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Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 Review, Part 3
Monday, September 11th, 2006
My original plan was to present some performance data in the third part of this review. There’s just
one problem: At least half of the games I intended to put through the benchmark paces wouldn’t work correctly–or in one notable case, install at all–on Windows Vista RC1. After fretting over this for a bit, and then blowing away all of the games I did manage to install during a VMWare Workstation-induced system restore (which was causing blue screens), I decided to move on. For now.
I’ll still try and present that data at a later point. In the meantime, I’ve got bigger fish to fry. More specifically, there are two issues I’d like to discuss in this part of the review. First, let’s take a week-old look back at RC1 and see how it’s held up under pressure and the passage of time. Second, I did something scary and thought you might be interested in hearing about it: I upgraded a perfectly serviceable (if dirty) Windows XP installation–complete with months and months of installed applications and data–to see what would happen. The results surprised me. And, interestingly, they have some bearing on that first issue I just mentioned as well. And you thought they were completely unrelated. Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 Review, Part 3: Upgrading from Windows XP
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