The Information week Blog has published recently a top of the main problems Vista should get rid of with its forthcoming release.The rumor has it that Vista Service Pack 1 aims mainly at fixing all the little bugs that a first service pack for a new Microsoft operating system has to tackle rather than at performance.
According to the aforementioned source this would be not such an inspired move as performance is a bit questionable and some tasks use more processing power than they should.
Vista's flashy Aero interface has both admirers and critics. The latter tend to blame this catchy look for sucking up a lot of graphics processing horsepower which is not exactly the case. Vista's boot process may in fact owe its lengthiness to starting so many services.
A view that is gaining much popularity is that Microsoft should have built-in performance settings. For example, you could opt for "full Vista", meaning a complete but slow configuration, a "reduced" configuration that would have diagnostics turned off and a fast configuration that would give speed and would include just the basics.
One unfortunate characteristic that Vista still keeps is its very poor user-account controls which do a less than modest job at protecting computer users.
Moving on with our little debate here, apparently, there is an app that definitely screams for improvement -- Internet Explorer 7. Its problem is that it constantly crashes under Vista and it tends to be kind of annoying having to reopen all your previous tabs after each crash because IE7 does not assist you with a “restore session”.
Although Microsoft has done a fine job with IE7’s interface and is no longer behind Firefox with this, there remains still the problem of performance that needs to be addressed.
