{"id":549,"date":"2007-06-15T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/microsoft-vista-wow-factor\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:49:59","slug":"microsoft-vista-wow-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/microsoft-vista-wow-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Vista WOW factor…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of must have seen the advertisements on MS Vista where they talk about the wow factor. Well today I used it on a clients machine and it certainly made we go wow. Read on for the details…<\/p>\n

I had a 90 MB file that I needed to extract on their system (224 MB uncompressed), so I copied the file to their system,right clicked and chose extract. Then came the wow factor. Vista told me that it out need ~13 hours to extract the file. Waited for a few mins and it didn’t go down. It really was going to take it 13 hours + change to extract it. Certainly made me go wow.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take a screen shot of it at the time, but then as I was telling my cousin about it, I decided to blog it so needed to take a screen shot. When I took the following screen shot it was telling me that it would take 5 days to extract. I waited for a couple of mins in case it was just exaggerating like Windows XP and it would show the correct time in a few mins. But alas it kept showing me the same time. <\/p>\n

So here goes:
\n


\nMS Vista WOW
\nMS Vista WOW!!!
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

BTW, just as a comparison, my Windows XP system on a 1 GZ system with 512 MB of RAM takes ~2 mins to extract this file. Haven’t timed it on Linux yet. And this vista install is a running on a new machine thats pretty powerful. And i am not the only one who saw this. Another guy was complaining about it on one of the forums that I visited. His file was taking ~15 mins to extract on vista while on Linux it took about 11 secs to extract. <\/p>\n

Ah well. I think I can do without the wow in my life. Pretty happy with Debian and XP for my systems. Don’t think I will be upgrading to Vista anytime soon.<\/p>\n

– Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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