Vista Rocks!!!

And so does IE 7 and Office 12.....

I am ashamed to admit that even though I work in Microsoft I never tried out the cool new products. Being a bit low on bug-count I decided to try out Vista (a.k.a. longhorn). I tried ugrading one of the not-so-high-end boxes (3GHz, 1GB ram) to Vista from WinXP. The installation went through smoothly without any glitches and after some time I was the proud owner of a Vista desktop :).

Within couple of hours of fidling around I was super-happy with what I saw. Not only the UI has become sooooo cool the functionality is simply awsome. I loved the new metallic (??) progress bar. I loved the integrated search. I genereally navigate using keyboards. I loved the fact that I could hit the Win key and directly type the name of the program I was looking for. I typed winword and it showed me MS Word as well as all emails and files containing those words.

Vista is way ahead in security, with various security plugins in IE and Windows-defender turned on. The system was very stable and I decided to push my luck harder and went ahead with installing Office 12. This simply blew my mind off. The coolest features I hit upon is that your callender, upcoming appointments and pending emails are visible in the main email window of Outlook. The new formatting-preview  of Word, where you hover you mouse on the font size and word shows how the text'd look with the formatting applied was also nice.

Vista also fixes the old allegation on Windows that you need to go to Start to shut-down. Now there is no text on the Start button. On the default theme its just a round button....

Right now I am writing this blog in IE7 running on Vista. All in all I was very impressed and plan to shift to Vista as my primary OS over the next few weeks....

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2006
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• Anonymous
  January 20, 2007
  haha, 450-500MB of RAM -- I wondered why I put 5GB of RAM in my new machine.  I guess this is the rational.  Running SQL2k5, VS, office12 and a host of virtual machines is probably a good reason to upgrade your machine.  I believe the reason things are using so much memory in the MSFT world are two-fold:1)  It's OS on top of OS on top of years of kernels on top of DOS2)  Corp. relationship with RAM manufacturers?

• Anonymous
  February 16, 2007
  Kay other comment peopleit does not take 500+ ramit takes 250 at most(with the useless sevices turned off)hope it continues to work!

• Anonymous
  November 27, 2007
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• Anonymous
  January 23, 2008
  Switched over to 64 Bit Vista Ultimate...and have not even thought about XP since....have no idea why people are complaining so much about it, Im running the version that will have the most driver issues and I have yet to see any....

• Anonymous
  February 04, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 16, 2008
  Vista is brilliant:

• The memory management may sue more than XP, but it uses better RAM -Games are not affected by it as it reverts to certain XP feastures reducing the ammount of RAM used. -I have had very few BSODS -it just plain rocks

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2008
  Could not agree more, vista rocks!!!!

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2008
  Couldn't agree more, running vista ultimate X64, and the only BSOD i've had was because of beta graphics card drivers

• Anonymous
  October 19, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 03, 2008
  Did you guys EVER try ubuntu/any other distro? Linux/GNU wont play your 3d games (Sorry) But for anything else its 10 times faster.

• Anonymous
  November 11, 2008
  Vista Rocks! I have Vista Ultimate x64, Quad Core 2 and 6GB Ram. And it idles with 1.5 GB used minimum. And after today's updates it just flies!

• Anonymous
  December 01, 2008
  I've had VHP for over a year now on my first HTPC build. I couldn't be happier. Like others, I don't get all the negative press. Must be an equipment issue (ill-equipped pcs) cause there is no better OS - in my opinion - EVER.

• Anonymous
  December 28, 2008
  I have vista ultimate. For those who claim that this os is bad, you're stupid.

• Anonymous
  December 28, 2008
  I have vista ultimate. For those who claim that this os is bad, you're stupid.

• Anonymous
  March 23, 2009
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• Anonymous
  June 02, 2009
  Tried Vista Ultimate out.... Seems nice and flashy...But... My two systems were as follows 1) P4 2.8(800fsb) O.C. to 3.5(1000fsb) 2gigs of DDR 400, ATI 3850 AGP, 250gig HD 16mb Cache... 2)AMD 2.1ghz Dual Core 800FSB(1600HT), 2gigs of DDR2800 ram, ATI 3870 PCI-E, 300GIG HD 16mb Cache.  Vista seems ok after upgrading from XP PRO at first... then I tried to multi-task and guess what ... not as fast as XP PRO for multi-tasking, Tried playing GUILD WARS and Browsing Guild Wars Wiki at the same time...what a chore for VISTA... My conclusion after reverting back to XP PRO and Setting VISTA ULTIMATE on a shelf as a novelty item is that if you want performance in vista... buy 8gigs of ram right off the bat... don't mess around.  2gigs is ok for XP but not for VISTA.   As for Ubuntu Linux in a different post... My XP PRO machine beats UBUNTU to the desktop and when i click on firefox simultaneously my XP PRO machine open firefox many, many seconds before UBUNTU opens it up.  Everything in all LINUX versions that I’ve tried seemed buggy and S-L-O-W.... compared to side by side simultaneous comparisons with XP PRO.... oh and stop looking at me like that ... I've seen that dumbfounded look by Linux lovers 100,000 times and the side by side simultaneous comparisons on brand new installs don't lie! XP PRO is quicker!

• Anonymous
  August 06, 2009
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• Anonymous
  August 06, 2009
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