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Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

Should You Upgrade?

We know we titled this piece "Why Windows Vista Won't Suck" and that's a big statement to make. To be honest, we don't know that it's going to be great just yet. The OS is still very much in beta, and if previous Microsoft operating systems are any indication, a whole lot of things come together in the last few months. As such, we certainly can't recommend you set aside some upgrade money right now.

There are lots of great features in Vista that get us excited. We love the way the new search features work, the new UI and navigation, and the changes that remove a lot of the little annoyances we've lived with in Windows for ages. Not every new feature is a slam dunk, but taken as a whole, it's a giant improvement to the way we use our PCs.

Despite the fact that this article is long, there are loads of things we haven't even touched on. Parental controls that let you restrict application use based on time, day of the week, and rating, for instance. Vista is big. Very big.

It's the unknowns that keep us from giving an early wholehearted recommendation. Will there be compatibility problems? Will all the changes—high-level and low-level—to improve security and stability be successful? Will the sidebar evolve into useful use screen real estate? Will Media Player 11 add the necessary features to compete with the more robust software on the market (like iTunes) by adding podcasting support and the like? Performance isn't bad in the February CTP build, but how much will it improve? There are simply too many questions that won't be answered for months yet.

Still, it's hard to take a real look at Vista, both on the surface and under the hood, and consider it just another Windows rehash. This is a dramatic, whole-hog upgrade of the Windows platform. If you got anything out of this article, we hope it's the realization that Vista is not simply the Windows XP/2000 code base that has been slowly evolving over the years with some fancy graphics and icons slapped onto it. It should be clear that Vista is really the next generation of operating system from Microsoft, every bit as significant as the leap from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 or the jump from Mac OS 9 to OS X.

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