Windows Vista RC1 Impressions
I just installed Windows Vista RC1 on my brand-new work laptop, and so far I find it…OK. Here are some of my observations about it:
- It’s kind of strange that the installer does not offer an option to format the drive. The upside though is that you don’t have to format the drive in order to install Vista (which is not the case for Beta 2, according to a co-worker.
- Hamachi does not work out of the box. You need to “run it as administrator” explicitly…even if the login name you use is already part of the admin group. WTF?
- Network becomes unresponsive after a sleep (although this may be attributed to the wireless card)
- The Aero interface is cool at first, but the eye candy wears of after a couple of hours. It “disables” when you play something in VLC video player. I read somewhere that this is the case for most (if not all) Java-based apps. Good news is that it doesn’t slow the whole GUI down.
- It hasn’t crashed or showed the BSOD within the two days I’ve been using it.
- I think the new file explorer is convoluted. Microsoft copied OS X on pretty much everything…why not copy the simplicity of the Finder as well?
- I turned off the Sidebar after the first hour. It’s annoying.
Update: I uninstalled Vista and reinstalled XP SP2. VMWare is too flaky on Vista RC1 so I was forced to switch back to XP.
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October 3rd, 2006 22:43
- RC1 and the other betas that i’ve installed all allows for formatting the HD (it is under advanced options in the workflow, not that intuitive). Hamachi and many other apps aren’t working currently on Vista, it will be up to the app provider/vendor to ensure that the app will work. There are still several issues, but again, you are working on a beta release, let’s hope all the core issues get ironed out at general release
October 4th, 2006 20:31
“…let’s hope all the core issues get ironed out at general release.”
the question now is: When is the general release?