Vista is on the road to success, but don’t believe what they say, it’s a long, windy road; and the end is far from being near. Windows Vista RC1 (5600) is a very big improvement over the last public build (5384) and anything before the RC1 Branches (5536). But it’s far from ready, and here’s what really stands out (in order of importance) from making it as big of a success as it should be.<\/p>\n
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These together with the infamous PPC synchronization issues<\/a> should give Vista users a pause for thought. Vista is undeniably an amazing OS (yes, we’ll even have a post about some of the good<\/em> things that Vista has introduced soon enough!), but it just needs a Some things like the Wireless connectivity issues and the mobile device synchronization will undoubtedly be fixed; after all, they’re bugs, and that’s why this is a Release Candidate and not an RTM<\/abbr>. But things like the spotty network stack and the useless bloat, it’s unlikely to go away. Especially the bloat – we’ve seen that before only too many times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vista is on the road to success, but don’t believe what they say, it’s a long, windy road; and the end is far from being near. Windows Vista RC1 (5600) is a very big improvement over the last public build … Continue reading bit<\/del> lot of polishing up to become perfect. It just doesn’t make sense: you spend 6 years developing an OS, you bring almost all of it up to scratch, then you just stop. Hopefully there will be an RC2 and we’ll see some of these things fixed, but don’t get your hopes too high.<\/p>\n