14 Responses to “Microsoft Vista – Is it the most secure system?”

1. willhaynes Posted: Jan 28th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

   1 I’ve got to say, I have vista installed on my new laptop over this way and although it might be a step up security wise, I don’t think it has anything else going for it. Right now it is way too buggy, it seems that as soon as you put any pressure on it (open photoshop, and firefox, and thunderbird, and apache…) it starts to freeze up, the animations get slow etc. this might be a problem with my RAM, but really, I have 1GB of ram, that should be plenty for what I am doing! And almost everything that they have changed from XP to Vista navigation wise has been a pain in the butt. I hate the new startmenu, I would much rather it open out into folders, and I don’t see the point in the gadget sidebar. That being said I probably wouldn’t go back go XP for the main reason that I like the way vista feels. It feels new and inviting, and XP feels just old and dirty. Maybe an vista skin for XP… :p wow, that was a long comment, I hope it made sense.. Reply to this comment.

2. willhaynes Posted: Jan 28th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

   2 oh ya, I just remembered what bugs me the most about vista…. the fact that when you press ctrl + alt + del , you are taken to the stupid screen before you can open the task monitor. Reply to this comment.

3. derek Posted: Jan 28th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

   3 hi, i agreed that windows vista is far too buggy now. For me, i would not change over to vista till maybe its stablised, with fewer or no bugs. Currently i am using windows xp pro and i have customized my theme in such a way that it looks exactly like windows vista. Reply to this comment.

4. bud Posted: Jan 29th, 2008 at 8:22 am

   4 Author Comment @ willhaynes 2gb ram is minimum for Vista in my opinion. My work machine and desktop at home both have 4gb and my laptop has 2gb (soon to be 4). Vista is very resource intensive. @ derek I agree there is some buggy issues. I hope when SP1 comes out soon it will help. Reply to this comment.

5. Jack Posted: Jan 29th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

   5 Vista kills me like anything. I tried to use it, but proved in vain. I struggled a lot to get rid of this thing from my system. Reply to this comment.

6. mann3r Posted: Jan 30th, 2008 at 9:52 am

   6 My sister brought her laptop to my place with vista basic installed in it. I just dont like the felling of using, there are problems that I had encountered, so what I do is uninstall it and use XP instead. Maybe I shall return to Vista after they have been cleared on all issues. Reply to this comment.

7. willhaynes Posted: Jan 30th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

   7 For anyone who is just doing email checking and light web surfing I would defiantly recommend vista, as it has a much nicer overall feel to it. but if you are doing more advanced stuff then I would go with the stability of XP over the buggyness of vista of. oh, and another thing that ‘grinds my gears’ about vista is that it prompts you about EVERTHING. bugs the hell out of me. Reply to this comment.

8. bud Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 8:42 am

   8 Author Comment For me the big thing for me has been drivers. I have a 8800gts in my desktop and it took 3 months after vista was released to get non-beta drivers. Hopefully they will get their act together for the Vista replacement. Reply to this comment.

9. mann3r Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 12:43 pm

   9 I believe microsoft stop producing XP to give or forced users to go into Vista, though support will still be in, but productions of licensed copies will be stop. Reply to this comment.

10. willhaynes Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    10 All in all though, i think that vista will be fine. People will forget what XP is like, and vista will be more natural to them… it is having a wobbly start though Reply to this comment.

11. mann3r Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    11 @willhaynes just like how people embrace XP Reply to this comment.

12. willhaynes Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    12 I dont really remember the launch of XP, was it bad as well?? the only thing that I can relate the launch of vista to is the launch of leopard… which was amazing. Very few complains, and almost 80% of all macs have leopard installed! (try saying that for Microsoft… ha) Reply to this comment.

13. mann3r Posted: Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    13 actually when XP was launch, it was accepted mostly by end-users, they have saw it as a revolution of windows after win2k. The problem of Vista is the release of its OS with too many holes unlike the launch of XP Reply to this comment.

14. bud Posted: Feb 1st, 2008 at 11:58 am

    14 Author Comment The xp launch was okay it didn’t get a lot of acceptance until sp1. I hope that applies in Vista’s case as well. The biggest thing has been driver and application support my 3rd parties. I do have a feeling though Vista is going to become like ME and will be swept under the rug. Reply to this comment.