Windows Vista is now as reliable as XP
Would you believe that Windows Vista may now be as reliable as XP was or still is? I didn’t think so. My experience with Vista has been one of reliability when preinstalled by an OEM but this is not the majority consensus.
No, your old(er) programs and drivers won’t work on Vista. You may have some luck with Windows XP drivers but not if you’re using a Dell printer. Vista will also have problems on older systems chock full of older hardware and if that’s your case, save the complaining for someone who cares. Just buy a new PC already.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDnet thinks Vista is now as reliable as Windows XP. It just took longer to get there.
He ran some tests using Vista’s built-in Reliability Monitor and discovered the following over an 89 day period.
- Application failures: 19 days (21.3%)
- Hardware failures: 0 days (0%)
- Windows Failures: 1 days (1.1%)
- Misc failures: 0 days (0%)
- Total failure days: 19 days (21.3%)
- Application failures:
- CloneDVD mobile (CloneDVDmobile.exe): 11
- Foxit Reader (foxit reader.exe): 10
- Explorer (explorer.exe): 6
- Crysis (crysis64.exe): 5
- Internet Explorer 7 (iexplore.exe): 4- Windows failures:
- OS stopped working: 1
Some things you can do to increase Vista’s reliability is to install all updates and patches from Microsoft, update your hardware drivers and install a BIOS update for the motherboard (if available). It just took a little longer for Vista to get where XP is today. Remember that XP really didn’t come into its own until SP2 was released.
His closing remarks express that Vista is now as reliable and stable as it will ever be. Of course, there is always room for improvement. Getting a working compatibility mode in Vista would be a good start. Let’s see what happens to it when SP2 is released.
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June 23rd, 2008
“Just buy a new PC already.”
Well, there is another choice. I downloaded the Ubuntu operating system, and it runs great on my older desktop PC. I saved myself a bunch of money, and I do not have to worry about buying Vista or Windows 7.
June 23rd, 2008
May be, but I am still not going to use Vista, not in a million years.
XP and 2003 work great for me, and as the previous poster said, Ubuntu 8.04 also runs great. All the hardware were detected on my motherboard, and the drivers installed, and Ubuntu was ready to use after the installation was complete. The same cannot be said even with XP and 2003. I need to install all the hardware drivers myself to make the system work under Windows.
For simple uses such as web surfing, checking email and word processing (OpenOffice), I believe Ubuntu is ready to take on Windows now.
June 24th, 2008
Vista SP1 is not as reliable as XP. I installed it over the weekend to see if it’s really better and it’s better than it was but still no match for XP. XP has it all and works fast. Why even bother making more OS’s??!?! I can live with using XP for the rest of my life. It can do it all, XP could do direct X 10 if they didn’t intentionally program it not too.
June 24th, 2008
Vista is great in my PC and I have been running since its humble beginnings. In another laptop with P4 I tried Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.04 and not even mention 7.10 since if 7.04 already drags my 1 GB laptop to its knees then I’m sorry but Ubuntu is not a solution. Ubuntu is slow, it didn’t recognized my wireless, or network card or even my graphics card…not to mention the sound card. Yep, horrible… The best part was updating from 6.06 LTS to 7.04 complete death! My PC had to be formatted again. So I installed XP and then tried for 7.04 manually.
My Vista PC is just perfect, no problems no issues and YES my old games and drivers DO WORK. So what I do recommend to anyone with Vista is quite easy, remove those trial software and those not worthy applications that came with your HP, DELL, Toshiba and any other brand pc, since those are the really RAM eaters.
Someone asked why bothered with new OS? Easy, because OS evolve as humans and everything else! If you are not happy with Vista, or simply believe is awful, then go back a few years in the past and recall what the people say about XP at the time. Go even farther and then live in the Windows 95 or even better Windows 3.1 era, then your PC will boot as a warp drive!
People! Stop blaming Vista, instead learn it and you will amaze of great OS is.
June 28th, 2008
It seems like people are finally waking up from the brainwashing that apple has been trying to force feed on the masses with there ridiculous marketing campaignes. More and more people are finally starting to speak out and say that vista really is a quality OS. Nothing can compare to Vista, not even XP. That is words of truth.
June 30th, 2008
Vista is a quality OS? Ha, that is the most funny thing I have ever heard.
From the beginning it was not (skip videos and sounds when playing DVDs when XP works fine on the same computer, for example) and even if these problems have been fixed I still won’t pay the ridiculous amount of money for a Vista license. Its performance is also quite a bit below XP and 2003.
Macs are also good and I have 2 in addition to my PC running XP/2003/Ubuntu. They are stable, no virus and spyware threats (at least at this time) and can run Windows if you want them to.
For average users I believe a Mac is a quite suitable computer now.
July 9th, 2008
Was that really “Sauron”, or should it in fact have read “So Wrong”?
July 9th, 2008
Windows Vista is now as reliable as XP? That’s wonderful news! I also heard recently that North Korea is as nice a place to live as Siberia.