Exposing Vista Myths and Making Deployments Easy

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Exposing Vista Myths and Making Deployments Easy | Video Driver Blog — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:37:16 GMT

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boe — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:08:50 GMT

1 Myth #1 - Vista is as fast as XP

Correction - file copies to and from disks, network drives can be up to 8 times slower - common thought is that it is copy protection that slows it down.

2. Myth #2 - it is a third party app slowing down Vista

Correction - even with the latest drivers, all AV, Firewall and TSRs turned off on a vanilla Vista set up - file copies can be 8 times slower on identical equipment compared to XP.

3. Myth #3 - it is more secure

Correction - the first thing any user does is turn off UAC to get rid of the annoying popups - that was the advanced security Vista included - You typed the letter T are you sure you wanted to do that?

4. Myth #4 it - it is more intuitive. I set up systems for several thousands of end users - anyone who insisted they needed Vista switched to the old classic menu system used since 98. It might be more intuitive to 2 year olds and 80 year olds who have never used a PC - problem is not many of them tend to be in the workforce.

5. Myth #5- Vista sales are up

Correction - when you start at zero there is no place to go but up - but compared to XP sales, Vista is down and if you factor in how many people are "downgrading" on new PCs to XP from Vista - sales are going WAY DOWN.

re: Exposing Vista Myths and Making Deployments Easy

ruth.morton — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:40:45 GMT

Hi boe,

Thanks for reading the blog and for your comments.

The slower file copy is an issue that has been raised and is addressed in SP1, although I haven’t experienced the problem myself and I’ve been using Vista for almost a year now. I’ve also kept UAC turned on and even though I’m a power user and put Vista regularly through its paces, I don’t find the occasional confirmation pop-ups annoying. It’s actually somewhat reassuring. However, I suppose that can be personal preference as well as your comment about the intuitiveness. What you’re actually speaking about is not necessarily whether it is intuitive or not, but rather that it is different. It’s always a challenge for people who are used to one way of doing something, to change and do it another way. Vista is actually more intuitive for new users, which you also point out. About Vista sales, it may be true that our biggest competitor is ourselves – we did a great job with XP SP2 – however, many corporations have already deployed or are in the planning stages to deploy Vista and are experiencing the associated cost savings (see the case study link below).

Here are some links that may be helpful if you’re looking for more information on Vista adoption - who is deploying it, why they’re deploying it and how they’re getting it deployed:

Articles:

Windows Vista to Explode in 2008 - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-to-Explode-in-2008-71021.shtml

Vista Growth Surges as Corporate Adoption Kicks in - http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/97467/97467.html

IT Adoption of Vista to Begin in 2008 - http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3711556

Will 2008 be Vista's Golden Year? - http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3707661

Case Studies:

200 Case Studies of Companies Who Have Rolled out Windows Vista - http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/search.aspx?ProTaxID=3049

Deployment Information:

Five Vista Adoption Gotcha's and How to Get Beyond Them - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb905054.aspx

How to Start a Windows Vista Pilot Deployment - http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/a825cf2a-5248-4aa7-b8f5-a074339c729c1033.mspx?mfr=true