Good idea Joe!
Okay, I'll go first. I'm using Vista RC1 full time now. The computer seems quieter--doesn't take so many trips to the hard disk for VM paging. I find going back to XP an unpleasantry, so I think Microsoft is succeeding here.
Glass is nice. I think the performance is what I expected it to be on an Intel Advanced Graphics card (Dell Dimension 9100). Office 2007 is also pleasant to use, but they stil have some cleanup work to do on their UI.
Who else is using Vista
Brian
Using Vista?
nvandyk
NeilMB
I would never recommend installing over Windows XP until Vista RTMs. You should install on a different partition. It will set your machine up for dual booting where you can choose which OS to load.
Plus I suspect that Vista RTM will not upgrade Vista RCx. It will probably do what it does now: renames windows to windows.old and reinstalls next to it.
Brian
Chris0144
Ted.
banshi
Not at all on my machine (middle of the road dev machine).
Dragging windows with aero glass is smoother because you don't have the delay of waiting for windows to repaint themslves, but the actual velocity of the window movement is a bit slower: the window "catches up" with the mouse, but not really that bad though. The minimize/maximize animation is cool--it sometimes get stuck on a high system load however.
Startup and shutdown times--very noticably faster. When the desktop comes up after login, you don't have any more of the DLL chicken business hapennng anymore. The system is truly ready to get down to work.
Response of start menu just fine. I like the windows button taking you to the search box in the start menu. Microsoft Word is Start-word-enter. Google Earth is start-earth-enter.
The internet connection is noticably faster--they rewrote the network stack.
Internet Explorer redraws much more smoothly.
So on this 3.0 Ghz Dell with 1 GB Ram, I will say that Microsoft has succeeded with a solidly performing OS. There are times when the system stops to think, but today that hasn't happened (but I haven't been doing much VS work either.)
Jim Hudson
Did anyone tried to code something (in Visual Studio .NET) on Windows Vista
If anyone did, is it OK, it works fine I know that Vista is using the 3-rd version of the .NET Framework. So is Visual Studio .NET 2005 working fine in Windows Vista After I compile my programs can I run them on Windows XP without problems
Roy mm
Jim_B
I'm using build 5600 (right now) on my Toshiba Tecra M4, and I'm loving it. It's fast, solid, and dare I say it--I actually like Aero Glass and the visual effects. I'm still not sold on Flip3D (I think I like Apple's Expose better) but this is a really cool operating system experience.
I'm interested in the performance of Vista on old hardware. Is anybody running Vista on an old machine What about trying to use Vista as a Media Center I'm running XP Media Center at home, and I'd love to upgrade to the new interface, but I don't want to miss any episodes of Lost or The Office.... :)
Mihai Nadas
its actually also stated and recommended by Microsoft to NOT install beta/prebeta/RC products over your existing configuration - it's as simple as that
I remember about 2 years ago before Vista was announced publically, the internal builds were fun - it took a good 10 minutes (and these were dual xeon proc computers) just to hit the desktop - and the mouse, if you tried to move it, took a good 10 seconds for it to respond - it was that resource hungry! But now, 2 years on, bigger and better! :-) The thing with Vista is, if you need and want the full shbang, upgrade your computer (Graphics card for example to take on the Avalon stuff) and proc, and upgrade the memory too - the more features that customers wanted, we implemented and having such features requires resources - you can't win ;-)
I've not tried RC1 (yet) - been too busy but from the guys who have been running it, looks pretty cool - especially when running with Office 2007 - very sexy
kkos
I have a Celeron 1.2GHz if you want me to check it out on that :-) Automatically Vista will take out the whole graphics system because it doesnt meet the requirements.....
Celeron 1.2GHz, 512MB SDRam (yes, SD!)
CWeeks
I'm not sold on Flip3D either. Pretty useless--I think it's just a demo of graphics capability masquerading as a feature.
I happened to be in the area of an "authorized Apple dealer" and stopped to play with the graphics. It was a PowerPC based Mac. The graphics are very speedy, but I don't know how it holds up under system stress.
Anyway, what I wanted to say in terms of "demoing graphics capability masquerading as features." I played with their "Gadget" collection. When you select a new gadget, it plops on the middle of a screen and waves eminate from it, distorting the background. Think of the time in the Matrix when he takes the red pill and puts his hand through the mirror. Okay, I get it... Apple is demoing that they can do this sort of transformation on desktop contents.
Vista cannot yet. I think this sort of stuff is what Vector Glass is supposed to be about, but that either got canned or it is an idea of things to come. Not sure what the gossip is on that--anyone
My bottom line is that I don't care about eye candy (I think the Apple dock bar is an example of useless eye candy), but its the fine details that is enabled by a more advanced windows graphics manager that makes a difference. I feel myself meshing with Vista more than I do with Fisher-Price XP.
I'm also interested to know how Vista (sans Aero Glass) will perform on my wife's celeron. That poor laptop just takes forever to bring up any applications when you log in (and XP SP2 made it worse.)
Brian
Patrick251
Nicholas Buse
Shark_
Any information is welcome.
Thanks.