01-09-2008, 08:29 AM
Yesterday evening I had to set up a PC which came with Windows Vista pre-installed on it. The entire process was a breeze. A canon printer and scanner as well as a Logitech webcam had to be installed after. The printer and the webcam driver installed were handled directly by Vista. When it tried to locate the scanner drivers on-line for whatever reason it couldn't get them. BUT, it offered me a direct link to canon's driver support site and after two clicks I was downloading the proper drivers for it. I was impressed. I realize that there are a lot of hardware devices out there still without official driver support but as an overall experience I find Vista much more capable of installing new devices on its own. I don't think I ever had Windows XP find drivers after using the option to search on-line for them - unless my memory is more screwed up than I think. 
Too bad the hardware on my personal system is aging or else I'd be running Vista on it still. My overall experience with Vista for the 9+ months that I ran it was nothing but terrific. As I already said my hardware in my PC is getting dating so the few games I play didn't exactly run like I wanted them to under Vista (might have been a Vista compatibility issue as well). I'm still very upset that nvidia dropped support for the nForce2 chipset on Vista.
The user's PC experience is greatly enhanced on Vista in many ways. One thing that comes to mind is the Start menu. I love what they did to it. Not only can you browse your Start menu with minimal mouse/hand movement but you can search for ANY file on your PC right from the Start menu (at super speeds). Half the time I wouldn't even bother use the Start menu. I'd simply type in the name of the program I wanted to open and hit enter.
I'll stop before I get long winded. If someone else wants to chime in on what they like/hate about Vista, be my guest. I'll try to add some more points later when they come to mind.
Too bad the hardware on my personal system is aging or else I'd be running Vista on it still. My overall experience with Vista for the 9+ months that I ran it was nothing but terrific. As I already said my hardware in my PC is getting dating so the few games I play didn't exactly run like I wanted them to under Vista (might have been a Vista compatibility issue as well). I'm still very upset that nvidia dropped support for the nForce2 chipset on Vista.
The user's PC experience is greatly enhanced on Vista in many ways. One thing that comes to mind is the Start menu. I love what they did to it. Not only can you browse your Start menu with minimal mouse/hand movement but you can search for ANY file on your PC right from the Start menu (at super speeds). Half the time I wouldn't even bother use the Start menu. I'd simply type in the name of the program I wanted to open and hit enter.
I'll stop before I get long winded. If someone else wants to chime in on what they like/hate about Vista, be my guest. I'll try to add some more points later when they come to mind.