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Re: [News] [Rival] Windows Vista = XP with Less Applications, Less Speed, More Bugs

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:09:01 +0000, BearItAll wrote:

>> | # “(Vista has) no speed boost” - A dedicated performance team inside the
>> |    Windows development division focused solely on how to improve
>> |    Solitaire’s frame rate.
>> |
> 
> I have heard that too, so many on first boot coming into the chat group I
> use saying, on their first night with it 'It loads and runs faster than XP'
> then a few days later 'Actually, now that the anti-virus, security suite,
> ten million things that insist on being on the bar next to the clock,
> screen widgets (simmilar to those you get with Opera), by the time all of
> this is going you have had breakfast waiting for it to start up and all
> your resources are gone'.

I just fired up Vista on a Toshiba P200. It's really quite awful.
Constantly getting their new version of the "hourglass icon" and waiting
for stuff. It's definitely slower than XP.



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