Gnomie Kyle Covino writes:
Well, since you only receive mail on how people hate Vista, I thought I should send you one on why I love it. Originally I hadn’t planned on picking up a copy right off the bat, but I needed to use it for work anyway so I did grab one. I’m glad that I did! I love the overall look of Vista. I love the transparencies and all the other silly little effects that Microsoft added to make it look cool. It sucks up some power, but I’m a power user so I’ve got plenty of hardware to back it up. I like that Windows gives links to places you might want to browse while you’re searching on your machine and that it gives you a nifty rating system to show you possible system bottlenecks. I’m pleased that they added something like the Performance & Reliability monitor to the OS. My favorite feature? If you’ve got a Wacom tablet you can actually write (in your own handwriting) on a Windows Journal! People complain that nobody sends personal handwritten letters anymore, opting instead to send emails (oops) but through Journal it’s possible to have it both ways.
Problems? I’ve had a few. The worst? Probably that my printer, a Deskjet 5550, (that’s right an OLD printer) doesn’t show how much ink is left after it prints anymore! Seriously, that is the WORST problem that I’ve had. My Maxtor OneTouch software won’t run on Vista, preventing automated backups. Big deal, I can still do it manually. I only need to save what I created anyway. Other than that everything else that I own can and will run on Vista right down to old games. The oldest one that I’ve tried is Battlefield: Vietnam and it ran fine. Actually, better than fine; it was flawless.
Now, this isn’t to say that Vista is perfect and doesn’t have its flaws. It’s not and it does. But honestly looking back how many people reacted the same way to XP? How many are going to react this way to the next Windows OS?
[tags]vista, windows, vista feedback[/tags]