Vista: The Wow Stopped On My Desk...
At work today, I tried out a new Dell desktop that came pre-installed with Windows Vista. After two hours of playing with and exploring the OS, my verdict is hmm, I am so not wow-ed. Its too similar to XP, and the whole liquid GUI is so played out. I am talking strictly from the computer user's point of view, I do not care about what is under the hood. I want to get my job done, and have a pleasant experience with my apps, while doing this. The Wow factors on the Internet is way ahead of the Vista. It's like buying a souped up mustang and a few days later you discover it will arrive in a '99 chassis.
Oh! and the don't even get me started, Mr gates and is group are out to protect you from your own self. I think the cost of this measures on the user experience far outweighs any breach that could possibly occur. Really who reads all those pop-ups, over time you just click yes, yes, yes.
Hmm this was also my first experience with Intel's dual core processors, I still feel like my laptop feels faster though. I suspect the whole dual core thing is really relevant to the number of simultaneous processes you can have running. Dunno too much about this things.
Before you shell some dough for Vista, remember you aren't buying anything but the Wow.
Oh! and the don't even get me started, Mr gates and is group are out to protect you from your own self. I think the cost of this measures on the user experience far outweighs any breach that could possibly occur. Really who reads all those pop-ups, over time you just click yes, yes, yes.
Hmm this was also my first experience with Intel's dual core processors, I still feel like my laptop feels faster though. I suspect the whole dual core thing is really relevant to the number of simultaneous processes you can have running. Dunno too much about this things.
Before you shell some dough for Vista, remember you aren't buying anything but the Wow.
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I'm really not into the Vista hype, that's all it is, hype.
hmm well done o....i see you bin really busy homie heheh
Thanks for the heads-up. I thought as much too. Actually, much of new tech products is hype. The unsuspecting, gullible users simply swallow all the marketing-speak and discover sooner or later that they've been had.
It works the same way in the fields of PC hardware and mobiles as it does in software.
Guess the marketing guys must earn their pay. Rememeber, first we gotta have Omo,then Super Blue Omo, then Improved Super Blue Omo, then New Improved Super Blue...
the vista is pure hype. infact i'm looking to sell my ultimate upgrade or trade it in for a good old windows XP professional. the whole thing na problem from day 1, i upgraded my laptop memory to 2GB and yet the thing still scores my laptop a measly 1.0!!!!
Thanks, this post just reminds to do a new blogpost - "Vista: The Wahala Started On My Laptop"
I used Vista throughout the Beta phase and when it came out I was so sure that I was not going to buy it. Now I recently got a Mac and I can tell you that windows has a long way to go.
The subtle aestethics and the speed and reliability of the mac has impressed me so far.
As a Microsft user since Ms-dos, It will take more than the glass windows of Vista(which happens to be a memory hog) to make me go back.
@Benin mwangi, I can not help it can I.
@Boso, I am sure they have a lot going on under the hood, but for a user like me What I See Is What I Know.
@Biodun, Stop being unanimous boy, 'homie' gave you out.
@Yomi Adegboye, its all hype, but at some point we all have to move to vista or a newer version, for non geeky users like me, I moving to another OS is quite scary, I guess MS got us on lock.
@Kibaati, that is sure another way to look at it.
@David, that was drastic though.
@tcherokee, MS lost another one.