Vista and IE7 issues

Vista IE7 issue remains unsolved for many users by ZDNet’s Marc Orchant — When I read stuff like this, it confirms my belief that there’s something very broken in the world of Vista. Here’s a very knowledgeable user and talented developer who’s confounded and befuddled by a well-documented and still unaddressed issue affecting Vista users running Internet Explorer 7. The problem manifests itself as an annoying and increasingly frequent hang or time-out during which the PC is essentially rendered useless. This is not a productivity enhancing experience folks. This is a huge time sink.

That’s fun! I thought it’s me struggling but it seems it’s epidemic! Yes every time I start IE7 in my Vista Business Edition PC at my workplace, first of all it take up to 5 seconds to be able to type something on address bar and this is after you see IE’s window!!! This pretty delay (or better said transitional hang) happens every time I’m trying to surf to a new url.

After all, I doubt it that a PIV3.4 Ghz with 2GB of DDRII RAM and a 512MB Geforce card is prehistoric for Vista!

More fun is that even Firefox is not that good in Vista. I rarely use IE since I installed Firefox 1.0 2 years ago, but non-stop crashes forces me to balance my work between IE7 and Firefox. Although it’s still way better than IE but I have a totally differnet experience with Firefox in XP. It simply rocks as good as in Linux.

By the way, forget about Safari! I love Mac OS and Safari is fine in there (I like Camino more) but safari on Vista? Not a good first impression!