What are the advantages and disadvantages of the VISTA system?

People who use computers can be roughly divided into three categories:

1. Home users: can be divided into three categories: beginners, advanced and games;

2. Office users: can be divided into two categories: ordinary and advanced;

3. IT professionals

Generally, the first impression people have when talking about Vista is its beautiful interface and translucent window effect. , 3D Flip, etc. However, these are relatively superficial, and people have little understanding of the inner world. There are many reasons why they do not choose Vista. Generally speaking, they can be summarized as follows:

1. The hardware requirements are high, which takes up a lot of system resources and many machines do not run smoothly.

Compared with XP, Vista does have high hardware requirements, such as CPU, memory and graphics card. However, this should not be a problem for machines after 2007. Generally speaking, even commercial machines (except for a small number of machines only for general clerical workers) have pretty good CPUs, and the memory is so cheap that it is not a problem. What about the graphics card? People who really need Vista don't need to care about Aero. If you come here for Aero, it's not too much to invest in a comparable graphics card. My most commonly used laptop graphics card cannot enable Aero. I don't care about its interface. What I like is just the new features of Vista. Of course, future new machines will naturally meet Aero's operating requirements. As for the memory, 1GB should be enough. My home and company machines are both 1GB and can run smoothly. Of course, I don't play large-scale 3D games, otherwise 2GB of memory can run smoothly, and a good graphics card is naturally essential.

So, to summarize, for ordinary users, as long as your machine meets P4 2.1GB memory, and the graphics card is not limited, you can run Vista smoothly.

2. Compared with XP, the operation is quite different. I am not used to it. Many commonly used functions cannot be found.

I think people who have this problem are generally junior users, mainly home and office users, including some professionals. No matter what new system it is, for people with certain computer experience, it is not a problem to get started quickly. They have a general understanding of the working and setting modes of the operating system. Even if it is a leap from Windows to Linux, they can get started quickly with a short period of exploration and network assistance, let alone a slightly revolutionary Windows upgrade? And novice users It's different. Most of their understanding comes from the guidance of others and their own exploration. Once they change to a new environment, they often don't know how to start. It's normal to not get used to it for a while.

Speaking of habits, I dare not preach. I will just say one thing: if old habits are not broken, how can we accept new things and improve work efficiency? For example: In my working environment, earlier , many seniors are accustomed to using AutoCAD (engineering drawing software) R14, because that is the tool they have relied on for several years, and they are very familiar and accustomed to it. However, they were gradually transferred to AutoCAD 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 under my influence. Why? Because I can use many new functions that they cannot use, which brings higher efficiency to our work and liberates tired nerves to a great extent. Undoubtedly, in this process, they need to break their existing habits and adapt to the new characteristics brought by the new environment. Some people may say that as long as it can meet the work needs, there is no need to upgrade. Well, since you like this, continue to stick to the old habits. This is your freedom, and others have nothing to say.

3. The support for games is not as good as XP, and most games cannot run well on Vista.

Indeed, previous games were developed for Windows XP, so there is no guarantee that they will run well under Vista. What about the subsequent development of Vista games that support DirectX 10? I don’t play such games, so I have no right to say more.

4. It is difficult to deploy enterprise applications under Vista. Employees are already accustomed to XP. If there is a change, the migration cost will also be a problem.

Yes, user habits in a corporate environment are problematic, and it costs money to train employees to adapt to new systems. My views on the habit issue are as mentioned in 2 above.

In addition, an important reason that restricts enterprises from embracing Vista is the deployment of software and hardware in the entire office environment. Incompatibility issues are bound to exist. Old and new compatibility cannot be completely eliminated. For example, if every product must ensure backward compatibility, I think developers will go crazy. Even if they are not crazy, users will go crazy because the complex code is not General media can accommodate it, and being too complex will also make it too fragile.

So, why should enterprises upgrade their operating systems? Performance and security should be the primary considerations. How Microsoft convinces enterprises to upgrade is a big problem, because except for the temporary better security than XP, the performance improvement is not obvious. Maybe enterprises will accept Vista after SP1 and SP2.

5. The compatibility of software and hardware is poor, and older software and hardware cannot run normally under Vista.

For home users, there is no need to worry about this issue. This is already a problem with Vista during the testing period. Now Vista has a large number of built-in drivers, and drivers can be updated online. Thanks to the efforts of various software manufacturers, the compatibility of general software and drivers is no longer a problem.

6. Vista operations are cumbersome, and UAC and file operations are complicated and annoying.

There are too many debates about UAC. We are used to Windows granting super administrator rights to ordinary users, but no one is used to UAC. It is undeniable that the UAC setting is indeed very annoying. Every time, there will be endless questions and answers, and so on. However, technical experts advise us not to disable UAC, otherwise some important security features will be gone. Therefore, we can only expect Microsoft to make some improvements to UAC. By the way, my UAC is turned off, I don’t usually use the Administrator account, and I don’t install firewall or anti-virus software because the websites I frequently visit are relatively safe.

7. Vista’s operating efficiency is low and not as good as XP. Various tests have also proved this conclusion.

It is undeniable that on the same lower configuration hardware platform, Vista does not run as well as XP. It's natural, that's the way Windows is. However, it is inappropriate to say that Vista does not run as efficiently as XP. As a new operating system with more innovations, its functions and ease of use exceed XP in many aspects. Don’t read the reviews, seeing it is better than hearing it, try it out and see for yourself. There is a question: Who are these test tools developed for? Vista or XP? Running on different operating systems, is the comparability really credible?

8. Memory in Task Manager High occupancy ratio.

Let’s look at a joke first:

"2GB of physical memory is not enough for Vista! Evidence: Because after installing 3GB of physical memory, it is very easy to use up 2.1GB People with 2GB see that only 1.5GB is used. In fact, 600MB has been squeezed into the virtual memory! What I want to say is that 2GB for Vista is only equivalent to 512MB for XP, which is only enough to meet the needs of streaking. To be truly smooth and without frequent use of virtual memory to free up space, I'm afraid 3 or 4GB of physical memory is necessary. "

We know that Windows' memory usage is not a fixed value. The more memory you have, the more memory you have. The larger it is, the more it is used, such as the comparison of XP memory usage at 1GB and 256MB. Back then, 256MB was already very smooth to run XP, but what about now? 1GB is not too much. The memory management mechanism of Vista is different from that of XP. Vista treats most of the physical memory as a cache device called super prefetch block, or SuperFetch. Vista uses the SuperFetch memory caching device to dynamically pre-fetch background programs and disk data that the system frequently needs into the cache to speed up application operations at any time. Therefore, don't look at the amount of available memory in Vista with the old point of view, and your thinking must keep pace with the times.

Conclusion

In fact, a considerable number of people’s impressions of Vista come from some outdated and irresponsible remarks on the Internet. They lack understanding and experience of Vista and boycott it. To put it bluntly, , they just can’t use it, they don’t know how to use Vista efficiently, and their experience mainly stays on the surface, so they can’t understand it in a short period of time and give up. There is no need for me to explain the reasons for using Vista one by one. Users of XP and Vista must carefully read and experience the 100 reasons for using Windows Vista provided by Microsoft:

I will only give an example. The changes to the commonly used resource manager, that is, "My Computer" in XP, are absolutely revolutionary, especially the search, sidebar, and filter views, as well as the visual experience of moving, copying, and deleting files. These are absolutely revolutionary. It is not comparable to XP or third-party programs. The work efficiency of the resource manager is very important for our daily file operations, so it can bring a lot of convenience to our work.

Based on my one-year experience, as a home user, Vista is definitely worth recommending.