This has been a rather hellish week for me. I work a lot, I get a lot of personal chores done and I like to have a fair amount of fun. Updating my PC or building a PC is a chore to me. I spent this week working on building a new Computer with Windows Vista Ultimate on it. This is not fun anymore.
Microsoft polished up a few things in the installation process for Windows Vista Ultimate. The installation was a lot smoother than I thought it could be. Everything from there goes downhill.
Cons
1. A lot of programs are not working in Vista.
2. Annoying new security features (which Apple is already making fun of in their TV ads)
3. Driver Hell. This is inexcusable.
4. Its seems Microsoft hid the blue screen of death. Sweeping dirt under the rug isn't fixing the issue.
5. Seems to run as if its still a Beta Software.
6. Have to switch to classic mode yet again. The menu with a scroll sucks. Everything else looks new and shinny and they put a freaking scroll bar in the menu! I will have to switch back and forth to use goodies in the cool menu. WTF!
7. No Power off Button on the welcome screen. Windows XP has this feature. How come Windows Vista "Ultimate" Doesn't?
Pros:
1. Install was quick and fairly painless, more so than all previous versions of Windows. The system hang at the end is not cool. They do not warn you about that.
2. Everything looks great except the damn scroll bar they put in the menu.
3. Aero Theme kicks ass.
4. Still more Killer Aps than Apple. Sorry I don't need Pro Tools Danjel.
5. Forces administration, I have a love/hate feel about this feature.
Now to be fair. When XP first came out I was running Win2K for a year before I switched over. A lot of drivers did not work and I had fewer PCs than I do know. Parts are so cheap now that it doesn't hurt to build a new box more often now. I remember when I paid 400 for a K7 550 MHz AMD processor and a motherboard. My first 386 home PC was $3000. Now I can get a whole PC for that 400 bucks and its a P4 thats faster than 3 Ghz. So if it takes time to grow into Vista and switch between the two it doesn't hurt me so much since I can afford having multiple PCs and a KVM switch. Before I only had one rig with a few small drives. Lets see how it works in a year.
