Vista vs XP: Performance tested, and Vista is slower
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| There's plenty of negative press about Vista, but how much of it is fear of
| change and trendy Microsoft-bashing? We put Vista head-to-head with its
| biggest rival - XP - to see how Microsoft's new OS performs
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http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/601470/vista-vs-xp-performance-tested-and-vista-is-slower.html
Wow. To repeat:
The Vista wow becomes a whisper
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| I wasn’t a big fan of the “Wow” campaign around Windows Vista. But its newest
| incarnation — “100 Reasons Why Everyone’s So Speechless” — might be even
| worse.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=851
Reason #101: you can get more coffee while the damn thing is booting.
Related:
Bustin’ malware!
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| Whenever a Windows PC starts to misbehave - running slow, crashing,
| locking up, displaying odd messages and so forth - there are chance
| that the problem is down to some sneaky malware that’s made it onto
| the system.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=598
My View: Vista Takes Too Many Clicks to do the Job
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| I think in this case Microsoft engineers really missed the mark
| in this regard and I'll write more soon about similar issues
| with too many keystrokes in Office 2007.
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http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2007/03/my_view_vista_t.html
Vista Irritations
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| According to this Slashdot article, copying, moving and deleting
| files is slower under Vista. At least now I know why extracting a
| compressed file under Vista is like watching paint dry/grass grow
| (I've only tried using Winzip 11).
|
| [...]
|
| Now we name our directory and it?s done right? Not quite, because
| after typing your directory name and pressing enter, it's time
| for yet more prompts...
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http://harrisben.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/vista-irritations/
Vista: Slow and Dangerous
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| Most of the time I spent testing Vista was with sluggish pre-release
| versions. I expected things to improve when I ran the finished software
| on PCs configured for the new Windows version. I now realize that
| Vista really is slow unless you throw a lot of hardware at it.
| Microsoft claims it will run with 512 megabytes of memory. I had
| recommended a minimum of a gigabyte, but 2 GB is more like it if
| you want snappy performance.
|
| [...]
|
| The most exasperating thing about Vista, though, is the security
| feature called User Account Control. UAC, satirized in an Apple
| ad as a security guy who constantly interrupts a conversation,
| appears as a pop-up asking permission before Windows...
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http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/BusinessWeek/2007/03/26/3124001
Copying files across LAN with Vista is deathly slow
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| Copying files from my XP video capture pc to my Vista pc is 3 times
| slower than copying from my XP video capture PC to my old XP PC.
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/109009593831
Copying files across LAN with Vista is deathly slow
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| Copying files from my XP video capture pc to my Vista pc is 3 times
| slower than copying from my XP video capture PC to my old XP PC.
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http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/109009593831
The copy process may stop responding when you try to copy files from a server
on a network to a Windows Vista-based computer
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| On a Windows Vista-based computer, when you try to copy files from a
| server on a network, the copy process may stop responding (hang), and
| you may receive a message that resembles the following:
|
| Calculating Time Remaining
|
| 0 minutes remaining
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931770
Your expense = my revenue
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| "Windows is a money making machine for everyone involved" - but
| describing it as really a kind of work for welfare scheme in which
| everyone wins -except the customer to whom it's a cost, and the
| national economy for which it's a productivity sink.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=803
Analyst slams Vista's 'backward' UI
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| Windows Vista is a step back in usability, researcher claims
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17334
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