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Windows Vista gets closer to releaseby Samia Sehgal - September 5, 2006 - 1 comments
 The new version of the operating system that sits on more than 90 percent of the world's PCs is finally here. Microsoft Corp. has launched the Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 after making us wait for long. Windows Vista will be made available to large-volume business customers in November before its general launch which is scheduled for January, 2007. Microsoft, the world’s biggest software maker, first made Windows Vista RC1 available to a small group of technical customers on Friday, Sept. 1, and plans to broadly release the code to current Windows Vista Customer Preview Program (CPP) participants this week. Since recent Vista revisions have been focusing on improving performance, compatibility, and stability rather than adding features, there's not much that is truly new and requires major highlighting. “Now that we're expanding the Windows Vista Customer Preview Program, an even broader audience will get to experience just how much Windows Vista has to offer," said Mike Sievert, corporate vice president for Windows Client Marketing at Microsoft. "The expansion of the CPP program really sends a strong message to the industry and our customers: the time to prepare for Windows Vista has arrived." Along with the Release Candidate 1, Microsoft also announced U.S. estimated retail pricing for all editions of Windows Vista for both business and consumer users. Prices for the editions remain unchanged compared with the equivalent Windows XP editions, and the prices of some editions were found to be constant since Windows 95. Microsoft announced Estimated Retail Pricing for All Windows Vista Editions. All Windows Vista editions have their prices made available online at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/editions/default.mspx, along with additional information on the various editions. |
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I have Build 5536 running on an AMD Athlon 64 and also on a MacBookPro. The installers went smooth as silk, taking about 45 mins, Aero Glass looks good but it is nothing spectacular. On the Apple many Mac specific drivers are not there yet, also neither is the Program Compatibility Wizard icon that is linked from the Vista desktop during the install.
The TOTAL re-arrangement of the user interface, Control Panels and even the toolbar for Internet Explorer is actaully going to be a big time-waster...many experienced users of Windows XP will be LOST for several days as they fumble thru oddball menus and Icons that were never there in XP, and later find the things they need are renamed and moved to totally new locations.
Other than the gooey Look and Feel (an attempt to mimic Mac OSX, which is far better than Vistas look) they have actually gone backwards with this OS design. I predict major user disappointment, and frustration.
As for Security....the User will be making More of the choices about what is allowed to Install or Run, so the actual workload to maintain this OS will possibly double the number of clicks and dialog boxes that a person sees on a day-to-day basis...leading to another 2 steps backwards in productivity.