Living With Vista: First 30 Days
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The Most Problematic Products With Vista
Overall, half of the users we surveyed had at least one program that wouldn't work under the new OS, while slightly more than a third of users surveyed reported at least one problem getting their hardware to work with Vista.
| Hardware | Software |
|---|---|
| Graphics adapter (38%) | Antivirus (37%) |
| Sound card (28%) | Firewall (17%) |
| Webcam (17%) | Media player (17%) |
| Wi-Fi adapter (15%) | System utility (15%) |
| Media card reader (10%) | Browser (13%) |
Pretty, but Not All That Fast
Vista's Aero environment, or interface, is far and away the biggest improvement over XP, users say. But only about half of those surveyed say Vista performs noticeably faster.
| Feature | Percent that rated Vista much better than XP | Percent that rated Vista somewhat better than XP |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | 54 | 29 |
| Security | 32 | 39 |
| Navigation | 31 | 35 |
| Networking | 31 | 28 |
| Performance | 25 | 26 |
Full Survey Results
PC World heard from approximately 1000 Windows Vista early adopters about their experiences with the new operating system. We've put the full results of our survey into a PDF file, viewable with Adobe Reader.
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