The Vista Fizzle Dept.: The continuing negative buzz around Vista is becoming deafening as more and more users moan and groan about how unusable the new OS is. Personally, I still have not switched, because I know it will be agonizing in some way or another. The most common complaint I hear from people whose opinions I respect is that Vista is so annoyingly slow that it forces you to revert back to XP at your earliest chance. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2225716,00.asp
Do you even use it? MacBook Woes says otherwise to your statement and also backs up some of the horror stories i've been hearing in the office by people who bought it.
I think the real problem with Vista right now is that there is no real NEED to upgrade to it from XP. Only thing I can think of is DX10, but as someone has already pointed out, there is very little difference in graphics between DX9 and 10, at this point in time anyway, and there are very few games which take advantage of DX10 at this point. So why fix something that is not broken? XP is a very good OS and I will keep it until I find a real need to upgrade to Vista. Also another note, I've used Vista before and find the interface to be inferior to that of XP. In Vista it was a lot harder to find specific things, when you've been using Windows since 95 came out, you are used to all the Windowsness like the Control Panel, Device Manger etc being in the same place, in Vista I found it difficult to navigate to certain areas, I don't see how it is more user friendly..maybe for someone who's never used another Windows OS ever?
Well, if anyone want's to giveaway their copy of Vista, I'll take it 64-bit ultimate edition would be great. Thanks in advance
I don't believe that anybody is actually buying Vista. Most people get their choose of Vista or XP when they buy a new computer.
... and transferring that crap OEM copy of vista to another computer - EVEN if you wiped it and put XP on there - violates the EULA.
only the same zombies that buy Saab and Ikea. Everything you can say negative about Microsoft you can triple when dealing with Apple. At least with M$ you have a CHOICE of hardware, and won't end up spending $150 to go from 1 meg to 2 megs of DDR2 667. (the going rate for 4 gigs of DDR2 800 in desktop form factor if memory serves) or $150 to go from 250 gigs to 500 gigs (at which point, get the 250 and install a $100 500 gig alongside... wait, install WHERE? OH, that's right...) Remember, Apple is the company that will sell you an 18 bit display and call it truecolor on the Mac Pro, refuses to acknowledge that the magsafe is a fire hazard, instead of fixing cooling issues instead sends out a warning not to use the MacBooks as Laptops, uses cheap poly-lexan that dries out like peanut brittle in northern climates instead of the thermoset everyone else uses just because "It looks shiny", and in the past has been known to OEM parts below the advertising specs, intentionally underclock CPU's so they could skip bothering to add cooling to a system (open up a G3 clamshell sometime and marvel at the stupidity), disables data lines on PCMCIA JUST so you can't use it with anything but their cards, intentionally disconnected data lines on the drive connectors so you couldn't use third party optical drives (you can fix that with a solder pen BTW by shorting two pins so 'master' always fires), etc. etc. and that's before we get into their bullshit crapware or sleazeball stunts like blocking their OS from installing on hardware that actually matches the specs - see most of your G3's... Blessed be xPostFacto.
Yeah, but they still get a Vista installation disk. Would be a waste to see that disk gather dust, so I'll have it.
Ok unlike most I actually like Vista. It's become a very smooth OS now, after some updates. I've had it for around 3 months now... LOVE IT! Mark
Vista may use a bit more resources than XP did but I've been running it since March on my cheap laptop (1GB of RAM, 1.7GHz dual core) and it's been working seamlessly. Yesterday it crashed after about 13 days of uptime; I've never tested how long I could get out of XP but a restart every two weeks isn't that big of a problem. There are some compatibility issues, especially with games, but for the most part it's a good operating system and doesn't get the respect that it deserves in my opinion.
The best part about the whole thing is no one has forced the end user to upgrade which is good. I'm on Vista Home Premium right now and do not miss xp at all. Infact I have started to frown at the xp os .
Unfortunately the day is coming. I wonder how many people would rather choose anything but Microsoft.
Well, Microsoft IS giving it away, on cheap, disposable, nasty little eMachines, that I have to go out and fix.