Windows Vista RC1 Impresses Critics

bradley fellows writes "Early feedback from testers already using Windows Vista RC1 (Release Candidate 1) report that the OS is more stable than expected, which bodes well for Microsoft's plan to have Vista out according to its current schedule." Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for a PC.

Slashdot Beta Testing?

[Dareth]

Seemed to be bit of trouble logging in to Slashdot this morning...?

Taco, please tell us you are not testing Vista RC1 for Microsoft!

Re:Interesting spin

[jspectre]

add 'em up and you got "not ready for stable prime time".. in other words, it's windows!

Correction

[Anonymous Coward]

Mind you, "expected" is relative given how many users regard their frequent crashes as normal operation for Windows.

Backhanded compliment: I'm sure Vista is already more usable than Gnome.

yay

[cwebb1977]

Even smaller applications such as Solitaire and Minesweeper games have a next-generation look and feel in Windows Vista RC1, Brust said. "It's a trivial example, but it shows a certain attention to detail [on the part of Microsoft]," he said.

Just what I f*cking wanted. New-look minesweeper. Thanks!

I'm sold!

[10Ghz]

Even smaller applications such as Solitaire and Minesweeper games have a next-generation look and feel in Windows Vista RC1

That settles it! Come on Vista, my credit-card is ready!

Re:The Emperor's Clothes

[Esion Modnar]

a place where every big, corporate business wants to be

Every big corporate business with aspirations to be evil sees Microsoft as a comrade. Of course they want to do business with them.

Re:Huh?

[Alphager]

I only use Commercial software (MS Office, MS Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Norton's AntiVirus).

You Sir are a Troll. As if being "commercial" does magically increase the stability of software. Ged rid of that Norton-abomination and report back.

Re:Huh?

[RemovableBait]

Not only are you a troll, but you're a troll that needs to defrag...

Re:Holy Crap!

[rbochan]

Oh wait, there's hearts and spider too! Never mind.

Re:I run computers from the trash.

[Anonymous Coward]

M$ is teh \/\/0r$7! Only losers use any software from Money$oft! They bluescreen constantly d00d! M$ sucks!

Everyone I know who uses M$ products has to reboot at least 5 times an hour. 5 times an hour! My main system is a 386 with 8 meg ram running Gentoo, which I use to tell time. It has NEVER crashed or bluescreened on me.

BTW, you have totally l337 uptime!

Vista CPU utilization

[GodWasAnAlien]

20% - Windows Bug updates
20% - Media DRM
20% - Virus Scanner
10% - WGA verfification
10% - MS Paperclip
20% - Other

This post has been updated with new security enhancements. It is recommended that you reboot.

Yes - Reboot Now
No - Reboot Later

Re:Huh?

[Lars T.]

It's a nega-dupe!

Re:Huh?

[Tweekster]

Let me know when you find that one guy that likes clippy, he needs the crap beaten out of him
No matter how inexperienced the user i have never EVER heard of anything but curses when it comes to clippy.

It was an idiotic idea then, it is an idiotic idea now, the developers should be banned from the industry and the managers should be all fired.

Re:Huh?

[liloldme]

XP blue screens pretty regularly on my Dell laptop. Don't know how faulty their hardware is but I'd expect less frequent crashes no matter what.