Critical to Windows Vista

The criticisms of Windows Vista include a number of topics pertaining to the commercial failure of Windows Vista, its performance compared to Windows XP, the number of versions that are confusing to the end user, their security, among others.

The latest version of Microsoft's operating system for PCs has been (and is) subject to a high number of negative comments from many. Performance Windows Vista is running on a typical applications slower than Windows XP, Linux and MacOSX on the same hardware configuration. Performance File System When Windows Vista went on the market operations of a common system files such as copy or delete it runs significantly slower than other operating systems were either not implemented. To copy large files when they were processes data migration, seemed impossible to achieve an adequate return without making use of indirect methods such as use of the console. After six months, Microsoft confirmed the existence of these problems by launching a special performance and update, which was later disseminated through Windows Update included in SP1.

Performance of the Games Due to the expense of resources of Windows Vista, many popular games like Half-Life 2, Counter Strike, Doom 3, Quake 4, and so on. showed a lower rate of frames per second compared to Windows XP. Some items already confirmed that this was the result of the immaturity of the graphics system of Windows Vista and also in the same Windows Vista. The implementation of DirectX 10 and DirectX version 9.0 of Windows Vista that has taken many incompatibilades.

Hardware Requirements The initial speculation about the requirements of Windows Vista were clarified in March 2006, when Microsoft revealed the official hardware requirements, which explained that many existing computers would be able to run Windows Vista smoothly. However, many of the features that were flag to the propaganda of Windows Vista can not run in an appropriate manner according to the requirements that Microsoft set. According to Judge Elizabeth, many of these features only "could be implemented in less than 5 percent of PCs in Britain."

Battery life in laptops With the new features of Windows Vista, batteries for laptops are consumed much faster, compared to other operating systems such as Linux, MacOS X or Windows XP. While in Service Pack 1 has already been launched correcting this problem.

Software Compatibility The problems of compatibility of Windows Vista are so many that they are even examples with the same Microsoft products. This low compatibility with most software market has led to even be rewritten many applications, especially for the 64-bit version.

Serious errors in Windows Vista may also appear, apart from the blue screen, a screen that is red. The screenshots will continue coming out blue, red and the screen will occur in the event of a serious error in the loading of Windows.