One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?

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You've made the argument there is no reason to move

to any new OS really. As you said there is no real killer apps coming, except inside the corporate space, not retail and Vista does have a place there. There are nice handful of reasons to move to Vista on your network as you replace machines. Not many sites, i've worked with anyway, just ditch the current supported OS and move 100% to new OS. But Vista is working out fine for a large number of people i'm aware of and there is no reason NOT to move to it.

3-D alone is reason enough. If people are not able to see how 3-D will become part of all application from business to games, they have no imagination. There are some medical software vendors that had a vision and have releases of ER software packages that allow docs to bring in multiple images and be able to look at them in a rotating 3-D fashion to see things you wouldn't be able to easily fit together with a wall full of singular images.

But 3-D computing will be here to stay within a few years. The equipment is getting better and better. Average PCs now have a GB of RAM and getting 2, which is enough unless you are moving to Vista 64 bit, is cheap.

Toshiba makes one version of the x205 line you can get for 1499.00 now. Santa Rosa chipset, core 2 duo, lots of disc, nice graphics card etc etc.

The reviews on these x205 machines for games is coming back as same or better performane than XP and the newer glossy screens, although can be a glare issue, are so bright and vivid the experience is enhanced just from that.

The one x205-sli uses dual GPUs for gaming purposes.


I don't think the common machine running Vista high end multimedia stuff is far off.

Vista Ultimate or home premium media center is far above the XP MC machines. Have you compared?

Not an apologist for Vista, but like the latest version of Ubuntu or Leopard or any OS....what are any giving you? Apple forces you to move to Leopard if you buy a new machine and with PCs at least you have some choice.

I've read, elsewhere where the population of vein popping MS haters isn't so high and people are more objective and many many people absolutely love the new GUI on Vista once they get used to it and don't want to ever go back to boring old XP.

Sort of like when XP came out, why would we need XP over win 2000 pro. But most people, after the first year or so, found they liked XP better.


With the visual changes, the possibilities of applications grows by a factor I suppose is unknown still. But i'm sure we'll see. 100 million users is quite a nice little audience to target.....and that's just getting started.

Posted by: xuniL_z   Posted on: 12/06/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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