Microsoft to Public: FUD As Usual
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On CRN, a report is made of Microsoft releasing updates to Vista, which it dubs Service Pack 0.5, then talks about the ‘no comment’ attitude at Microsoft, and the later disappearance of the news earlier reported at several sites.
The nVidia Web site seems to be the only one that has not removed the news, which gives little specific to the news of the updates.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt again. Microsoft doesn’t seem to get the idea that what once worked in the time before the Internet, the blog, and the instant message, will not be as effective now.
For many, each day that Vista is not patched, and continues to be slammed in the press, it is yet another reason to move to another operating system (Linux, any of the BSDs, etc.) or simply stay with Windows XP, as it has yet to be shown any real advantage to Vista.
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Tags: windows vista, service pack, fud, windows xp, linux, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, pc-bsd, nvidia
2 Comments
Raw Cool
August 2nd, 2007
at 6:37am
Windows Service Pack 1 is about to come out. I havent had any real problems with Vista yet except for a few games, which I was able to get going with some tweaks. Hopefully the patch will fix some issues with the gaming. Auto disabling of Aero would be nice. So if you go into a 3D program or game it auto-disables Aero, that would be cool.
the oracle
August 2nd, 2007
at 7:49am
Raw, good to hear of your results. The problem is that for every one who reports little trouble, like you, there are 7 - 10 others who are grinding out sweat and tears to get the OS to work correctly.
I tried it for a while, and it was not that bad except for the incredible slowness, and the fact it did not support lots of my peripherals.
I’d say that 60-75% of people’s complaints have to do with speed, actually the lack thereof. Vista is a pig, and MS always uses the improved speed of new hardware to cover up software that sucks the life out of the processor.
Everyone who comments says that 2GB is bare minimum for Vista. I agree. The operating system comes up using 50+% of the system RAM when it boots. This is higher than ANY other version released so far. What people like me rail about is we know how much can be done with Linux, on lesser hardware. Note that the look and performance is not less, just the hardware required.
Example : My system runs the Beryl interface fine on Ubuntu 7.04, with an FX5700Ultra 128MB. Vista runs. but is slow with the same card, Ubuntu is snappy.
There are those who say 4GB is needed, but then 4GB cannot be used, as almost a GB gets wasted, due to the way the architecture works. Moving to 64 bit unleashes many other problems, and still does not always make the entire amount of RAM available to the OS - not MS fault, but still a problem.