I really love (er hate actually) Windows Vista
October 28th, 2007 by Giles SmithApparently my product code is not valid for vista, so if i need to contact
vista support if is going to cost me £46, even though I have a valid copy of
vista home premium.I have been benchmarking vista against fedora 7 on hardware (aparently
designed for vista) Intel E6600 with 2Gb DDR2 RAM. Fedora 7 completed its
benchmarks on an average of 43.67% faster than windows vista. That is quite a
margin! Also for anyone that is interested, Windows XP completed the same
benchmarks 39.24% faster than vista.What am I supposed to conclude from this other than vista is a complete
waste of money. On a software side, there isn’t actually anything in vista
that can’t be done in windows XP or Fedora 7 as far as I can see. Well
actually vista has some better tools for looking after your hard drive built
in, than XP. but that appears to be it!Anyway. I would quite like my money back, I already have XP, and most Linux
Flavours are free. If I wanted to pay money I would have bought a MAC…
Yeah after Microsoft told me that I apparently have to pay £46 to even try to ask a question about my new Vista set up, I decided it was time to see what all the vista fuss was about. Sadly I realised Microsoft have released what I can only call “A waste of money”
Maybe they will try to rescue vista just like they rescued XP after a couple of years of people complaining about it. But really Bill you have outdone yourself this time. If I wanted to pay money for shit, I would have asked Stig.
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November 5th, 2007 at 10:45 am
The old Windows Vista love/hate thing…
A friend over on his blog recently posted about his love, err, hate of windows Vista.
Now me, I quite like it actually, it looks funky, runs perfectly fine on my lappy and hasn’t crashed once since I installed it. It’s a welcome addition an…
March 7th, 2008 at 1:39 am
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