LOL Using my real name... I think this going to be a problem with vista and how it runs apps like flash player. M$ will of course support flash but they are starting to push silverlight as a general purpose tool for replacing 'flash like applications', there is bound to be some bias towards making sure that their product gets the best support and functionality.
Personally I think the security model in Vista is good but as an OS it needs quite a bit of work still, of they'd given themselves another year it might have been really good and have kept closer to the original promise it held. The original betas were in some ways much better than the release. I wouldn't suggest putting much effort into sorting this flash problem out until SP1 or 2 is formally released as I think it will change an awful lot of the OS again then [:(]plus I'm sure that Adobe will have had feedback on this and will be sorting it from their end.
I took vista off the other day and rolled back to XP. I now have a laptop that is at least 30% faster all round and uses over 50% less system resource to give me that extra performance, my hdd's are also running about 25% cooler as they aren't being constantly hammered by the OS. My start up (time to the lappy being useable) is back to sub 45 seconds, back from hibernation in well under 30. A real bonus is I have 2gig of ram in the lappy and I now have at least 1.5 gig for apps to load into rather than the gig that vista left after loading just the OS. The battery life should also ramp up by around 25% or so.
Vista is nice to look but you do pay a very heavy price for it. Overall it has to be rated as a bit (maybe a lot?) of a failure. If it ends up as the only OS M$ offer then I'll stick with XP and linux.
LOL Using my real name... I think this going to be a problem with vista and how it runs apps like flash player. M$ will of course support flash but they are starting to push silverlight as a general purpose tool for replacing 'flash like applications', there is bound to be some bias towards making sure that their product gets the best support and functionality.
Personally I think the security model in Vista is good but as an OS it needs quite a bit of work still, of they'd given themselves another year it might have been really good and have kept closer to the original promise it held. The original betas were in some ways much better than the release. I wouldn't suggest putting much effort into sorting this flash problem out until SP1 or 2 is formally released as I think it will change an awful lot of the OS again then [:(]plus I'm sure that Adobe will have had feedback on this and will be sorting it from their end.
I took vista off the other day and rolled back to XP. I now have a laptop that is at least 30% faster all round and uses over 50% less system resource to give me that extra performance, my hdd's are also running about 25% cooler as they aren't being constantly hammered by the OS. My start up (time to the lappy being useable) is back to sub 45 seconds, back from hibernation in well under 30. A real bonus is I have 2gig of ram in the lappy and I now have at least 1.5 gig for apps to load into rather than the gig that vista left after loading just the OS. The battery life should also ramp up by around 25% or so.
Vista is nice to look but you do pay a very heavy price for it. Overall it has to be rated as a bit (maybe a lot?) of a failure. If it ends up as the only OS M$ offer then I'll stick with XP and linux.
