We just got a new box in the house, with Windows Vista Business installed, and I’ve gotten to play around with it a bit.
First impression: Too Much.
Too much eye candy. Sure, Aero is pretty — very pretty — but there’s so much going on that it’s distracting. Visual Overload. Fortunately, there’s a so-called “Classic” theme, which makes Vista looks like Windows 2000. Ahh, much better. (I do the same thing in Windows XP.)
There seems to be too much code as well, since Vista makes an Intel Core 2 Duo 7200 machine feel no faster than my three-year-old Athlon 64 3200+ running Windows XP. Hmmm.
On the other hand, my lovely wife said, “wow!” when she first saw Flip 3D, so maybe there’s something to that marketing campaign after all…
Tags: Microsoft, software, windows vista