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Vista wasn't a great operating system. but why did it have these problems? |
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Just the hardware was not ready for it, Microsoft was not ready for that either. |
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Windows Vista is actually a good operating system, i don't have any problems with windows vista. Its a great system and pretty fast. |
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Vista was rushed out, and a good portion of the technologies that could have made it great was left on the cutting room floor. Instead of being a revolutionary new operating system, it turned out to be a graphical update that couldn't run on a great deal of the integrated graphics controllers on the market at the time. With the popularity of sub-$400 desktop PC's at the time, a large number of systems running older IGP cards were released with Vista pre-installed, leading to a lackluster OS experience. ALso, the early implementation of UAC made me want to punch LCD's. It was a complete mess. Windows 7 was dealt a far better hand hardware-wise. It's still not what it could be. I really want MS to pick up development on WinFS again. Windows 7 also still suffers from a major graphical bloat problem, and there aren't many options for completely shutting down the eye candy (Although you can go further than you could in Vista.) UAC came along quite well also, becoming less of a nuisance and more of a highly configurable tool. It will be awhile before we really get a feel for Windows 7 in the corporate world, with the snails pace that corporations plan updates, but I feel that Windows 7 will rise to the challenge of replacing XP, and fill XP's shoes well. |
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I think one main one was IE7 which caused you to get viruses very easily but as an average user I never had any issues with it. I do like win7 more mainly just because I haven't had any problems with it yet. |
