In my rss feed inbox thing (what are you supposed to call it?) I received a link (via kiwiblog) to Peter Griffin’s “Ten good reasons why it’s worth switching to Vista”.
Heh heh, lets get started shall we?
1. Revamped Search
We’ve done a bad job of search up until now (the dog? the weird indexing thing in 98?) so we think we’ve fixed it now. It’s better. It’s no WinFS because we scrapped that, but its a good fix.
2. Better Security
The top two reasons start with a verb? These aren’t new features, they are the proper implementation of the original feature.
3. Dynamic Thumbnails
To quote Peter Griffin:
A nice little feature that displays a thumbnail of the application you are running or the webpage you are visiting when you run your cursor over the task bar.
The key words here are “little feature”.
4. Media Center
Reason to get Vista: Media Center. (XP Media Edition?)
5. Networking
Wha? I thought XP had networking?
It’s been made ‘nicer’.
6. Great Looks And Aero 3D
We made it look nice. Sweeeeet.
7. Built For Gamers
Direct X 10 and you can make your games Xbox Live probably by paying Microsoft.
8. Readyboost
You can plug in a USB flash drive and have your commonly used programs run off it for a speed boost. Interesting.
9. Gadgets
This has been done before but it’s a useful feature. Yahoo Widgets
10. Parental Controls
Yaaaaarrrr. Pretty cool but nothing to write home about.
Out of the 10 reasons to get vista:
3 are fixes
5 are small features
none are good reasons to get Vista.
It’s worth noting at this point that some people like to put fish into the recepie at this stage. Sometimes canned salmon, sometimes tuna. Don’t do it.
Hopefully everyone knows this.
I, however, plan to get Vista as soon as Halo 2 comes out. :(.
Halo 2? You mean 3 right?
Just to add to your list, the reason dx10 is vista only (aside from sales to people like you) is because they finally changed the driver model or some such to get rid of some the overhead involved in sending small batches to the graphics card. Overhead which OpenGL never had.
This post is mostly satire. As I understand a lot of the changes from XP to Vista are under the hood and great for developers.
Halo 2 has yet to be released off the xbox platform (as I understand… am I living under a rock?). I’ve heard that when released it’s going to be vista only to increase sales.
I like to think I’m objective about the whole XP vs OS X and general slagging on Windows. Sure I like OS X more and think it’s a better OS, but I still know about Windows and agree that there are great parts of it and for some people it’s paradigm is great and very useable. I hope I’m not a blind zealot.
So yeah… tongue in cheek.
Ah, right. Halo 2 seems long past though. Been there, done that, didn’t buy any t-shirts. Halo is the one shooter I prefer to play on a console. I was disappointed that they took out rally though. That’s always so much fun, fighting to be the first to get your warthog up the ramp and get the checkpoint.
I don’t honestly care about vista, I can’t afford it so it’s a moot point. I admit though, I may be slightly jealous of all the people strutting around geforce 8800’s and experimenting with dx10.
May I ask, why vista came out with so many versions? Are the cheaper ones the same as the more expensive just with some of the features taken out? Is there more to it? To me it seams a waste of time.
Probably no more than to ‘fit’ the market better. Get the most money.
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I see. So is it possible to buy the cheapest most basic version, then slowly upgrade to the better features through buying them separately/ downloading? Or is it that if you buy ‘crap’ you’re stuck with ‘crap’ until you buy one of the better versions?
Another question is vista still running of dos like xp or have they redone the whole thing? Meaning did they start from scratch or simply add things?
XP is not running on DOS. Neither was Windows 2000.
Vista is a significant addition on top of XP, but it is still built from it.
I don’t know about upgrade options, I am not considering purchasing it soon.