I Like Vista and Office 2007 - So shoot me.
September 12th, 2007 : David CarnesI use a tablet PC - an IBM X41 for most of my computing. I was running Windows XP for Tablets, but recently upgraded to Vista mainly because I had heard that the handwriting recognition was really good.
It is eerily accurate - with no training, out of the box it converts my scrawls to perfect type face 99.99% of the time. I haven’t had to correct it at all this week. For kicks I wrote this sentence with a pen. Pretty good, huh? I bet you can’t even tell the difference….
On a side note but not entirely unrelated - I like the upgrade to Office 2007 mainly for the improvements made to Outlook - 1. It syncs with my iPhone (Office XP did not work). 2. The task / calendar / email integration is really tight - if you’re a fan of David Allen - you’ll definitely dig the new sidebar views and calendar / task integration in the weekly calendar view.
So as the hardcore Mac and Open Source users within ArcStone hang their heads in shame as I publicly talk about liking Vista. Do not give up all hope - as I am a fickle computer user and a big fan of using the best tool for the job.
November 8th, 2007 at 6:30 am
I agree entirely. I think most of the problem with vista is that people didn’t plan their hardware to work with vista or they are trying to upgrade machines that probably shouldn’t be running vista.
I think that the user interface in vista is much better, everything tends to run smoother, not as many lockups as in xp and I think that for newer dual/quad core processors, Vista tends to distribute the workload more evenly across the processors.
I like the artsy parts of vista too, the Aero interface is fun and media center is cool too. My only complaint about vista is the lack of support by hardware and software makers, I’m glad that all my hardware is supported.