When I bought my laptop (my first and only laptop by the way…), it came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium. And being a Windows user all my life, I had my qualms and doubts. You probably know of BSOD (blue screen of death) and the many viruses directed at attacking the Windows OS. Well, Windows Vista claims to eliminate the BSOD while minimizing the viruses that could attack it. So did it? From my personal experience, it was ‘a bit’ true. I say a bit since the occurences of BSOD screens happening was minimized so did the infection of viruses (I use Norton Anti-virus…).

How about the user interface? At first, it looked very pretty to me with its Aero-glass looks and 3D menu bars. However in the long run, the looks no longer mattered to me as the start-up boot up time was really really slow. It would take 2-3 minutes just for me to login to Windows, a really bad user experience for me.

To counter the bad with a good, Windows Vista does have useful features that prior versions of Windows did not have (as far as I know). One of this is the ‘Shrink Volume’ feature in Vista. Using this, you can easily create and delete partitions in Windows itself. I normally do this (partition) before when I want my PC to dual-boot Windows and some other operating system. To do this, I had to reformat my hard disk, partition my hard disk into different partitions then install the operating systems. But now, formatting the disk is no longer necessary (thus no need for backing-up of files and the long wait in reinstalling everything from scratch).

I also like the built-in chess game, Chess Titans. I like it because I love playing chess (hehe) but next to that, I love the 3d look of the board it presents. I know this is not something special, there are probably thousands of 3d chess games out there but it is cool for Microsoft to include this as a built-in game.

There are many other things to love and hate about the Windows Vista but I’ll stop here. It is not probably not worth it right now since Windows 7 has already been released by Microsoft as a Beta version.

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