02/27/2007, 6:35pm, EST
Tuesday, February 27th
Vista may hinder creative productivity
UIF is a concept developed by Pfeiffer that describes and quantifies the perceived differences in efficiency as well as user experience between an operating system, applications, and digital devices. UIF also defines the observable fluidity and productivity when performing the same operation on different computer systems, programs or devices.
Pfeiffer Consulting is advising creative users to think carefully before migrating or upgrading to Vista, as benchmarks showed that creative professionals may actually become less productive than they would be using Windows XP.
Mac OS X still remains a clear winner with regard to creative efficiency, according to the study.
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I went to my local BestBuy the week after Vista came out to see how good it was. I was amazed at the awesome shininess, but under that, everything was sooo XP. On all the computers I played with , all functions were slowed to be really fluid and "beautiful" but it really just wasted time.
VISTA OPERATES IN SLOW MOTION, and it's distracting...
Has anything been improved.... Yes
But overall its crapolla if thats all they can do in 5 years
Are they sure they tested Vista and not XP?
But, hope4 theworld, people said the same things about OS X when it came out...especially compared to OS 9.
OS 9 was a cooperative multi-tasking system ... of course it "seemed" much faster as all user interaction preceded everything else on the system, unless of the course the system was hung on another process.
Of course I don't believe this report says the system is slower as in "rendering," but as in people have to wait for the "nifty" effects to finish before being able to continue. One thing they mentioned was having to wait for a folder window to "materialize" before being able to get at the contents. This is flash over function and wears thin fairly quickly, if it's something you need to do often.