Fresh News Regarding Vista

Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News

January24th2008


Remeber Vista? That failure not-so-good-as-expected operating system from Microsoft? Well, despite the low customer satisfaction degree, sales don't look that bad, especially since computer sales all over the world exploded, and the OEM market is clearly dominated by Microsoft, so a lot of people end up with a Vista computer, no matter how much they want it. Anyway, according to recent reports, the first service pack gets closer and closer (while the second patch for Leopard is near), and some voices also claim that Vista is "most secure". Interesting, so let's see...
Vista package

First, let's talk about the "secure" part. According to Microsoft's Steve Wilson, "During Windows XP's first year, updates were released on 26 separate days.", while "Through a combination of the move to a predictable monthly release schedule, and decreased vulnerabilities, Windows Vista had updates released on just nine days in its first year. To the average security professional, this is one of the most relevant metrics: how many times did I have to activate my internal patch management process due to vendor update releases over the course of a year?"

No, Mr. Wilson, I don't think this is true. If you release less patches, that doesn't mean the system is more secure. In fact, Vista manages to be much more annoying than Windows XP, and I don't think that petition was initiated by a bunch of oldies still dreaming about CP/M...

On the other hand, let me throw one "conspiration theory" into the pot - most people using Vista are not professionals, and so those attacking the Windows platform didn't move to this OS yet, simply because breaking into a Vista computer has less chances to deliver interesting results than a Windows XP system. Well, it's just a thought, don't pin me to the wall!

I was just about to forget...the first service pack to Vista! Everyone is expecting it, especially corporate users and gamers that didn't move to Vista yet because what they heard or experienced with the new OS. What do we have for now? It's only just another Beta, without any significant improvements, especially when it comes to the performance issue on low-end PCs.

These being said, the news is...there's really no news, and if you didn't make the downgrade upgrade to Vista, you still have to wait some time until this is really an option. We'll keep you in touch with the evolution of this situation, don't worry!

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2 Comments on Fresh News Regarding Vista

  • On 01/29/2008 at 8:02 pm Gene Thomas said:

    I have used Windows in its original verion (worthless), thru 95, 98, ME, XP, and now Vista. I have had no problems with Vista. It has perfomed well. I suspect that most problems have ensued from installing Vista on an XP machine. But whatever the case, it does the job at least as well as XP with all its service packs when run on a truly compatable computer.

    Many of the complaints that I have seen center on either slimming it down to increase speed, or an inability (or unwillingness) to learn the new system.

    Speaking of speed, I bought a Vista machine (Dell) with a 2.13 ghz dual core processor and 2 gb of ram. It is FAST.

  • On 01/30/2008 at 3:52 am Kudos said:

    Vista sucks big time! It's a bad copy of apple os, plus it takes a lot of resources to run. I'm so sorry for microsoft and i'm so sorry for those users that have to endure the pain of vista! I think lot's of people will switch to Apple. Leopard is a powerful OS and it's far more advanced that VISTA! Touche for Apple that took one step further in the interaction of human and computer. Great features, usability and design!

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