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Vista And The Hardware Monster, Part 2
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
When last we parted (see Part 1) I had just fired up my neat, new computer made mostly from 
storage bin parts and slid home the DVD tray. As encouraging a sign as it might be when a new computer boots (especially one you’ve just built from scratch), the real test was continuing to watch as the Vista installation disc began to whine up to speed. After all, the processor and memory were new but everything else on this system was 6-months to a year old. (All right, the hard drive was 2 years old and pried from the insides of an external USB drive enclosure.) Vista, even this Beta 2 version, was the OS of the future.
Success! Drivers were loading. Billions and billions of drivers, apparently — or so the string of messages on the status bar said. Then, suddenly, there was the message I wanted to see: "Loading Windows." It was followed by "Loading Windows," which preceded a message that said "Loading Windows."
Okay, maybe it took a while to load. Maybe it took longer to load than any other version of Windows I’d ever loaded on any computer I’d ever built. After about 20 minutes I was ready to face reality. Vista had hung. InformationWeek | Windows Vista | Best Bits: Vista And The Hardware Monster, Part 2 | July 13, 2006
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