I have been in the computer industry for over 10 years and I am used to technology changes and the release of new operating systems and applications, many with new features and interfaces, however, I will be the first to admit that given the choice I prefer Windows XP over Windows Vista which I have been using for about a year, although the visual appearance of Vista is great and on one of my computers which has a very high spec it works very well, my view is as a result of continued problems with compatibility and poor performance with mine and others Vista computers.

My readers and some of my business colleagues continually complain about certain inbuilt security features, which have been included to provide increased protection, but can be annoying, an example of this is the User Account Control (UAC) feature which prompts every time an administrative task is performed, this feature is therefore often disabled leaving the computer vulnerable to risk as with XP

As well as slow performance many Vista users have complained that it takes forever to boot, once running the operating system, which is not as responsive as XP. Programs take longer to open with lock-ups when they try to run several applications at once, surprisingly this has been happening on both upgraded and brand new machines that came preloaded with Vista, particularly with Laptops.

In fact several readers have removed Vista from their computers altogether, fed up with the continued slow performance and continued “glitches” and returned to XP, or ordered a new computer with XP instead of Vista

Performance issues aside, many people just like XP, even though its been around some time it has a stable platform and works well, like me some cannot wait for the final release of XP SP3. I am often reminded “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”!.

That’s enough of my ranting, I must get back to my courseware development – guess what - I am currently working on Windows Vista!!

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