Comment Wrong, Totally Wrong (Score 1) 607
7. Five Versions: The array of Vista editions could prove to be three too many, and upgrades between versions remain an unknown.
The five versions are nothing complicated. They are well explained on the box and on Microsoft's website. You can upgrade between versions and this even is well described on Microsoft's website.
8. Activation: The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
Vista has automatic activation 3 days after installation. Once again, not complicated or wasting time.
9. Storage Space: With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Vista only requires 5-6gb. Your drive will however show 10-11gb used and this is because of the service called Volume Shadow Copy, this basically allows you to revert back to previous versions of folders/files. Also the thing about fast drives is slightly wrong. The first time you run windows it will be slightly slower than subsequent runs because of a service called SmartFetch. This service monitors how you use your computer and over time increases performance.
You do not need a top of the line computer to run Vista. An example was when I had to use 1gb ram [I have 2gb but one of the chips stopped working] and noticed Vista was using up 700mb ram. This made me wonder how will I play games properly, so I loaded up a game and started playing for a few minutes and then alt tabbed and my ram usage dropped to 300mb. Vista is very efficient and good at managing whatever resources it has available. I know a friend who managed to install a very old build [4744] on a pentium 2. After disabling the visual effects and a few services it runs quite fast. [Btw RTM is faster than all the previous builds, just incase you didn't know it :P]
About the difficulty of using Vista, nothing is totally different to XP aside from UAC [User Account Control] and this is pretty obvious anyways. So training won't be costly.
The five versions are nothing complicated. They are well explained on the box and on Microsoft's website. You can upgrade between versions and this even is well described on Microsoft's website.
8. Activation: The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
Vista has automatic activation 3 days after installation. Once again, not complicated or wasting time.
9. Storage Space: With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Vista only requires 5-6gb. Your drive will however show 10-11gb used and this is because of the service called Volume Shadow Copy, this basically allows you to revert back to previous versions of folders/files. Also the thing about fast drives is slightly wrong. The first time you run windows it will be slightly slower than subsequent runs because of a service called SmartFetch. This service monitors how you use your computer and over time increases performance.
You do not need a top of the line computer to run Vista. An example was when I had to use 1gb ram [I have 2gb but one of the chips stopped working] and noticed Vista was using up 700mb ram. This made me wonder how will I play games properly, so I loaded up a game and started playing for a few minutes and then alt tabbed and my ram usage dropped to 300mb. Vista is very efficient and good at managing whatever resources it has available. I know a friend who managed to install a very old build [4744] on a pentium 2. After disabling the visual effects and a few services it runs quite fast. [Btw RTM is faster than all the previous builds, just incase you didn't know it
About the difficulty of using Vista, nothing is totally different to XP aside from UAC [User Account Control] and this is pretty obvious anyways. So training won't be costly.
