Microsoft Windows Vista Business FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows Vista Business FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Candor
Summary: 1 Stars
It's difficult for me to type this, even now after months of careful reflection. I'm still a relatively young man, and I don't have a family.
I purchased a new laptop from a Dell affiliate and Vista Home was pre-installed. After a few short days, I upgraded to the "Enterprise" edition. I can't say with certainty if the forthcoming review is an accurate statement on the "Home" edition as my experience was so limited.
The aforementioned events took place about 7 months ago, so I'm a bit foggy on my initial impression of the O.S. In addition, since I installed the O.S. my drinking has increased tenfold. Maybe the tendency was already there, but I would like to think something pushed me to the drink, rather than some predisposition. Specifically, I'm quite confident that "something" was Windows Vista.
Most reviews of the O.S. are bad, and I agree with every one of the sentiments and specific technical problems mentioned above. I'm not going to waste your time re-hashing the wireless internet connectivity failures, blue screen on reboot, routine tasks that now take many times longer than they did under XP, lack of NVidia compatibility, the fact that when you defrag it says something to the effect of "this will take several minutes to several hours" rather than give you a simple status bar, etc...What the reviews fail to communicate effectively, however, is the extreme and outrageous turmoil a man endeaurs when subjecting himself to the O.S.
When navigating the O.S., you are frequently subjected to a barrage of tedium that you have likely not experienced in many years, if at all. The reason is that rudimentary functions on which you have come to rely either a) no longer work or; b) work very poorly, and by that I mean, SLOWLY. It is not infrequent, and frankly, it is not limited to a few obscure functions that I feel could be corrected with a patch/update...Unfortunately, the entire kernel of the O.S. seems to be fundamentally flawed. I've heard that the O.S. is very resource demanding, which logically implies that furnishing it with a substantial rig should fix the problems...I disagree. First of all, my computer is top of the line. Secondly, the problems cited in all of these reviews are not indicative of hardware limitations...they're indicative of lousy programming. There's no reason why cutting and pasting has to be more tedious than threading a needle while drunk (I should know, sadly).
The bottom line is this: Previous to my experience with Vista, I had a relatively tranquil and traditional personal life. Since my experience, however, I am alone and drunk about 90% of the time. My friends and family have abandoned me because apparently I've "changed." For the most part they're right...I have changed. Maybe Vista was the one example of depravity that finally broke my spirit. I can't say that I'm unhappy overall, but I don't know that society needs more people like me...
Save yourself and your family. Do not use Windows Vista. This is very serious, and I mean this with every ounce of what's left of my soul. I have lost so much and feel I now have an obligation to teach others what I know; And to try with what's left of my life to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.
Customer Review: VISTA is GARBAGE - Stick with XP or go to OSX
Summary: 1 Stars
VISTA is nothing but frustration.
I'm the IT administrator for a small business. I've installed virtually every version of DOS and Windows Microsoft has put out since the early 80s. VISTA is the worst operating system I've ever seen. It is BUGGY, UNINTUITIVE, a RESOURCE HOG, and INTRUSIVE. It boils my blood every time I have to use it.
The browse boxes are so unintuitive, it is hard to figure out what Microsoft had in mind. They removed the "up one level" button in favor of a button that gives you a list of your most recently viewed folders. It takes lots more clicking around to get to the folder you want. This is total STUPIDITY.
The wireless networking is so buggy as to be nearly useless. You'll need to continuously reboot your machine to get your connection to work.
You'll come to hate the "whirli-gig" and you'll get lots of NOT RESPONDING messages when you try to launch or use applications. If I had a dollar for every time I got a NOT RESPONDING message, our Dell M1330 laptop would be free by now.
So often, I'll launch an application and the whirli-gig will come on the screen and then I wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . and wait. What is this Core Two Duo laptop doing??? VISTA has so many intrusive processes, it is frustrating to even launch an application (and my machine is a 2.4 GHZ Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive). This machine would fly on XP.
If you enjoy spending lots of time trying to figure out why your machine won't do simple things reliably, if you want to spend lots of time talking to technical support people with thick accents who really can't help you because the operating system is basically JUNK, then by all means buy VISTA.
We are abandoning our VISTA experiment and going back to XP because it is reasonably reliable and because we need to get things done on the computer rather than always battling with its VISTA-isms. VISTA is a huge step backwards for Microsoft and I seriously doubt that Service Pack 1 will be enough to fix such major design flaws. Maybe when they come out with VISTA RELEASE 2 their poor sales will force them to listen to consumers.
I sure wish I could convince all my competitors to buy VISTA machine because it would absorb so much of their resources it would give our business a real boost.
Customer Review: Slow, buggy, not ready for prime time. Stick with Windows XP.
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a web developer and I had a test run of Windows Vista Business on my development machine for about a month. To sum it up -- a terrible and painful experience.
I do most of my work on my Dell 640M laptop:
1.6 GHz Intel Dual Core
Built-in video
2 GB RAM
80 GB hard drive
My laptop came with Windows XP and I got Vista Business as a "free" upgrade, even though I had to pay over $30 for shipping.
First, I installed it as upgrade -- a terrible idea. It was incredibly slow and would freeze on simple tasks like copy/pasting text or files. Many programs would crash or simply would not load.
Off goes the upgrade, on comes the clean install...
Things are better this time around, but boot time is at least twice as slow compared to Windows XP.
Next thing I tried to do is to use a briefcase to synchronize my development projects. There's this big site I'm working on with probably 1000 files in it, and Vista could never quite finish copying all the files to the briefcase over my home network (no such problems with XP). About half-way through, it would just freeze.
The Aero interface looked nice, but I had to disable it because it was just too much for my built-in Intel video chip. Still, simple operations like copy/ paste result in a small freeze, then up comes the system warning which other reviewers mentioned and then finally the "paste" part.
Same 5-10 sec freeze when I do development work and call up some application or try to display a simple HTML page from my local IIS server. Again, no such thing with XP.
Next gripe is the system shutdown. The default option is now "Sleep" which is real fast. But if you select, "Shut Down", prepare to wait. Possibly, forever. All in all, it ends up turning off about 30% of the time, other times you just see the never-ending "Shutting Down..." screen and have to turn the power off manually. All my applications/ drivers are Vista-capable, so this should not be caused by 3rd party application sotware "in theory".
Next, what is up with changing item labels? "Add or Remove Programs" is gone. "Programs and Features" is apparently much cooler according to Microsoft's marketing dept.
I get a feeling that they just moved the stuff around to make it look "newer". There are no improvements and often things are hard to find/ not intuitive on the control panel, in display properties and other areas.
Windows Explorer used to be great. I'd add copy/paste buttons to the toolbar and such operations would be a matter of a few clicks. Not anymore. Even simple browsing ("directory up" for example) buttons are gone. So you go through Desktop, then my computer, then C: to get to your main hard drive partition. Ridiculous!
Applications in general (I work mostly with Adobe/Macromedia Suite -- Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, etc.) run *much* slower on Vista compared to XP, often with the beforementioned freezes whenever a simple operation is performed.
After about 1 month I had enough. Back to Windows XP Professional. Couldn't be happier. Everything is fast, responsive. It lets me do my work without getting in the way just as an operating system *should*.
Sorry Microsoft, I am not going to be a beta tester for your unfinished, bloated product just because it is "new" and shiny. An "upgrade" usually implies a better, faster, more intuitive O/S. Vista offers none of these things except a shiny interface and a few useless visual effects. All they do is drain system resources.
If you're looking for a fast, reliable and secure O/S, go with Windows XP Professional. Don't waste your money on Vista.
Customer Review: Vista Can Put You Out of Business
Summary: 1 Stars
There are serious compatability and speed issues with Vista. Count on much of your current bussiness software not to run. Count on having difficulty downgrading back to Windows XP as Microsoft has rigged Vista to make it difficult to downgrade without buying a new XP from them
Vista is processor and memory heavy. It will dramatically slow older computers. Even with a newer computer it may appear no faster than windows xp and possibly slower. I however, have the home edition on my brand new home computer and it is plenty fast. However, the premium and business editions are much slower and require more memory.
I recommend never to put Vista on a computer with less than a duo core processor and 2 MB of memory. All businsess owners should stay away for at least a year until all compatability issues have been resolved - assuming that is possible.
Customer Review: Microsoft made me move to Mac
Summary: 1 Stars
Last april, I bought a Dell system with Vista business preinstalled. It came with McAfee internet security that was so buggy that I had to uninstall it to improve system performance. The security prompts are very annoying. I have a year old HP2840 color laser and as of Aug 20, I could not even get updated drivers from HP that support network scanning and printing. My existing versions of Adobe CS, Macromedia does not work without an expensive upgrade so I keep the XP machine beside me to print with InDesign and to create PDF's. This OS is so much trouble that I will be reformatting the drive and installing XP over it.
I've stopped using the Mac for the past 4 years because most of my business softwares are PC based. Last year, I took a serious look at Macs again. I can say with certainty that I'm moving my entire office to the Mac platform and Microsoft made this decision for me.