There is a new Microsoft paper which addresses some of the criticisms that have been put forward against Vista. I find it interesting that MS is quite frank in this text, because usually they only claim that everyone loves Vista.
Let me quote from this paper note: the link is not working at the moment, here PDF is a copy :. First, we need to avoid comparing apples to oranges—Windows Vista is doing a lot more than Windows XP, and it requires resources to conduct these tasks. That said, it is important to make sure a PC running Windows Vista has enough horsepower to function properly, especially for older PCs running a minimal amount of RAM, since the Windows Vista footprint is larger, bottlenecks will occur. Well, it is a marketing text, yes.
However, in my view, it is a valid argument. A large part of his whole article is about this topic. However, there is one thing I find remarkable. On the one hand, he claims that Vista requires twice the hardware resources as XP does, and on the other hand, he says that are no real enhancements. It follows that half of the things Vista is doing all day is just a waste of resources.
All in all, there are 10 rounds in his article, but only 4 discuss new Vista features. Books have been written about this topic. However, if you really want to prove that Vista wastes half of the available resources , you have no other choice than to discuss in detail the additional things Vista is doing, and then prove that most of them are useless. You will certainly regain some of your resources if you disable these.
But, even then, Vista will still be slower than XP. So if you have old hardware, which is not powerful enough, you had better let Vista alone. The point is, however, that if we compare both operating systems on a PC that is one or two years old and has at least 2GB RAM, then performance is not an issue at all.
It is a common false belief, and even IT pros such as Kennedy are not immune:. For every CPU cycle wasted bringing Vista's bloated image on par with XP's, you could be providing your users with an actual performance increase across their core applications. Subscribe to 4sysops newsletter!
There might be a few cases where performance is an issue on an office PC, but for a general argument against Vista you need a little more than that. That said, if Vista has just one feature that you find useful and if you have modern hardware, then you can forget everything that has been written about Vista's performance.
Of course, it is another question whether or not you should buy new PCs just because of Vista. But this is the topic of the other articles in this series. Want to write for 4sysops?
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You can use the vSphere client performance As you know, snapshots affect the performance of virtual machines VMs in your VMware environment. The performance is affected Poor storage performance can affect both physical and virtual environments. We have a vast topic today. We'll discuss some VMware VM performance tips and tweaks. Application users often complain To find out, we decided to test each operating system's performance on an average PC.
We installed XP, Vista and Windows 7 in that order all bit versions on the machine's GB hard drive and ran a number of real-world benchmarks to find out which OS was best.
The boot time test provided no surprises — Vista took the longest time to get started, XP came in second place and Windows 7 was the fastest. We bear good news. Even the beta of Windows 7 can beat Vista's sluggish start. At first it seemed like our file transfer benchmarks would deliver the same results. Vista produced poor copy speeds in our small file tests, XP again placed second and Windows 7 came out on top.
Both were beaten by the speedy Windows 7, though. This proved true for our application tests as well. Once again, however, both were trounced by the newcomer. Until they build something better than Windows XP, I see no reason to switch. As it is packaged today, Windows Vista is not that OS. Microsoft needs to release a new version of Vista that doesn't stratify the features why does CD and DVD burning happen only on the Home versions of the OS, for example?
It needs to unload some of the crap it padded Vista with. Enterprises aren't buying Vista because it offers very little advantage for them, and end users aren't clamoring for it. Of all companies, Microsoft should know that end-user desire for an OS has a huge effect on how rapidly it's adopted.
The company seems to have forgotten its roots. I have no doubt that Microsoft could turn Vista around if it wanted to. But it would have to own up to the idea that, with its Vista product and business strategy, it's been wrong-headed in a number of ways.
I'm not so sure that the current management, as Bill Gates continues to edge toward the door, has the technical vision to make the right choices. First it admitted that the WGA breakdown last August that caused thousands of Vista users to wind up being pegged as software pirates when they couldn't activate their copies of Vista was, in fact, an " outage.
Now, Microsoft is eliminating reduced functionality mode -- more commonly referred to as Vista's "Kill Switch. Even though the number of Vista users surpassed Microsoft expectations, they did not surpass the number of XP users.
Most people prefer XP, over Vista, claiming that is it much more user friendly and efficient that Vista. They also criticize Vista for have additional hardware requirements that XP. Microsoft included a number of additional upgrades and features in Vista refer table , some of which users claimed impeded usage instead of enhancing it, e. The UAC, meant to block software from silently gaining administrator privileges without the user's knowledge, has been criticized for generating prompts at every turn possible, even at basic commands such moving something in the Start Menu.
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