Its been a few days now and many of you may have already installed vista onto your new Vista ready machines, or maybe you upgraded, or maybe you are just waiting. One thing is for sure, at some point you will be getting Windows Vista. Looking at your old XP machine will never be the same again. You can be sure that you will not have to see that blue theme from XP again, nor will you have to see the blue screens or at least that is what Microsoft will have you believe.
Security has been vastly improved, but you will still need to supplement this with almost all the applications that you had in XP for Vista. This means that there still will be users out there that are not going to have adequate security and that represents a large target that people will exploit in the months to come. It may be much safer to browse the web with IE7 on Vista, however if you do not have a virus scanner or dependable spyware scanner that can only get you so far. Can the atomic transactions, UAC, protected processes, etc all be enough or will you still end up having problems?
One thing to note is that there are plans for IE8 which may be a good sign, since sticking to ie6 has not been a safe idea all those years and many people may not have upgraded to ie7. By installing Vista users will now have ie7 which provides some good protection.
Wi-fi connectivity finally will work out of the box, something which XP never really understood, no more dealing with 100s of different pieces of software to connect to wi-fi networks.
The next question is will all you hardware and software now work with Vista? This is a major question, we already know you will need to upgrade your pc, and maybe this means that users will have more compatible hardware if they buy the latest, however not in all cases!
So the real question is who likes Vista at the moment?
Not all users may find every part of vista to be an improvement but in time when all applications and hardware become compatible and when all bugs and exploits get sorted, we will all prefer Vista to XP. Only problem is this will not happen. The only solution (well not exactly only) would be to all get a brand new Vista PC and keep the old XP one as well!
Then maybe everyone will like Vista.
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