I’ve recently purchased a new notebook with Windows Vista pre-installed. Reports I have read show Vista more reliable if pre-installed rather than upgraded.
One thing I have noticed is that M$ has returned to the old ways of booting, S-L-O-W! I could BREW a pot of coffee waiting for this monster to boot, let alone, pour a cup. Boot time is outrageously long, even after removing several startup items from msconfig.
A very disconcerting find is that Symantec will not be writing a Vista-compatible version of System Works, a very old yet useful tool since DOS. I have used the trial version of 360 and I fear the folks at Symantec have gone a bit overboard on the user-friendliness of their products. Not only has the fragmentation map been removed, but the user has little control over what is scanned, fixed, protected, etc.
Even the native Windows defrag tool has taken steps backwards. Once the process is complete, Windows still reports that “you should defragment your drive.”
I use Vista Business. The networking features are pretty well protected even from a seasoned professional. If I want to share out a file on my system so my son can have access to it from his machine, the process is not as simple as it was in XP and previous versions.
With those issues, Vista is a “pretty” OS. Fun, in fact. But I will never recommend it in an enterprise arena.
Any thoughts?