Window Vista Software Vs. Windows XP

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    Aero

    • Windows' graphical interface received an upgrade with the release of Vista. This upgrade, called Aero, gave Windows what Microsoft's official site called a "cleaner, transparent look with impressive graphic quality." Aero is optional, and Vista can either display the Aero graphical interface or the traditional interface that mirrors the interface of Windows XP. Aero offered no real functional benefit over the traditional graphics of Windows XP; it just looked better. In fact, because Aero was so graphically intensive, it frequently slowed down computers that used it.

    Security Issues

    • A controversial addition to Windows with the release of Vista was the User Account Control settings, also called UAC. While the UAC was designed to give users increased control over the security settings of their computer, many found it to be excessive in nature and more of a nuisance than anything else. UAC was not popular. Serdar Yegulalp, writer for Information Week, went as far as to call the feature "universally reviled." Many Vista users went out of their way to disable it.

    System Requirements

    • The system requirements for Vista are much higher than the requirements for Windows XP. The minimum requirements for a PC running Vista are an 800 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM and 15 GB of hard drive space. A Windows XP PC, on the other hand, needs only a 244 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM and 1.5 GB of hard drive space. Reviewers found that even with its minimum requirements, Vista took a significant performance dip when compared to XP. Microsoft's own site even seemed to recognize this, burying the minimum requirements below "suggested requirements" that suggested a 1 GHz processor and other additional upgrades.

    Performance

    • When Vista was released, many dubbed it a "resource hog" because of its high system requirements. In a test done by Patrick Schmid at Tom's Hardware, Vista performed slower than XP nearly across the board when it came to graphically intensive programs such as computer games, and was at best average or only slightly faster when running applications such as Photoshop. These problems were never solved during Vista's lifespan.

    Vista Reception

    • In addition to the nagging problems of the UAC and issues related to slower performance, there were many other problems with Vista that led it to be widely disliked and poorly reviewed, especially when compared to XP. Windows Explorer had a greater tendency to crash in Windows Vista than it did in XP, and Vista never achieved the same level of hardware support that XP did, meaning that some programs and devices simply would not work with the operating system. The reception of Vista was so negative that many who bought it later decided to "downgrade" their computer back to XP. Both Aero and UAC live on in Windows 7, but they have been highly modified based on the negative user input from Vista.

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