I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate (OEM version) and Microsoft Office 2007 in January. Yesterday, I finally installed them both on my HP computer I bought in December for the purpose of eventually installing Vista and the new Office. The installation was the easiest of any Windows I have ever installed and only took about thirty-five minutes, but the first boot took around 12 minutes. I backed up my data and used the Vista disk to format and install the new Windows.
This weekend on our show, we were accused of joining the "band wagon" of Microsoft bashers. Long time listeners of our show and visitors to our web site know the real story…just try to find a Linux or Mac tip on our site. They will be coming eventually, but up until now we have been solid Microsoft computer guys.
My first impressions are that the Vista I'm running on my power machine with a dual-core AMD processor and 2 GB of RAM and 128mb ATI video card is noticeably slower than the XP I had been using since December. Outlook 2007 is so slow that when I'm typing email, it can't keep up and I'm not that fast of a typist.
I plan on running some benchmarks comparing some times I had when XP was on this machine and against times on the much older machine I installed the beta version of Vista on and have been using since September.
