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[richardmitnick]

I think that all this anti-Vista stuff is just so much drivel.
I am an ordinary user, I have two newish Vista machines and I have had not one whit of trouble with the OS, with the new Office, or any of my periferals.

[yearight3]

Another MS stockholder speaks. C'mon, will ya... VISTA is a DOWNGRADE from XP. Just like ME was a DOWNGRADE from 98. There is NO, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NUNCA, ZIPPO benefit to Vista, other than to Microsoft. So please, STOP the propaganda! Why is XP "aging"? It's not aging, it WORKS. Period. Vista is slower, clunkier, not more secure, more annoying, and convoluted in its organization. WHAT POSSIBLE PURPOSE IS THERE TO DOWNGRADE????? Pretty interface? please. Go buy a mac

[MleB]

If resistance is strong, Microsoft has no one to blame but themselves.
Even before SP1 has been produced, they've announced the next OS, Windows 7. Further, they have done little to encourage 3rd Party providers to create software for Vista and even less to prove it worthy for consumers.
Bells and whistles are all very attractive, but the support and enthusiasm from Microsoft is less than encouraging.
Of course, Apple is not beyond selling the 'bells and whistles' factor either - but it has a history of a cult following who will buy any old crap they produce because it 'sure looks cool' and the Company did, at one time, build a quality product.
Microsoft has never had that benefit, so PC users live with the expectation of failure and are loathe to start over again once they have an OS that works for them and is (mostly) stable.
Meanwhile, Vista remains this decade's WinME - and this from someone who has lived with WinME, Vista - and OSX.....

[yearight3]

And another thing. People aren't "choosing" Vista. It is getting shoved down their throats. Walk into any of the toy stores (Best Buy, CC, Staples, etc.) where many of the ill-informed buy their computers. You get ONE choice, Vista, and the unknowledgeable salespeople there surely aren't going to tell you how you might get XP. Dell, on the home side, only offers XP with lower performing garbage AMD processors. You have to buy on the Small Bus. side to get a decent machine with XP. So people aren't CHOOSING it because they often aren't given the choice

[richardmitnick]

What makes you think I am a Microsoft stock holder?

I had two aging XP machines with 133 FSB. I wanted to get something faster and more modern, like a 633 or 833FSB; but I did not want to go through the business of installing Vista later, when XP support ends.

So, in fear and trepidation, I bought my machines with Vista, one Vista Business, the other Vista Home Premium.

I have simply had no problems, not with apps, not with periferals, nada, zilch.

I am very happy with Vista.

[rlo11885]

I bought a laptop with windows vista, for one purpose mostly and that was to use my USB 2.0 Drive. Then, I take it home, I'm happy and plug in my jump drive to see what? An error message that this hardware cannot be loaded or some garbage to that extent. So, I bought a copy of XP and it worked fine. I hate vista, its slow and still has bugs. The only thing I noticed that was definitely a lot better, was picking up networks, but thats all. I will be waiting until XP is on its very last legs before I even think about switching to Vista unless they can get the kinks worked out in it.

[chuckles100]

One reason why I uninstalled Vista was the need to upgrade all of my software. It might be that I'm just a dummy but a lot of my old software either would not run or was not acting the same way I had become accustom to. Office 2003 was one as well as Adobe. I had to upgrade Adobe, at a cost of $100 bucks, to be able to print the newsletter I put out for our local rescue service. I could not figure out how to do a few things in Office because of changes that were made in the way Vista stores information. After the cost of the upgrade to move up to Vista and Adobe I could see that it was going to become to much for my wallet.

I have always been one of the first to upgrade to a new OS when they came out and this system has the same smell as ME when it hit the market,just another upgrade to either make money or make it look like they are doing something to make advances in their product. I 'd rather that they take thier time and just make a well working system.

[terrayr]

Why don't we properly take a look at your comment. What sort of system do you run that vista is "slower, clunkier, not more secure, more annoying, and convoluted in its organization"? If you have proper system requirements (which regrettfully is necessary for vista, as it was for XP) vista actually runs MUCH smoother and faster than XP does. You need only to understand how to properly run a machine. I have a dual-boot set up with XP and Vista for many purposes, my primary purpose was becauase I am a computer technician and needed to learn about Vista to help my customers. I have been through each beta, and RC releases for Vista and am now running the business version. With this in mind, I do love vista now. If you took the time to get to know the system you can mostly customize the "annoyances" to go away to meet your needs and wants. For example how it asks your permission to do things (which Is probably a good idea for users who think Vista is less secure, it is to avoid users from clicking on potentially harmful material and infecting their system, or more so to stop unwanted malicious software from automatically infiltrating and activating processes without concent), you can turn this off if you took the time to learn about it, but I do not recommend turning this security feature off if you think Vista is less secure than XP.

Now for your information, Vista is 10 times more secure than the latest update XP has. Many of the holes in XP have been not only been repaired, but redesigned so the whole does not need to patch at all. Do not put down other users because they have grasped the later technology better than you have, if you simply took the time to look more into this new operating system, and perhaps tried to run it on a proper system you would see that there are actually many benefits to the new operating system, especially at a corporate level. The organization of Vista is not only better, but perhaps revolutionary if looked at from the right perspective. People do not like vista because it is different and they fear it.

And just so you dont jump at me about being a Windows enthusiast or something, I am writing this comment from my Mac laptop, just so you are not so quick to judge this time.

[HAL90001]

h2. Get a real OS:
h1. U N I X

[yearight3]

Removed by Moderator ON 2 COMPARABLE MODELS, VISTA IS SLOWER THAN XP. It's COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND COMMON SENSE. do you think all those useless "widgets" and effects run on air? They run on MEMORY. SYSTEM RESOURCES. If you have 2 similiarly configured PC's, which do you think will run faster??? Did you READ PC World's test reports??? I HATE when people speak without knowledge to back up what they say. Clunkier. um, can you say, CANCEL OR ALLOW? Or do you actually ENJOY your screen fading and having to answer an annoying dialogue every time you make a move?? More convoluted as in, when people have been using Windows for 15 years now, and KNOW where everything is, and what it's called, WHAT POSSIBLE REASON is there to rename them and move them???? C'mon, use your head please






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[Number3124]

well the real reason is the gamers we wouldn't be able to play our older games because Vista closed support for older software that the games need and lots of people think Vistas Aero interface is ugly

[civilwarbuff]

I agree. I had to replace two eight year old PC's in my house this past summer, and I opted for Vista. I like the security, and the UAC. I heard that the biggest menace is UAC, but I do not see it at all. I do not get a lot of pop ups, but when I do, I like that it asks me if I want to continue or cancel.

[Number3124]

are you kiding?!?!?!?!?!?! the UCA is the biggist pain in the neck ever!!!

[terrayr]

you can turn the UCA off, its hidden deep in the settings but you can do it...it wont bother you with all those permissions questions again...it is much nicer once you turn em off. if you need instructions ill google it for you, but its out there, i did it the first week i had vista.

[Number3124]

no i don't use Vista on any of my pcs i tried it 1s at a computer store and couldn't stand it if they don't come up with anything better than Vista when/if they put XP on the unsupported list ill probably get a Mac or Linux

[mpheadley]

Microsoft should focus on quality rather than quantity. Instead of coming out with a new OS every few years, make one every 7-10 years. And then create good updates to the current OS in between. Maybe after 7-10 years people would WANT to spend 200 bucks for a new OS. I certainly don't want to spend 200 bucks every 3-5 years.

[mikeh22]

Almost everyone staying with Windows is better off with XP. See
When to convert from Windows XP to Vista, part 2
http://www.cnet.com/...9784657-33.html

[DaveInNC]

By far the most frustrating thing that I have found about Vista is all the changes that were made for no apparent reason. So very many things were not made better; they were just made different. However, there are some really nice new features in Vista, most buried deeply. For instance, if you are copying a large number of files and there is a problem, Vista will copy all the files that it can before popping up the trouble window. There are many more goodies. Of course, not being able to run all your old programs and hardware is always a HUGE frustration!

[richardmitnick]

I am really delighted to be so happy with Vista, to be running all of my apps, all of my peripherals, and to be having no problems.