Drivers slow down Vista
While the official consumer release of Windows Vista is a little less than two months away, based on the enterprise release on November 30, the blogosphere is buzzing with comparisons between Vista and Windows XP SP2. Much of it is unflattering to the new operating system based on the lack of availability of drivers. Aside from the fact, that current versions of Vista, ranging from RC2 to the disk handed out on November 30, mysteriously labelled Vista RTM, require heaps of hardware grunt to run, it appears that you would be a fool to install it just now. In my case, it doesn't recognize my DVD drives or my printer. Unless I upgrade my video card and audio card, I can forget about Aero, Flip 3D and sound.
Apparently, my printer and DVD problems, not to mention the sluggish performance, stem from the fact that hardware manufacturers just haven't got around to releasing good new drivers for Vista yet. Well, they've had five years and counting, so exactly how long do they want to leave it?
