Vista.Uninstall()
Thanks, but no thanks! After running the Windows Vista RTM on my primary laptop since it was released, I have finally given up and reinstalled Windows XP on the machine.
There has been a lot of comparisons on the web about Vista vs Leopard. Given my experiences with Vista, Leopard has nothing to worry about. I read about the 43 people involved in the design and implementation of the shutdown menu. I gotta say, that that is absolutely ridiculous. 43 people working on that menu for more than a year, and that piece of shit was the best they had??
Vista was a virtually unusable memory hog, and it would have been nice to have some of those 43 people looking at performance issues instead. My base OS without a single application running took ~750MB of RAM. That is completely unacceptable.
Microsoft has a long road ahead of it in the operating systems arena. Mac OSX gets it, and this is why Apple is gaining so much market share.
Just like with any other version of Windows so far, I think it’s going to be wise to keep it off production machines (including development machines) until a service pack or three have dealt with some of the worst problems.
I believe Vista uses more memory on purpose, see this article by Jeff Atwood:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
Basically whats its saying is unused RAM is just that - unused. Vista takes it and actually puts it to use, but when you start a new program up, it gives up some RAM for the new process.
Ben is right. Vista allocates all of that unused memory so that it can give it back to applications faster. It’s a whole new ball game.
Reading my post again, I can see that I was not completely clear. Vista’s memory usage was just one reason why I rolled back. Some others include:
* Speed — Things appeared noticeably slower to me. I’m running a 2.0 ghz core duo. Things should not appear slow.
* Usability — What the hell happened to the explorer?
* User Interface — It’s just ugly…
I did like the new start menu with the integrated search. Very Quicksilver-ish, without the noun-verb combination. However, that alone was not going to make me keep it installed.
Immature drivers are probably going to affect speed, too, so you may want to revisit your speed concern at some point…
I’m curious about your usability concern, though… what is it about the Explorer that you dislike?
Did you really installed Vista on your machine? Reading your post seems like you never used Vista or your skills to make good analysis and give judgements about new software are really limited…
I’ve been running vista on my primary laptop since RTM as well. I’ve also seen about 750 mb of base os ram. However, the operating system and applications seem to load and respond quicker than xp would have while consuming the same amount of ram. Overall, I’m happy with it and i’m migrating all my .net 1.1 libraries to 2.0 so i can move my main computer to vista (since vs 2003 is supported for some reason on vista).