“I just finished previewing Vista Release Candidate 1 for the Test Center, and I suddenly realized I’m more underwhelmed than I anticipated. A few months ago, in this very column, I used the adjective revolutionary instead of evolutionary. I’m changing my mind,” Oliver Rist reports for Infoworld.
“Aero is slick, no doubt about it. But I have to say that the non-Aero interface, which I used on my anemic Gateway M-255E notebook, is slick enough. If Microsoft was going to deploy loads of programming talent to figure out a specific technical issue, I wish it had done it for WinFS or the full version of the Next Generation Secure Computing Base.,” Rist reports. “Instead, I now have a much slicker-looking version of Windows XP … along with significantly increased hardware requirements.”
Vista “really just adds up to a sexier XP experience. The Sidebar gadget-fest, for example, so far amounts to a power user’s toy store. And it’s nothing I can’t get on XP,” Rist reports. “I feel as though I go through this with every Microsoft OS release: a certain amount of anticipatory excitement when loads of new features are announced, and then a ‘Where’s the beef?’ moment when I actually see it running. I suppose that’s enhanced here somewhat because much of the beef I was hoping for wound up in the butcher’s freezer. As it stands, Vista is a worthy upgrade to Windows XP, but if RC1 is any indication, there’s no need to rush.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kevin” for the heads up.]
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what??!!! No smart Alec comments from MDN???
Hahahahaha. Eviscerate Vista.
In other words, wait for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Or just keep using XP until you buy a new PC with a newer OS (and wth any common sense that OS will be Mac OS X).
“Instead, I now have a much slicker-looking version of Windows XP … along with significantly increased hardware requirements.”
Vista == XP SP3 . Only you need a much better computer to run it.
One must be truly be a turd to wait for Vista.
Dear MDN – Anyone can find an anti-vista review…would you please take ona real challenge and find us a PRO-VISTA ARTICLE?
I’d like to read what nice thinkgs someone says about Vista.
they must have some really bad reference point for sexy, I can’t think of a single sexy thing about windows
I had a woody. Windows made it go away. Not sexy at all.
Windows use causes E. D.
Doesn’t matter.
Vista’s release is going to cause the biggest boost in Mac sales in some time.
At least he has a good memory. He can remember the last time he upgraded Windows
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i’ve a nice thing to say about Windows and would like it to be available on Macs: quick image previews.
i can double-click an image in Windows and the picture viewer allows me to zip through images quickly. Can’t do that on 10.3. (I don’t have 10.4) I’m using Phonix Slides but it’s not the same as being built into the OS.
I can smell the rot coming already.
In Tiger, you can select a number of photos, right click, and view as a slideshow just like that to preview through the photos.
It’s pretty similar to the quick image preview of windows in my opinion.
If you have tiger you can select your pictures, right click, and choose “slideshow” to easily view your pictures.
“what??!!! No smart Alec comments from MDN???”
What more could they say that wasn’t said in the article? Ouch!
A positive Vista review:
http://www.skillznet.com/page5/page6/files/78f3a69c50c3acc8e4a8ebf42196ede8-1.html
Enjoy!
bootcamp is awesome.. now I can just run windows Vista which is nicer looking than OS X and run it on a beautifull white mac…
Amazing how much money and time Microsoftie spent to get an XP update.
As long as it boots on my Mac I can use it for the few Windows programs I have.
Hanford Lemoor =
Glenn Shannon.
Man With No Name from The Good, The Bad, The Ugly:
“I’ve never seen so many men wasted so bad.”
Hey, anyone want to give MicroLimp some help? A little pay back for the loan last century? Everyone nows MacHeads are more creative. I’ll give it a shot and start it off:
“Vista-Because You’re Not Getting Any Smarter”
“Vista-Because Everyone Else Is Doing It”
“Vista-The Best That We Could Steal”
“Vista-What Were We Talking About?”
“Vista-Beacuse Africans Have AIDS”
NO? Let’s think bigger then.
MicroLimp-Our Ballmer Blows Jobs Out Of The Office!
MicroLimp-We’re Looking Out For You, So You Better Look Out For Us…
MicroLimp-Without Us, What Would You Do With All That Free Time?
MicroLimp-I Loved The Company So Much, I Quit It
MicroLimp-We Have More Money Than You
MicroLimp-If You Can’t Get It Right The First Time, Through More Money At It
did I really spell throw through?
Sorry
The Sidebar is a hilarious Dashboard rip-off! Hilarious because Microsucks has found YET ANOTHER way to clutter up your desktop with icons!
LOL!
Anim8r (or shall I call you Ian),
Nice of you to try and indulge the audience.
Of course, when somebody says Go and find a POSITIVE review of Vista!, what they’re forgetting is that whilst the Internet is a place where you can find information, porn, women, men, political bias and a whole lot more besides, it’s not a magic place where things can exist outside the realm of human imagination.