Microsoft Vista under fire - by Duncan McLeod
"In 2000, Microsoft foisted a dog of an operating system onto the world. Windows Millennium Edition (Me) was unstable to the point of being unusable. Now some commentators are drawing parallels between it and Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new baby.
Is Microsoft repeating history with Vista, its shiny new operating system released in January? If one believes the news reports, it seems consumers are far from happy with Microsoft’s latest offering. Some people are even drawing parallels between Windows Me and Vista. In my experience, Vista is not nearly as awful as Me. But Microsoft is having problems convincing consumers why they should not simply continue using XP.
But perhaps the biggest criticism of Vista has been its insatiable hunger for system resources. It will run on a PC with 1GB of RAM, but 2GB is strongly preferred. By contrast, XP ran happily on 512MB. Vista’s nifty Aero interface — the eye candy that makes it look so good — is also a resource hog, consuming memory and processor cycles."
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