180 Reasons why Vista is one of the best OS’s out there!
Vista slowly developed to one of the best operating systems out there.
A lot of people ignored the fact that Microsoft had to delay the development of Vista a long time, because they had to take care of some serious security attacks on Windows XP. I am not searching for excuses for Microsoft, I certainly agree that they shouldn’t have released an unstable product like Vista after 5 years of development. However I think that bashing Vista is not so fair after all.
Here are 40 reasons why I think that Vista is one of the coolest OS’s out there!
- 1. File indexing makes it possible to find files in a matter of seconds.
- 2. The Aero engine allows you to preview several windows at once.
- 3. The new sidebar has tons of great gadgets and helps to increase your productivity. Google Gadgets are now Vista-ready by the way.
- 4. Setting up wireless networks is now faster and very very easy.
- 5. Animated background wallpapers are way cooler than the boring static wallpapers.
- 6. Vista’s eye-candy is consuming less memory than most people would expect.
- 7. Vista is family-friendly and not made for geek’s alone.
- 8. Most drivers run in user-mode, making Vista a more secure system.
- 9. Applications that run in kernel-mode ask for permission, preventing unwanted damage.
- 10. Viruses and Trojans will have a hard time to attack the core of your system.
- 11. The enhanced sleep tool will shut down your system and save a lot of energy, but is able to start your system in a couple of seconds.
- 12. Automatic defrag and file indexing will make your system fly.
- 13. Absolutely great backwards-compatibility by now.
- 14. Enhanced memory management. Your system recognizes what are the most used applications of your PC and preloads them into the memory, making your system faster.
- 15. Enhanced priority system. Background tasks consuming a lot of memory will never make you problems again.
- 16. Since drivers are now running mostly in user-mode your system will not crash as many times as before.
- 17. Very cool built-in backup functions! Better safe than sorry.
- 18. Improved Security. The Windows Defender is a new little tool that will improve the general security of your PC.
- 19. Dramatically improved download speed if you have a high-end internet connection! Go Pro!
- 20. Finding wirless networks without any hassle.
- 21. Supports all the new and more secure protocols for wirless connections.
- 22. Cool Media Center, ready for hi-Def television on your PC.
- 23. Way less reboots after upgrading your drivers.
- 24. Built-in speech recognition, control your PC with your voice!
- 25. Easily setup favorite links in the explorer to get faster access to important folders.
- 26. Per-application volume control allows you to define a volume for every application individually.
- 27. DirectX-10 Support. Now that’s obviously a good reason to upgrade to Vista!
- 28. Improved Gaming Performance because of DX10. A lot of games including Age of Conan, Crysis, EVE: Online, Flight Simulator X (Patch), Gears of War PC, Hellgate: London, and Unreal Tournament 3 have all an performance advantage over DX9 players!
- 29. Very cool DX10 Shaders make your games look so beautiful!
- 30. Getting language-packs and other updates is now done in a few steps. Go multi-lingual!
- 31. Schedule backups!
- 32. Built-in Photo Gallery, that includes slideshows and basic editing.
- 33. Customizing Vista is a lot more flexible and allows developers to do some very cool things!
- 34. Scale icons on your desktop properly simply by holding STRG and moving the mouse wheel up or down.
- 35. Games don’t have to be fullscreen windows any longer! While XP caused a lot of problems starting several instances for example of World of Warcraft, Vista users will be able to mix 3D-applications and other windows without any problem.
- 36. Use your desktop as a place to increase your space for cool Vista gadgets! Simply drag and drop them on there.
- 37. Enhanced GUI, you can see and follow the exact path to your files and folders while browsing inside the explorer.
- 38. Built-in encryption tool to work in a very secure environment. Don’t allow everyone to get access to your sensible files!
- 39. Although I do recommend to get a third-party firewall, there is a built-in firewall that has been improved a lot since the release of Vista.
- 40. Improved parental control is a big plus in terms of children safety.
Oh yea bashing Vista is so cool!
Ok, still not convinced? Believe it or not there are another 40 reasons that speak for Vista.
Although many points are covered here I recommend to read another 40 reasons why Vista is a good choice.
Microsoft also did a list of 100 things they think are important enough to buy Vista.
Now it’s up to you. Vista SP1 has been around for a while. My personal reason for upgrading was that I needed DX10 sooner or later anyway. Another reason for me to upgrade from XP was that I wanted to setup a fresh and clean system. While you regulary had to format your PC before Vista, Vista is running smoothly for several months now.
If you have a new PC, then go for Vista. It’s worth it. Upgrading to Vista on an older PC might not be worth it, because I will not deny that Vista requires some good hardware. But if you have good system specifications, then there should be no problem at all. Seriously Vista seems to be very very stable in comparison
to XP. I remember that I frequently had to deal with blue screens before Vista. Haven’t seen a single one since I am running Vista and I have to reboot rarely.
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Animated background wallpapers are way cooler???
Animating the background is a waste of resources. If you are starring at your background you aren’t using the computer correctly.
Yeah but Ubuntu can use Compiz to get insanely better eye-candy, still uses less CPU and RAM, AND it’s even more secure out of the box.
The only reason I need Windows anymore is to play games, sadly that’s not worth the $200 or whatever Microsoft wants.
People don’t have time to compile drivers and learn command lines, they just want a pretty and out of the box solution.
I just think that bashing Vista is not so fair and I wanted to list some things that I like about Vista.
After all I am using it right now and I can’t complain. I do not say Linux or any other OS is bad. Actually I love Linux and use it on my servers. I am a little bit familiar with Linux by now, but I wouldn’t install Linux on my home PC. For working and playing Vista is fine. Period.
39 Reasons why Vista is still quite inadequate.
1) File Indexing is available on XP.
2) http://www.otakusoftware.com/topdesk/
3) Gadgets reduce a mass amount of your screen, providing objects that would be simply desk toys. A clock, post-its and a jigsaw are easily found in the real world.
4) I’ve been in tech support for years, and never had to give help setting up a wireless network.
5) If you’re looking at your desktop wallpaper, you’re either slacking off work or have no friends.
6) ‘I have the choice to kill no-one, kill a family of four, or genocide an entire ethnic race.’ Just because it is not as bad as the worst case scenario, doesn’t make it an advantage. Also, an animated screensaver makes this a moot point.
7) I don’t believe XP was made for geeks alone.
8 & 9) Simple measures are easily made to avoid family members & imbeciles ruining what isn’t broken. Tell them if it’s okay to do anything if they haven’t had experience doing it before.
10) Are you advertising that Vista is okay running without a suitable firewall & antivirus program?
11) People need to get into the habit of turning things off themselves to conserve energy. This is just laziness.
12) There are plenty of alternative defrag programs out there. Linux’ ext3 file systems do not even require formatting.
13) Or, use XP and it’s perfect. last time I checked, that’s better than ‘absolutely great’.
14 & 15) XP has already been using priority based memory management & runtime for some time now, as well as CPUs taking this into account directly.
16) System crashes are not random, usually the PEBKAC.
17) Again, laziness. If you do not keep backups by yourself, I daresay you deserve to lose data.
18) Companies have been developing antivirus/spyware systems far better than side-projects Microsoft throw in to attract an audience. Windows Defender makes your PC safe, but anything else makes it safer. You’re advertising poor defences again.
19) I don’t see your logic in this. If you have a high end connection, you have a better download speed. Vista has no say in that.
20) I can’t see how hard pressing the ‘Search for wireless networks’ button is in XP.
21) If you can give me examples, I’ll listen.
22) The quality of video is not determined by Vista, but by the encoding within the file. A Media Center is just a flashy program to attract those who enjoy your animated screensavers.
23) As opposed to the ‘one’ I used with XP?
24) XP has speech recognition. Microsoft just didn’t advertise it, as it was mainly used for people with disabilities who needed it, rather than lazy people using it as a toy.
25) A Favourites is not a good replacement for a good filesystem and tabbed exploring. This promotes laziness.
26) Freeware apps have been doing this for years.
27) The only good reason on this list. This should’ve been an article on the benefits of DX10.
28,29) I said it’s the only good point. You obviously see this, so you choose to say the same thing thrice to pad your list.
30) …same in XP.
31) System Restore provides adequate backup to your installation. File backups should be managed by the user to avoid overwriting with incorrect data.
32) …XP again.
33) XP has been around for longer, and is easily more familiar to your developers you mention. Also, customise what, exactly?
34) Icons on a desktop are impractical, requiring you to minimise all other windows or move them to get out of the way. A dock or launching utility sorts this problem.
35) I haven’t seen a game made past the year 2000 that didn’t have the option to be run in a window.
36) You mentioned gadgets and a desktop before. Both were bad points.
37) XP’s default explorer does not utilise this, but a folder path can be created by clicking ‘Folders’. Breadcrumb navigation and tabbed browsing (which Vista does not have) can be added with simple addons.
38) Encryption tools have been around for years, and are vastly improved upon compared to Vista’s additional addon.
39) The first mention that you need something else other than what Microsoft gives you. Very wise.
40) Parental control is only required for when children surf the internet alone, which should be managed by the browser, or an antivirus/firewall app. Unless, of course, you plan to keep your porn collection within their reach.
If this doesn’t make it past moderation, then I ask the author to have a look and see if my points are arguable. It’s not the OS, it’s what you do with it. We don’t need flash and cash to get things done. The pursuit of Vista is probably an overall setback to getting work done while you set everything up and get used to it. Then find the absolutely great driver updates aren’t… perfect.
Uh Oh.. I knew that there would someone come up with counter-arguments.
You got some good points, but keep in mind that I am not only writing for people who are familiar with all that tech stuff. I for example know people who would have problems setting up a WLAN connection. And I know people who like animated background wallpapers or who have problems scheduling their backups.
I certainly do not have these problems, nor do I stare at my desktop background, because I have better things to do
Actually I do not use animated wallpapers myself, but I know that a lot of our readers like them. The feature itself is very popular.
Believe it or not.
Also because the Vista desktop is completely rendered in 3D (polygons), 3D applications have less problems if they are mixed with other windows. At least I know of a couple of games that crashed from time to time if you opened up several instances or if you switched between the windows regulary.
Don’t have the time to fully answer you here, will do that tomorrow.
It’s a controversial topic unfortunately.
I appreciate your comment although, gives this blog a bit more stuff to talk about
Its pretty obvious to anyone reading this that windows is the only OS you’re really familiar with, which i think nullifies any sort of claim that this was an objective analysis. Oh, and if vista is so great, explain to me why microsoft feels it necessary to extend support for XP until 2014?
in short, you sir, purchased a crap product and are in complete denial, or you just don’t know enough to realize it.
but hey, ignorance is bliss.
To those of us who work in the field, it was really no surprise that Vista sucked so bad. Pretty much every-other major windows release is total crap, but somehow sheep like yourself still flock to it.
Vista is the new Windows Me. remember how you people ate that up?
So to anyone considering upgrading to Vista: don’t. Like i tell ::ALL:: my clients who want to upgrade, wait for Windows 7, which should be out 2009-10.
Your ignorance is bliss too.
I know that XP is better than Vista, I won’t deny that since I am using both.
Microsoft extended the support to 2014 because the majority of people are still using XP or even downgraded. A big mistake, since all those people (yes your clients too) will have a hard time to go from XP to Windows7.
The jump from Vista to Windows 7 will be flawless and I won’t have to invest as much time as you (in the future).
Vista is not user-friendly “from scratch” but after a few very easy tweaks it’s running smoothly. If I need all resources I’ll reboot and switch to XP fast, because Vista is eating more RAM.
So to anyone considering upgrading to Vista, do it today and be prepared for tomorrow. Use the best of both worlds.
1 reason to boycott MS:
Any software company that releases a version that minimum requires of 5 times the amount of resources as the previous version(but still won’t run smoothly unless you double it) is doing something wrong.
having used all 3, 7 > Xp > Vista.