Vista makes people less efficient than XP did

A CONSULTANCY OUTFIT has found that Vista makes people less efficient, despite having lots of nice interfaces.

Pfeiffer Consulting conducted the research based on an independently financed series of benchmarks designed to work out how Vista influences user efficiency.

The benchmarks are its own idea not universally accepted, and are based on such things as "perceived differences in efficiency" and "user experience between operating system, applications, and digital devices". If you take this factor and divide by your shoe size you get a benchmark.

"Mouse precision" use apparently dropped in Vista well below the Mac OSX and slightly worse than XP. Pfeiffer's report called "User Interface Friction" includes things like teh finding that the slight lag that Windows imposes when displaying menus and submenus had dropped down the loo. Vista/Aero Desktop Operations, such as opening folders, deleting elements, had Vista/Aero 16 percent worse than Windows XP.

Pfeiffer Consulting is telling punters to think very carefully before migrating or upgrading to Windows Vista, particularly if trying to give them to anyone who is remotely creative. µ

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