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Windows Vista shines with improvements
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
In the span of five years, Microsoft Corp. promised its most advanced operating system ever and then yanked key features to meet 
deadlines that were missed anyway. Details of what would later be known as Windows Vista sounded suspiciously like Apple’s Mac OS X. Yet Vista, which finally appears on store shelves and new PCs next Tuesday, manages to largely overcome its long, tortured prelude. Though it duplicates some of the feel and functions of the Mac software, Vista includes its own improvements that take security, reliability and usability to new heights on the PC.
Vista is by far the most robust and visually appealing version of Windows yet. It’s similar enough to its predecessor, Windows XP, to make the switch easy, but different enough to make the price almost bearable.
That’s not to suggest Vista’s perfect or even as polished as Mac OS X. In more than a month of testing on multiple PCs, I’ve run into a number of rough patches. Then again, I was able to run my systems longer between restarts, experienced fewer crashes and generally found it more informative than its predecessor.
Overall, it’s a worthy upgrade, though one that most users will probably want to delay until the kinks are worked out. abc13.com: Review: Windows Vista shines with improvements
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