It is simply amazing how much FUD actually gets aroudn abotu MS products as "fact". "I heard Vista will be powered by human fetuses!"... "I heard Vista will sleep without wife!".
Relax. And lets look at some facts based on (gastP real experience from actually runnign the OS.
- We are running the beta of Vista (MSDN member) on several 4+ year old machines. In each and ever case Vista is as fast or faster than XP. That includes on the 256meg Celeron 600mhz box.
- In short... if you can run XP, Vista will run. If your video card is old, or the drivers suck, then you may not get semi transparency effects in the UI theme called "Aero Glass".
- Vista does, in fact, have some really cool features that make it a definite upgrade from XP aside from the UI. I won't list them here because there isn't any poitn in an argument. Go ahead and actually look into it if you want.
- Vista has some great security enhancements. The reality is that with a decent admin XP is secure - but few people admin their home boxes well enough because it is a pain in the ass. Vista solves 99% of this.
- Vista is not a haven for "DRM crap". They support an industry standard that is REQUIRED for any device / software that is goignt o play HD encoded DVD disks. Thats it. Don;t liek it? Don't buy those disks. Problem solved. If they didn't support the standard then you wouldn't be able to play those disks and peopel woudl bitch and moan.
- Even as a beta, Vista is really stable on 4 of the 5 machines we have it on.
- We have no widespread problems running modern software. Whiel some older packages fail... modern ones are fine so far.
Look... the beta is free. Go check it out, set up a dual boot and try it. If you don;t want to do that - fine. But it is amazing to hear all the FUD and uninformed rumors that go around.
