Tests reveal Microsoft has fixed problems plaguing Windows Vista at launch
September 13th, 2008 - 3:59 pm ICT by ANI -Melbourne, September 13 (ANI): The problems plaguing Windows Vista at launch have actually been fixed, according to new tests conducted in the wake of Microsofts 300million-dollar marketing campaign to improve the operating system’’s image.
US computer magazine Maximum PC decided to conduct the tests as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld tried to “reconnect with real people” through the second advertisement of the campaign.
The journal ran extensive benchmarks comparing the original Vista to a version patched with the latest updates.
“From a performance, stability, and security standpoint, we”re satisfied with where Vista is today. You no longer need to sacrifice performance or stability if you want to run the latest version of Windows,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted the journal as telling about its findings.
Vista was plagued by frequent crashes, compatibility problems with both software and hardware, missing features and sluggish performance when Microsoft unveiled it in January last year.
The operating system was as much as 20 per cent slower than Windows XP at the time.
However, despite Microsoft fixing many of the issues through software patches, most people still consider Vista to be a faulty operating system.
Microsofts urge to improve Vistas image compelled it to launch the 300million-dollar ad campaign.
A spokesman for the company has said that the ads will only run in the US for now, but the software giant hopes that they will catch on virally outside the country via the web. (ANI)
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September 14th, 2008 at 1:27 am
sorry Microsoft, but vista is an unmitigated disaster. Even after the the latest SP, IE still crashes, too much memory is used. I have 4 gig on my pc and the memory and cpu is still pegged all the time. You can also take DRM and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:40 am
For me this is the real story.
WINDOWS VISTA RTM = SHIT
WINDOWS VISTA SP1 = Good but with a good computer too.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:33 am
what a load of crap.
IE aborts daily, often simply refreshing a page.
outlook (office) aborts trying to open a jpg file (or almost any other attachment).
this series of software is plain ole unstable.
and they made bazillions on it because we allowed it.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Bull!!! I just downgraded the last 3 systems that had vista to XP all our systems are now XP or XP x64! MS was fornicatin’ fido an smoking something funny when thay built Vista and Vista Sp1. If Windows 7 is on the same code base I will skip it too. Lose all the useless eye candy, it just slows everything down, find a less obtrusive way to security, and UAC is an annoying nightmare period. Oh and just a pet peeve of mine quit moving everything just to move it… we get used to the location of tools and utilities, and wham new windows — NOW play hide and seek for a month learning where everything is again, what a useless pain just so some idiot programmer can prove he actually did something; something useless, but did something, now can I have a pat on the head? Better he get a pet there, I’d slap him upside the ears!
September 26th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Vista with SP1 still takes twice as long time as XP does file transfer.