I got my first play with Vista last week as I set up a mates new computer. I was not impressed. Within less than a minute, a program had stopped responding and had to be manually ended. I’ve no idea what it was and what stopped working but it wasn’t a good start. Upon further exploration I was grated to discover that I had to ‘allow’ everything. Extra security feature, fair enough, but the whole reason I use an operating system and not a command prompt is so that I don’t have to worry about such things, good old XP managed to take care of most of these issues all by itself. My friend later told me that it was spitting out his Office 2003 disk and refusing to install it, as word is his most used application, he’s not a happy camper.
And apparently he’s not alone according to this report from the BBC Vista is causing all sorts of software problems, and I’ve also heard of problems with corrupting iPods and broadband issues when using Vista.
As regarding look and feel, its looks very Fisher Price-esque to me, big and cartoony but maybe that will grow on me…But that won’t be for a while as I think I’ll be sticking with XP for the foreseeable future…
