“…we noticed with Windows Vista was when we tried to transfer a large folder full of files over our 100Base-T network. While XP was able to transfer the 1.37GB folder containing 2606 items in a quick 3:37 (minutes/seconds), the Vista transfer seemed to hesitate at the end, taking a leisurely 12:58 to perform exactly the same copy from one PC to another over our network. Then when we compared the current shipping version of Vista with its upcoming service pack, there wasn’t much difference, with the Service Pack speeding things up by 0.865% in the PCMark tests.The only part of it that’s bugging us is the network file transfer speed got even slower in the SP1 release candidate. Also continuing that bothersome disk speed problem is the way Vista couldn’t read and write on that speedy 15,000rpm SAS drive anywhere near as fast as XP did.” Read the full report (with a tiny bit of good news) at Gizmodo.Com
Gizmodo Tests XP vs Vista vs Vista SP1. (Vista still sucks)
18 January 2008 at 2:50 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Windows Home Server corrupts your files.
29 December 2007 at 2:40 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Microsoft Corp. has warned Windows Home Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with several of its programs, including Vista Photo Gallery and Office’s OneNote and Outlook, as well as files generated by popular finance software such as Quicken and QuickBooks.”When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home Server, the files may become corrupted when you save them to the home server,” Microsoft said in a support document posted last week. Read the full story on ComputerWorld.Com
PC World: Vista The Biggest Tech Disappointment of 2007
20 December 2007 at 2:34 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Hot on the heels of C|Net declaring Windows Vista the Worst Technolgy Product of the last 21 years, PC World has chimed in declaring Windows Vista the number one biggest technology disapointment of 2007.“…No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there’s something deeply wrong with the universe.
We have no doubt Vista will come to dominate the PC landscape, if only because it will become increasingly hard to buy a new machine that doesn’t have it pre-installed. And that’s disappointing in its own right.” Read the full list here. Or jump straight to the #1 disappointment spot.
Updated XP outshines updated Vista in benchmarks
28 November 2007 at 2:17 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
“…Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP’s 35 seconds.Vista’s performance with the service pack increased less than 2 percent compared to performance without SP1–much lower than XP’s SP3 improvement of 10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.In response to the test, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that although the company understood the interest in the service packs, they are “still in development” and will continue to evolve before their release.”
“…A year after its launch, only 13 percent of businesses have adopted Vista, according to a survey of IT professionals.
Microsoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would have liked.” Read the full report on C|Net News
Another reason to stick with XP over Vista.
26 November 2007 at 2:13 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Devil Mountain Software, which earlier in the week claimed Windows Vista SP1 was no faster than the original, repeated some of the same tests on the release candidate of Windows XP SP3, the service pack recently issued to about 15,000 testers.”We were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP SP3 delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS,” said Craig Barth, Devil Mountain’s chief technology officer, in a post to a company blog Friday.Devil Mountain ran its OfficeBench suite of performance benchmarks on a laptop equipped with Office 2007, Microsoft’s latest application suite. The notebook — the same unit used in the Vista/Vista SP1 tests earlier — featured a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory. The results reported a 10% speed increase under XP SP3 when compared to SP2, the service pack released in 2004. Read the full article on ComputerWorld.Com
In Vista’s shadow, XP shines
22 November 2007 at 1:58 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Thinking of moving to Windows Vista? Whether you are or not, it’s becoming more difficult to ignore Microsoft’s latest operating system, as it comes pre-installed on many new computers and generates all the buzz in the papers. Behind all the fanfare, though, lies a seldom discussed secret: Vista may not be right for everyone – at least not yet, and perhaps not for quite some time. And XP, meanwhile, has just gotten better and better. It continues to be the workhorse operating system that can serve most users the best. You can spend a lot of money and time preparing your equipment to run Vista, only to find that after all the effort, you really had everything you needed in Windows XP – and then some. So it pays to go into any migration to Vista with eyes wide open. Here’s a blow-by-blow rundown of just what you’ll be getting yourself into with Vista compared to XP. Read the full article on BangkokPost.Com
Vista migration scaring off IT proffesionals
22 November 2007 at 1:56 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Now more than a year out of the business gate, Microsoft’s Vista operating system is having trouble making friends in the exact place it needs them the most—the IT department.When asked, rather than express excitement over Vista’s promised better security, networking features and fancy GUI, IT professionals admit trepidation over the looming upgrade and the trouble it will cause. “Personally, I’m dreading the amount of time it’ll take to upgrade each machine from a hardware standpoint—adding memory or whatever—and from an operating system upgrade. It’s just time consuming,” Howard Graylin, a senior technical analyst in Ridgeland, Miss., told eWEEK.But technology professionals worry about more than the time it will take to actually migrate, but the inevitable difficulties resulting from an, at times, painfully slow user learning curve. “I also dread the ‘why doesn’t it work like this anymore?’ questions we’ll get from users. My standard answer is, ‘I don’t know. Let me ask Bill [Gates] the next time we have lunch and I’ll get back to you.’ Well, the second sentence is said silently,” jokes Graylin. “I need to keep my job.”
Graylin’s fears are echoed in a study to be released Nov. 19 in which 90 percent of IT professionals reported that they had concerns about migrating to Vista. Read the full article on EWeek.Com
Vista’s upcoming Service Pack fails to add speed to OS
20 November 2007 at 1:54 pm (Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is not measurably faster than the original stock edition, a Florida-based developer of performance testing and network metrics software said Monday.“Microsoft has hinted that SP1 is faster than Vista RTM,” said Craig Barth, the chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software, referring to the release to manufacturing version of the operating system. “But we found pretty much nothing measurable. It surprised me as much as it surprised everyone else, but the numbers are the numbers.” Read the rest of this entry »
In Japan: Mac OS X Sales Up, Windows Vista Sales Down
15 November 2007 at 1:49 pm (Mac, Sekedar......, VistaSuck)
Microsoft’s has taken a bruising in the Japanese marketplace just as Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard was released, according to a new report by the country’s Business Computer News. The publication notes that while sales of Mac OS X increased dramatically between September and October, climbing from a rate of 15.5 percent year-over-year to 60.5 percent, Microsoft suffered from the reverse effect. Sales growth of Windows plummeted from 75.3 percent to 28.7 percent. Read the full article on Electronista.Com (found via MacObserver.Com)
