Reviewing Windows XP, After Vista
This post was published 1 year 11 months 6 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I love the idea of actually re-reviewing Windows XP after Vista has been released.
Windows XP has quite a cartoony look and feel compared to the slick look of Aero Glass; this is mostly offset by the lack of strange screen artifacts caused by malfunctioning graphics code. You know, almost like static on the screen. This was a once or twice monthly occurrence on my laptop, and happened on my desktop whenever I logged in, and also whenever I played a 3D game after leaving Vista running for a couple of hours. I also miss the “orphaned windows” I got on Vista, dialog boxes that would not go away, in a sense they became part of the desktop, since you could drag a selection from within them, despite the fact that the Glass would render the selection below them. Such crazy graphics bugs appear to be a thing of the past.
Is it me or is Windows Vista the Windows ME of 2007?
Quite frankly I think your full of it. None of the games i’ve tried on vista (upwards of 10 old and new) have left a ghost or orphaned window. the only program to suffer visual errors was a 10 year old picture eding software and vista Identified and fixed the issue after running it a few times (Vista started to switch aero off whenever I ran the program). that has been the only visual issue i’ve had to deal with. Vista is far from a repeat of windows ME. I’ll stick with vista I’ve not been impressed with what i’ve seen of leopard (in all fairness I note that I do not own a mac to really play with/learn about leopard).
On a side note whenever I use a smart phone or PDA to access your site (like today- love phones with keyboards) the colors are bad- not enough contrast between some of the text and the background.
it’s you — vista is awesome
I’m actually a Mac man and loving Leopard, but give Vista time and soon people will adopt it and it will become the “new XP”
@above
you’re both wrong…
I’m a Mac user… loved Tiger… adore Leopard… run Ubuntu for servers and XP for my Media Center/Gaming machine…. I put Vista on it (machine has solid specs) for the eye candy and directx10… 2 weeks later I wiped the machine and put XP back on.
Vista is complete crap… XP is solid, Leopard is better than both and Microshaft needs to get their crap together and act like the Multibillion dollar software giant they are and put out a fucking Unix based MS-DOS (compatible) OS and get with the fucking times… and someone send them a note letting them know that your OS GUI shouldn’t consume retarded amounts of resources…. you might actually need some of that stuff for … oh I dunno…. appli-fucking-cations!
To me, the importance of a major OS update is adding/modifying features that do not interfere with the user’s current knowledge of how things work. OS X seems to do this flawlessly (I can do the same task the say way in most every version of OS X). This simply is not true in Windows. From 98 to 2000 to XP to Vista, it seems like even the most basic of tasks is confusing and very different from one version to the next. Since productivity is vital, I simply don’t want an OS that will require me to slow down and learn the new procedures.
To quote the old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Saddness, Vista is alright in my eyes. I’m running SP1 Beta, and I have NO PROBLEMS! The problem I do have with Vista is that has split the community, people either like Vista or hate it. And that makes me sad. So sad.
Propaganda from Dan!
I don’t have any major problem with Vista. I think if I go back to XP I would start missing a features. I just don’t think it is as bad as people want to make it out to be.
Mr. Uneasysilence, tear down this post!
Wow, my sarcasm meter exploded in reading the conclusion of that article. Great review, though. I love XP. I would love to see them improve XP rather than taking on new projects. LONG LIVE XP!
Dan: You’re right on. Windows ME and Windows Vista will probably share a very similar history in the lineup of Microsoft OS’s. (If Vista does manage to claw its way to greater prominence, it may eclipse Windows 98.)
But there’s no question that it is not the blockbuster that Windows 95, Windows 2000, or Windows XP was for Microsoft.
It’s really just a matter of timing. The era of need for shiny new desktop OS’s is over. We figured it would happen in this decade, but we didn’t bet as much money as Microsoft did on being ahead of that wave rather than behind it.
I haven’t experienced any graphics issues, but Vista has ALWAYS been buggy since loading it. Network problems, wireless problems, and I hate the error responding “checking for a solution to the problem…” Hands-down the looks are way sexier than XP, but a downgrade is on my horizon.
I hate the spinning wheel of death, and I hate how it does it every time I run a mac. It sure gets you in the habit of saving every 2 minutes tho, but it learns, and it will crash when you go to save.