{"id":915,"date":"2007-01-20T00:08:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T07:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2007-01-24T22:18:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T05:18:39","slug":"technology-review-on-microsofts-forthcoming-vista-operating-system-windows-is-complicated-macs-are-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/915\/technology-review-on-microsofts-forthcoming-vista-operating-system-windows-is-complicated-macs-are-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Review on Microsoft’s forthcoming Vista operating system: “Windows is complicated. Macs are simple.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is about to obsolete its entire user base yet again, as it prepares to release its long anticipated replacement for Windows XP, the new Vista operating system. In a scathing assessment in Technology Review<\/i><\/a>, long-time Windows champion Erika Jonietz reluctantly ends up here:<\/p>\n

Ironically, playing around with Vista for more than a month has done what years of experience and exhortations from Mac-loving friends could not: it has converted me into a Mac fan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is an extended rendering of her findings:<\/p>\n

My efforts to get Media Center working highlighted two big problems with Vista. First, it’s a memory hog. The hundreds of new features jammed into it have made it a prime example of software bloat, perhaps the quintessence of programmer Niklaus Wirth’s law that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster (for more on the problems with software design that lead to bloat, see “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta”). Although my computer meets the minimum requirements of a “Vista Premium Ready PC,” with one gigabyte of RAM, I could run only a few ?simple programs, such as a Web browser and word processor, without running out of memory. I couldn’t even watch a movie: Windows Media Player could read the contents of the DVD, but there wasn’t enough memory to actually play it. In short, you need a hell of a computer just to run this OS.<\/p>\n

Second, users choosing to install the 64-bit version of Vista on computers they already own will have a hard time finding drivers, the software needed to control hardware sub?systems and peripherals such as video cards, modems, or printers. Microsoft’s Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor program, which I ran before installing Vista, assured me that my laptop was fully compatible with the 64-bit version. But once I installed it, my speakers would not work. It seems that none of the companies concerned had written a driver for my sound card; it took more than 10 hours of effort to find a workaround. Nor do drivers exist for my modem, printer, or several other things I rely on. For some of the newer components, Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is about to obsolete its entire user base yet again, as it prepares to release its long anticipated replacement for Windows XP, the new Vista operating system. In a scathing assessment in Technology Review, long-time Windows champion Erika Jonietz reluctantly ends up here: Ironically, playing around with Vista for more than a month has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1957,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1957\/forward-into-the-past-now-you-can-upgrade-vista-to-xp\/","url_meta":{"origin":915,"position":0},"title":"Forward into the past: Now you can upgrade Vista to XP","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's churlish of me to chortle, so I'll begin by saying that all Power PC (i.e, not Intel-based) Macintoshes running all versions of OSX through Tiger have the ability to launch OS9 in an emulator, running any OS9 compatible software side-by-side with OSX. 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