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I've just spent the last 10 days or so bringing up my new Vaio SZ440 that
came with Vista Business installed. It's been a struggle -- I've had to
find workarounds to get a lot of my software and hardware running, and there
are still one or two things that just won't work under Vista. Some of the
problems result from incompatible drivers or software and, presumably, will
be fixed by the product manufacturers with patches or driver updates.
Others, however, are clearly Vista bugs (for example, IP stack corruption).
All of that aside, however, my laptop is now ticking like a well-oiled clock
and I find there is a lot to like about the OS. On my machine, it's
lightning fast, very smooth and, though not crash-proof, I have to work very
hard to bring it down. I'll note, though, that I've disabled UAC and
Windows Defender. The former is too much of a pain, and there are good
third-party alternatives for the latter. As soon as I can find a
Vista-compatible one, I'll replace Windows Firewall as well. I like
Gadgets -- it's nice to have weather radar on my desktop whenever I need it.
The only remaining serious bug is slow file transfers over the network. I'm
getting around that by using FTP at home, but that's like going backwards 20
years. Microsoft has to address that issue.
Also, I'm pretty good with computers and my abilities were severely taxed by
trying to find workarounds and alternative methods for getting software and
hardware to run. I can't imagine what a naive use would do -- probably give
up and buy a Mac.
I'm sure a lot of the trouble is attibutable simply to Vista being a new OS.
As it ages and more computers ship with it, it will become the standard for
hardware and software developers and everything will run fine out of the
box. For now, though, I'd discourage any early adopters from trying it
unless they're really familiar with what's going on "under the hood."
came with Vista Business installed. It's been a struggle -- I've had to
find workarounds to get a lot of my software and hardware running, and there
are still one or two things that just won't work under Vista. Some of the
problems result from incompatible drivers or software and, presumably, will
be fixed by the product manufacturers with patches or driver updates.
Others, however, are clearly Vista bugs (for example, IP stack corruption).
All of that aside, however, my laptop is now ticking like a well-oiled clock
and I find there is a lot to like about the OS. On my machine, it's
lightning fast, very smooth and, though not crash-proof, I have to work very
hard to bring it down. I'll note, though, that I've disabled UAC and
Windows Defender. The former is too much of a pain, and there are good
third-party alternatives for the latter. As soon as I can find a
Vista-compatible one, I'll replace Windows Firewall as well. I like
Gadgets -- it's nice to have weather radar on my desktop whenever I need it.
The only remaining serious bug is slow file transfers over the network. I'm
getting around that by using FTP at home, but that's like going backwards 20
years. Microsoft has to address that issue.
Also, I'm pretty good with computers and my abilities were severely taxed by
trying to find workarounds and alternative methods for getting software and
hardware to run. I can't imagine what a naive use would do -- probably give
up and buy a Mac.
I'm sure a lot of the trouble is attibutable simply to Vista being a new OS.
As it ages and more computers ship with it, it will become the standard for
hardware and software developers and everything will run fine out of the
box. For now, though, I'd discourage any early adopters from trying it
unless they're really familiar with what's going on "under the hood."
