For you techies who love to hate vista.

tpunx99GSX · 01-04-2008

While looking for the group policy with vista, I stumbled across this blog of Nick White, the Product manager of Windows Vista. He talks about how and when to benchmark an OS particularly Windows Vista. I read about 3 paragraphs when I decided “I absolutely want to hear what people commented on this!” So I scrolled down to the end of the blog where people add comments…. Purely classic. Enjoy.

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...rformance.aspx

One of my favorite posts:

“The right time to assess Vista's performance would have been a year and a half ago before this atrocity hit the market. I set up networks for a living so CRAZY ME, I actually really tested an apples to apples performance comparison - identical machines two P4 3GHz and 2 Core 2 2.6GHz - each with identical hard drives, identical network cards, identical memory. I disabled all bells and whistles on each - Antivirus, firewall, etc etc - updated to the latest drivers.

Then I actually TESTED performance - file copies to a server (large files, small files, groups of files), copied files from a server, copied files between two hard drives, and to the same hard drive - performance could easily take up to 8 times longer on Vista - HOW THE HECK DID THAT GET OVERLOOKED? I still have a couple of machines for testing as they said - must be drivers - blah blah blah - performance is still less than 50% of XP. Why would anyone want to switch to vista. I wouldn't buy a new ferrari and then put a speed governor on it that reduces HP by half.

Vista is an abomination that cannot be fixed.

If I saw a house that was infested with mold, termites, lead paint and asbestos - logic dictates - wiping it out and starting from scratch would be the course of action. Vista is dead - throw it in the heap with Clippy, Windows ME and BOB. It's time to cart that horse to a glue factor and start on XP 2009. Vista was a spectacular failure and unless Ballmer can get that through his fat head - he could single handedly reverse the empire that Bill built.”

**1ViciousGSX** · 01-04-2008

How else are they supposed to make you buy bigger, better, faster, components for your already lightening fast PC?

By building a power hungry, soak up all your PC resources OS. That's how.

Dizmm · 01-05-2008

They make Vista have so much eye candy, but yet it just confuses 90% of the population out there. The other 10% are the IT guys. I run a PC business where we sell/service PC's, Vista is just not working out for about 95% of the people that purchase it.

clean2g · 01-07-2008

Not the mention the like, 20 different versions? We tried running VMWare on a Vista server with 4 gigs of ram.. it couldn't handle it. I'm glad I switched to Mac. Granted, both OS's have their own bugs and flaws, and OS X is not perfect either, but at least it will still perform. XP was probably Microsoft's best OS. They should've just polished it up and redesigned parts of the back-end. It's sad, because we run Windows VMs on Linux servers because it's more reliable, than to run Windows VMs on Windows servers.

**Kracka** · 01-07-2008

I want XP back.

X Factor · 01-07-2008

Pussies, just buy moar RAMZ

MustGoFaster · 01-07-2008

If you build your own PC you can get XP. If you buy a new PC from a store, your first action should be to remove the hard drive and place it in a microwave. Cook till on fire. After that's done, buy a new HD and a copy of XP.

**scheides** · 01-07-2008

Anyone ready to buy a mac yet? I've been using one as my main workstation (and yes I'm in IT) for the last 2 years and could not be happier. Microsoft can go smoke a pole!

If you think Vista is bad, anyone ever used their x64 edition server products? Probably one of the biggest piles of garbage I've ever seen, until vista came along. Lots and lots of stuff simply does not work!

X Factor · 01-07-2008

I haven't gotten a mac for personal use yet, but I am getting an intel mac book pro from work pretty soon.

I do agree with you Scheides, 64bit XP was garbage, lacked a lot of driver support I know for sure, probably had other issues, but I never bothered trying it. And Vista was nowhere near ready for release, and even after SP1 it still won't be what it should have been on release.

It's an enterprise nightmare, slowing down network transfer speeds to a crawl is completely inexcusable.

I use it at home, and it's fine, i've almost never had problems with it, but there is no reason to ever switch to it at work, especially since the majority if it's issues will affect enterprise users more so than home users.

MustGoFaster · 01-07-2008

I like my games, so no MAC for me.

**scheides** · 01-07-2008

bootcamp yo!

MustGoFaster · 01-07-2008

Intresting. But I'm still not getting one any time soon. I have used them before, but that was back in highshool. When all computers sucked (compared to now).

X Factor · 01-07-2008

If I ever buy a laptop, which I want to, it will be a Mac. I like to diversify, and being an IT guy I need to be able to help people no matter what platform they are on, and as of now i'm a total mac newb. So i'm trying to push myself in with a mac book, but I just can't afford the price tag with all my money going into my car. /guilty

Onefast99gsx · 01-08-2008

I'm a network admin at a bank. We will not be putting in on any of our systems for a long time if at all. Or at least till they stop supporting XP with patches and stuff. I have Vista Premium Ed on my new laptop and it's nothing all that great. The 3d menuing is cool but I don't even use that.