I've been toying with Vista ever since the Longhorn days, and I can say that things have gotten much better in Beta 2, but they still have a long way to go.
I am currently working on a performance report regarding both versions of Vista and WinXP, and I can say that it seems XP has nothing to be worried about. Yes, this is a BETA. But there are many programs that will simply not work in Vista, including Sandra, Sciencemark 64-Bit, ACDSee.. and others.
The 64-Bit version of Vista seems to be more buggy than the 32-Bit. While Sandra was problematic in the 32-Bit version, it would not work at all in the 64-Bit. The modules simply would not load, even when logged in as administrator. Battlefield II is another problem. While the game played 'ok' in 32-Bit, it took 10 level loads in 64-Bit before it would actually load, so I could perform some benchmarking.
Vista is due out in early 2007, which means if Microsoft is sticking to that date, they will need to have the final retail copy ready by at least the end of September. This would allow for mass production and shipping of the copies to OEMs and stores in order to be ready for launch. That leaves them roughly 4 months to iron out all of these bugs? Seems unlikely in my opinion.
If you have toyed with Vista, I am sure you know where I am coming from. Ever since they started releasing the 5*** alphas and betas, I have never had some of the same programs work. I had hoped since Beta 2 is essentially RC1, that these problems were taken care of, but not so.
For those who have used it now or before, what do you think so far?
I am currently working on a performance report regarding both versions of Vista and WinXP, and I can say that it seems XP has nothing to be worried about. Yes, this is a BETA. But there are many programs that will simply not work in Vista, including Sandra, Sciencemark 64-Bit, ACDSee.. and others.
The 64-Bit version of Vista seems to be more buggy than the 32-Bit. While Sandra was problematic in the 32-Bit version, it would not work at all in the 64-Bit. The modules simply would not load, even when logged in as administrator. Battlefield II is another problem. While the game played 'ok' in 32-Bit, it took 10 level loads in 64-Bit before it would actually load, so I could perform some benchmarking.
Vista is due out in early 2007, which means if Microsoft is sticking to that date, they will need to have the final retail copy ready by at least the end of September. This would allow for mass production and shipping of the copies to OEMs and stores in order to be ready for launch. That leaves them roughly 4 months to iron out all of these bugs? Seems unlikely in my opinion.
If you have toyed with Vista, I am sure you know where I am coming from. Ever since they started releasing the 5*** alphas and betas, I have never had some of the same programs work. I had hoped since Beta 2 is essentially RC1, that these problems were taken care of, but not so.
For those who have used it now or before, what do you think so far?
No way am I putting it on my main drives!
