Real World Vista

واضح آرشیو وب فارسی:سایت ریسک: View Full Version : Real-World Vista Vahed03-08-2007, 10:50 PMWITH THE NEW VERSION OF WINDOWS FINALLY OUT, EARLY USERS SAY THEY’RE BEDEVILED BY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PROBLEMS- BUT SOME LOVE THE OS ANYWAY. last February, bryce Parkhurst brought home a new Toshiba Satellite notebook with Windows Vista Home Basic in stalled. The 33-year-old Eas ton, Pennsylvania, circuit designer bought the PC to enjoy music, but it soon hit sour notes. Everything seemed to run a little slower under the new operating system. His Alesis Photon X25 MIDI controller no longer worked. His favorite DJ software didn’t function properly either; when he tried to quit the program, Vista rebooted into SafeMode. Any system change in - stigated a seemingly endless series of “Accept or Cancel” messages from Vista’s User Account Control feature. After five days Parkhurst had had enough. He removed Vista and in stalled Windows XP. Since then, his new notebook has been trouble-free. In contrast, Bernard Mongeon is quite pleased with Vista Ultimate, despite problems getting it to work with the scanner and security software on his three-year-old desktop. The 54-year-old weather forecaster in Kingston, Nova Scotia, accepts such glitches as a normal part of moving to a new operating system. Mandar Jadhav, an 18 year-old Rutgers University student, is in be tween. He loves the slick 3D look of Vista Premium, but is pained by the software and hardware incompatibilities he encountered when he upgraded his nearly new Dell laptop. These three users em - body the disparate views of Vista during its first 30 days in the field. In PC World’ s on line survey of nearly 1000 early Vista adopters, slightly more than a third said they were very satisfied with the new OS. Another third reported being satisfi ed overall, but not exactly wowed; almost one in four were unimpressed. And regardless of their overall verdict, a majority some 61 percent—reported at least one hiccup in getting Vista to work with their existing hardware or software. .................................................. ................. APPEARANCE COUNTS the one thing just about everyone agrees on: Vista looks great. More than 80 percent of survey respondents said the new interface is an improvement. The translucent Aero environment available in the Premium and Ultimate versions may be one of the few features that live up to Microsoft’s “The ‘Wow’ starts now” marketing campaign. But not everyone has been able to en joy Vista’s beauty. One out of seven Vista users in our survey had trouble ob - taining video drivers capable of handling Aero and DirectX 10, which allows for faster, more realistic gaming. (At press time, no DX10-capable games had been announced.) Sergio Yanez, a 33-year-old banker in Jersey City, New Jersey, complains, “My nVidia GeForce 8800GTX [video card] dropped the Aero interface constantly when using the drivers.” He says this behavior usually showed up when he was using a DivX conversion program. [B]In fact, graphics card problems topped the list of hardware issues with Vista, followed by sound card troubles and Webcam glitches. nVidia issued certifi ed Vista drivers for boards based on its GeForce 6– and 7–series chips on January 30, but it did not distribute fi nal drivers for its high-end GeForce 8800 until about three weeks later. The driver de lays and glitches even prompted disgruntled nVidia fans to set up a protest Web site. (Rival ATI, though, also needed an extra three weeks to provide drivers for several of its Radeon cards.) security measures also make it harder for some legitimate programs— particularly security software— to work correctly. Half of the survey respondents had trouble getting applications to work with Vista; virus scanners, fi rewalls, and media players had the most diffi culty. For example, after he up graded to Vista, John Ohannessian, a 59-yearold computer consultant in Louisville, Colorado, couldn’t reinstall Zone- Alarm Security Suite because it wasn’t compatible with the new OS. He blames software firms for not having products ready when Vista shipped. ZoneAlarm plans to release a Vista-friendly version of its suite in the spring, says Laura Yecies, general manager of the company’s consumer and small-business division. Users who buy ZoneAlarm for XP today will receive free up - grades when the Vista version is available, the fi rm says. Yecies says late changes to key APIs (protocols that apps use to talk to the OS), the need to integrate with Windows Security Center, and the complexity of security software all contributed to delays. Other security software vendors, such as McAfee and Sy - mantec, also failed to make Microsoft’s Vista-certified software list, re leased in February. Representatives for both fi rms say that their software is compatible with the 32-bit version of Vista, and that 64-bit security software will be available later this year. In contrast, security vendor Trend Micro issued a Vista-certifi ed suite by the launch date. At press time, more than 30 days after Vista shipped, Apple had released a free up - grade to iTunes that should work with most 32-bit editions of the OS, but the company warns that some users could still encounter problems with data corruption. Other users may have to pay for the privilege of running their favorite apps. For example, QuickBooks 2006 and earlier versions won’t work because of changes in the way Vista handles administrative rights. Intuit spokesperson Rachel Euretig says it isn’t practical to update older products because of the big changes Microsoft has introduced. QuickBooks users with Vista PCs must upgrade to Quick- Books 2007, which is fully compatible with the new OS. Ed Bott, author of Windows Vista Inside Out (Microsoft Press, 2007), says vendors who didn’t always follow the rules in programming for XP are paying the price with Vista—and so are their consumers, who must now upgrade even if they don’t need or want the new product version. HOLD OFF? o f t e n , where users end up with Vista depends on where they started. Respondents who bought new systems with Vista were less likely to report problems than those who upgraded older PCs. Obscure or less popular peripherals and apps, says Bott, also tend to have more trouble than mainstream ones. Even people who say they like Vista don’t necessarily recommend you rush out to buy it. Most advise waiting for more drivers and the fi rst service pack to arrive before considering an upgrade, or waiting until you need a new PC. Vendors say Vista’s real benefi ts will start to appear after the familiar, awkward transition period is over (say, about the time SP1 comes out). “In a few months’ time, all of this will be a distant memory, and users will enjoy exciting games and features in Vista that redefi ne computing and entertainment on the PC,” says nVidia’s Diercks. Users, however, aren’t that impressed. “I consider Vista an evolution of Windows,” says Jim Middleton, a 55-yearold IT analyst in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who’s “somewhat satisfi ed” with Vista. “It takes advantage of modern hardware, supports new standards, etc. But there is nothing ‘must have’ in the OS. Given Microsoft had fi ve years to work on this thing, I think they could have done a much better job. The reason? Building Vista drivers is more complex than for XP, requiring a new model, says Dwight Diercks, nVidia’s vice president of software engineering. “It changes how basic display is handled, and it re moves older driver portions of the code that have been there since NT 4.0 days.” PAINED ACCESS one almost universally reviled Vista feature is its User Account Controls. In XP, installing software and making other system changes was much easier for users; under Vista’s default settings, you must verify every system change—a procedure that helps prevent rogue software from installing itself but puts a burden on users. Many, like Eirik Lundmark, have simp - ly turned off UAC (the only thing you can do, as it’s not a confi gurable option) and are taking their chances. “I’m an experienced user, but UAC wouldn’t allow me to create a new folder in Program Files,” says Lundmark, a 22-year-old student in Norway. So he fi nally shut it off . Ironically, Vista’s added. 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