To Vista or not to Vista: Software Compatibility
I got my first opportunity to play in Vista the other day at CompUSA of all places, three weeks after its initial release, but only for a few minutes.
My opinion of it is pretty much echoes what I heard from a neighboring on-looking couple. “Well it looks fancy!”
There’s a humorous video provided by David Pogue; I think it was posted earlier this month on the blog and it’s worth a look.
While in San Francisco the afternoon of its release, I was handed a glossy color flyer enticing me to CompUSA right there on Market street. The gathering was to be replete with NFL stars to sign stuff, just in case waiting 5 years for it wasn’t enough to get me to go to at least look at the launch. The flyer didn’t get a second glance from me and apparently I’m not the only one who didn’t give it a second glance, they were expecting at least several hundred excited Vista oglers when only about 30 showed up. That’s just sad.
I want to like it, but I think I’ll have to wait for SP2 in order to advocate its viability. I’ve read nothing to make me believe it is a must upgrade, even considering security. One of the new Apple Ads also spoofs Vista security. It’s not too far from the truth.
It’ll be some time before I install it on any machine I use daily or even weekly. But I’m sure we’ll get a better taste of things once Anti-spyware programs are ported to it, which won’t take long I’m sure.
In the mean time, here’s a useful updated wiki page listing compatible windows apps. The directory has three categories of software: “Works,” “Has Problems That Can Be Solved,” and “Major Incompatibility Issues.” Keep in mind it is a user participatory page, so use it as a starting point for your research rather than a final say so.
