vista 2008-02-19
Wesley Nicholls (1 replies)

I remember buying computers in the past costing way less money and running far more efficiently. I also recalled getting Printed Tutorials, Manuals and Software CDs with my purchase. Now when you buy a PC they just give you the computer.
For instance, as recently as December 2007 I purchased 2 la...

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Re: Don't buy any computer that has Vista 2008-03-31
Anonymous

dude, buy a NASA made gasoline powered computer engine for vistas... ...

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Vista Review: Bugs and Confusion 2009-01-30
Anonymous

QUOTE :

"Unfortunately, there seems not to be a reverse feature on this little merry-go-round, so if you miss your stop, round you go again"

Try Windows Key - Shift - Tab

Nice review of Microsofts biggest mistake...

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