7 months of existing for Windows Vista

An operating system that got too many unfair critics


      It's been almost seven months since Microsoft launched the official Windows Vista. Seven months of existing of an operating system which we have been waiting for six years. Seven months are more then enough for a normal user to adapt to it, and to an IT professional to understand and observe the mechanics of an operating system. All this time, Vista received enormous amounts of critics from people more or less in position to do that. From all the critics addressed to Windows Vista that i have read during the time since it has been launched and on the period it was on tests, i do not exaggerate if i say that only about 10% of those were having a solid ground.

Bad critics

      Not a long time ago there has been published a study that shows that Vista is no better then XP when talking about security. Hundreds of websites and blogs have published it right away rushing into throwing bad critics at Vista. No one has ever considered that those who conducted the study skipped a serious number of elementary aspects of testing the security of an operating system and the test itself could have been better made by a kid. Lets take another example. A well known IT magazine publisher from the United States complained that the new Vista's hibernation system doesn't work as it should be and his laptop is not cooperating with it. Of course it is not cooperating with it as long as the check box for enabling the hibernation option is not checked for the network card, mouse or keyboard.Doh !!!

      The most hilarious critics about Vista that i read belong to the people that really have no idea what they are talking about. Most of the people i got in contact with since 7 months ago and that were criticising Vista didn't even used the operating system at all. They have read on the Internet reviews about Vista like the one i told you about, and rushed into judging Vista as being a bad operating system without having at least the curiosity of testing it first.



Games and drivers

      These are the weak points of Windows Vista at the moment: the fact that many old games don't work and that not all the components have drivers right now. But why can we blame Microsoft for that? I mean, the beta versions of Vista have being launched a year before the official release. In all this time the producers didn't have time to develop the drivers? It's obviously their fault. If Vista doesn't come with the drivers, then it will not be sold properly, and if Vista is not being bought then the hardware developers will not get the profits that they hope they will get. Besides that, the gaming problem existed six years ago for Windows XP too and will come again when a new operating system will be launched.

New vs. narrow minded

      The fundamental problem of Windows Vista is not the security issues, nor UAC ( User Access Control ), and nor the drivers. The problem is we are narrow minded about whats new, since we all accommodated with what we have used in the last years, and it is hard to adapt again. We got used to the applets organisation from the Control Panel that Windows XP offered us, with the My Computer term, with the Start button located on lower left part of the screen and in Vista it is "hard" to remark the search function, the Shadow Copy facility and the possibility to adjust volume separated for each Vista application. We are happy with what we know and what we are used to and we don't welcome something new, even if it's better. This is where Microsoft failed, delaying for 6 years the Windows Vista. Going back in time things were more favorable for XP since it wasn't so much time between its launching and the previous version of Windows. Maybe it would be better if Microsoft would come back to the strategy of launching a new operating system every year.
      Because what is new is easily digested in small doses...