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All operating systems begin with the installation…
15 February 2007 in Installation | Comments enabled

…unless of course you’ve bought a new PC with it preinstalled!

For those of us not in that situation, we must buy a copy of the new operating system and either install it ourselves or find someone else who can (local techy geek, anyone?).

The installation is the “first impression”, the appetiser if you will. So you would expect it to be fairly slick.

In the case of Vista, well… I’m not sure that’s the case. In my experience, installing Vista on a clean PC - it was painless. It took roughly 2 hours from start to finish, and when it had finished it worked perfectly.

I have heard other reports though. A friend of mine recently did an upgrade on one of his PCs. It took 9 hours!!! Most of that was software and hardware compatibility checking - he kept having to uninstall bits of software and then retry the installation. Some serious bits of software were removed too - Nero (CD writing package), his Antivirus software, and a bunch of other stuff. Not what you want from a new operating system!

That said, he seemed happy with Vista once the installation had completed, and personally I’m very impressed. I hope to do an upgrade installation myself soon, and I’ll post my experience here when I do.

In the meantime, lets hope Vista continues to impress!

Dan

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