What’s wrong with Vista?
One of my client was having issues with Vista. He asked me one simple question. Can I run Office 2000 with Vista? I told him you can not. You can only run Office 2003 and Office 2007
with Vista. He was shocked. The guy was running a design studio and has recently purchased some new laptops with pre-installed Vista Home basic. He was desperately trying to load Office 2000 in to it but every time the installer was not going any further.
There are some known issues with Vista. XP was always much user friendly and flexible. That’s the precise reason many Institutional and corporate buyers have come back to XP and awaiting Microsoft’s new OS, which Microsoft has already announced. This has been named as Windows 7. Vista as all we know has failed to live up to the hype. There are many issues which have made Vista extremely slow. There are many versions of Vista in the market. The pre-installed Home Basic version just does not measure up to the expectations of its users. Home Premium, Business and Ultimate Vista versions are the best and somewhat do the equivalent basic tasks which good old XP was doing. Of all the versions that Microsoft has launched, XP and 98 have been the most stable and acceptable ones. But very few of the early users of XP would believe my words. XP was not that good in the beginning but it got stabilized subsequently. And today it remains the most reliable OS which has come out from windows’ stable.
Many of our friends in software fraternity who are hooked on to .Net using Visual Studio 2003(and 2002) are finding it difficult to get along or switch to Vista as it does not support Visual Studio 2003/2002. It is quite surprising as Vista does support Visual Basic 6. For all such developers switching over to Visual Studio 2005/2008 is the only option left as Microsoft does not have any plan to support Visual Studio 2003 in future.
May also like to read: TechARP.com rumors about Microsoft gifting Vista buyers free copies of Windows 7.
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