The Goodness That Is Vista

Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 02/04/07 at 12:02:48 am

So the Microsoft Windows Vista / Office 2007 / Exchange Server 2007 Launch was on Thursday. I would have posted about it sooner but it seems the last part of the week got real busy all of a sudden… The launch was great, it went pretty much as I expected. There was a ton of people there, I mean the auditorium was completely packed during the keynote and most of the breakout sessions, and it took up most of the convention center. If you’re from the Minneapolis area, or are familiar with the Mpls. Convention Center you know that MCC is HUGE, it’s actually the largest indoor, contiguous, convention center in the Midwest.

The keynote was great, Microsoft VP Chris Capossela is a great speaker and I’m beyond honored to have chased him down and shook his hand afterwards. The workshops or ‘Breakout Sessions’ we’re good too, very informational and detailed about the new products. The event also had a good number of vendors including Dell, HP, Symantec, Robert Half Technology, and IBM just to name a few. So I made out with bunch of free garb which really is the best part about these events.

Speaking of free stuff, I also received a free copy of Windows Vista RTM and Microsoft Office Professional 2007 which is killer; I’m actually writing this post in Word 07 right now. I have actually spent the whole day playing with my new software goodness. I didn’t really plan on taking on a project like this today but I guess I had nothing better to do. I formatted my main desktop and installed Windows Vista Ultimate RTM, along with Office 2007. I ran into a few issues with an older video card I was running to power my 3rd LCD display but I think I got most of the kinks worked out and it seems to be overall stable.

I haven’t had a ton of time to play with Vista itself; I spent most of the day installing all of my essential apps and getting drivers going and such. However my first impressions of Vista is just…wow. The visuals and new features of the OS are amazing, a lot of little fixes and things I’ve noticed so far that show some of the detailed work that has gone into it. I have to admit however that Vista is hella demanding. I mean I run a fairly powerful rig and some of the visuals nearly bring the computer to its knees. Right now I’m only running a couple programs and it’s using about 50% of the memory, so I think a ram upgrade is in order. I think I’m going to go ahead and reinstall XP and dual boot it alongside Vista. There are still a good amount of bugs when it comes to drivers and such, and I would like to still use XP for gaming and such.

Anyway, this post was supposed to be more about the launch then anything, I will do a future post with a more detailed review of Vista. In the meantime I took a handful of pictures at the launch in Minneapolis and I threw them up on Flickr, so be sure to take a look at my Microsoft Windows Vista Launch photoset by Clicking Here.

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