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[cfischer83]

This is ridiculous! What is with all the Vista bashing? You seriously need to get off the Vista-hating bandwagon and think for yourselves. With over 100 million Vista users already I'm sure you're going to be able to find plenty of horror stories mixed in there, but most people have a pleasant experience with Vista. I am running Photoshop 7.0 with no problems. How can it be that people are having problems with newer versions?

This happens EVERY time there is a new Windows. It happened with 95, 98, ME (which did suck, and Vista is no ME) and it happened with XP... in a few years everybody is going to be saying they won't upgrade to Windows 7 because Vista is compatible with everything. it's bologna! All my old XP apps work just fine with Vista. Photoshop, Office 03, EasyPHP, Trillian, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, SmartFTP, Picasa, all my messengers, Stardock apps, every browser, my 4 year old printer, 7 year old scanner and so far everything I've plugged into it.

Think for yourselves!

[WardABWE]

Since when is reporting the facts "bashing"?

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[rgreen4]

This article is correct. Many vendors are not supporting their customers who have existing products. The customers then wind up blaming Vista, when in fact they should blame the program vendors.

[ericthemad]

Vista was in Beta for 2 yrs.
You can't blame Microsoft.

[art209]

Most of the software incompatibilities I've run into with software moved from an XP computer to a Vista computer is with the change in the help file system, and I believe there are several workaround options. Has anyone had any luck running a Vista incompatible program (that wouldn't run at all in Vista) using the compatibility mode options available under program properties?

Art

[DoctorDoom]

I agree with the first poster - the Vista bashing has to stop.
Look, I use a computer for a good 12-16 hours a day, everything from Software Development to gaming, to anything under the sun and I have absolutely no problems with Vista whatsoever.
And to call Vista "Windows ME-esque" is a totally irresponsible statement. Vista is far superior to lousy 6-year-old (how old is that in computer years, 3000?) Windows XP.
Once again, I have to say it, this is like a flashback to when Windows XP came out. All the whiners and complainers will be using Vista in a year and will love it.
So, just do us all a favor and get over it. If you hate Vista so much, go back to cr@ppy old XP or Ubuntu or OS-X or whatever will stop your whining.

[danielcreech]

I agree. I have been running Vista for about 7 months now and have had very few problems. In fact, I find that when it does have a problem, it is MUCH better at actually pointing you in the right direction to finding a solution than XP ever was. Whereas XP troubleshooting basically pointed you directly to Device Manager to reinstall drivers or just suggest you search the Internet for a solutions, Vista actually steps back and looks at what program you were running, tries to determine the vendor of it and their website, and gives you a link directly to it.
Vista is also a whole lot nicer to work with physically. XP is constantly plagued with artifacts and glitchiness that Vista just doesn't have. And all of my peripherals have so far worked with it. Oh wait, yes I do have an 8 year old scanner that probably should have been made a paper weight years ago anyway which doesn't. Umm...that's my problem, not Microsoft's. You wanna talk about not supporting a lot of different software and peripherals...let's talk about proprietary little Apple over there.

Come on, folks, it's time to move forward, not backward. If you can't afford to upgrade your hardware, then by all means stay with XP (or Linux) but don't diss the better options that are available to the rest of us who choose them.

[DarrylDWoods]

I remember when Windows 95 came out, it was blasted in some quarters as inferior to the preceeding Windows 3.1. Then Windows 98 was the best thing Microsoft ever did, especially after introduction to Windows ME. Now Windows XP was a god-send because Vista is crap.

Oh please!!

[DarrylDWoods]

Here's a fact for you: Most Vista bashers don't own or use Vista!

[vlad]

It not all Microsoft's fault, take for instance the Kensington Expert Mouse track ball. Kensington lists the input device as "Certified for Windows Vista" on their web page; ( http://us.kensington.../html/2200.html ), but all the while the functionality of this item is much better in XP rather than Vista. In XP you can program all four buttons to perform different functions using Kensington's MouseWorks software, but in Vista the four bottons are reduced to two because the OS, (XP or Vista) will not recognize this as a four button device. Why? Because Kensington will not dedicate the resources in updating the MouseWorks software to be compatible with Vista. Yet this item remains labeled Certified for Windows Vista, which is very misleading.

[tomjennings83]

i dont understand vista works great for me.

[rgreen4]

Actually, there is a reason so many look back at 3.1 with such fondness. Up until 3.1, Windows was pretty much a techies playtoy. In the mid-80's Microsoft even took to giving copies to PC manufacturers to include in their machines. No books or instructions. We got a copy of 2.13, and it was terrible. Of course, no one had a mouse then.
Windows 3.0 came out in the 90 or 91 and was fairly good, but still suffered from requiring all the font add-ins to do anything other than the build in Courier Typeface. I just recently tossed some Bitstream font discs I came across. Windows 3.1 had all those glorius True-Type built in fonts, would run on fairly modest resources and did not have some arcane serial no./COA number to be entered when you loaded the software.
That serial number that had to be keyed in to actually load Windows 95 onto the machine was horrible (according to some people). Then in 2001 when XP came out and you actually had to go on line or call up to activate! your software, oh, the screaming, wailing, hair pulling and knashing of teeth. Of course they have all forgotten that six years later. Especially now that they have a new whipping boy.

[Number3124]

The "Vista Experience" varies a lot from person to person. For example I had an awful time with Vista and ended up retuning the PC. My friend had a bad time to, he ended up re-installing XP from a back-up drive. But I hear a lot of people don't have to many problems, so I don't know whats up with it, but I know I'm never using it.

[jarod]

Vista is for the clueless that insist on keeping their lives miserable! Wake up and move forward like the rest of the world. MS is dead, always has been. JUst took 14 years for people to finally see that. You can't keep selling garbage forever!
VISTA = Virus Inside, Switch To Apple!

[Number3124]

> VISTA = Virus Inside, Switch To Apple!
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Nice one:^0

[DoctorDoom]

The fact is that Vista is great and does all that I need it to do, and does it well. I don't like being overcharged by 200 or 300 percent so I won't be switching to (cr)Apple anytime in my lifetime.

[jarod]

Overcharged?? You say Vista works well for you? What do you do with it?

[DoctorDoom]

It's not my fault Crapple sux. BTW, I'm a paid software developer, have been for 20+ years, that's what I do with MY computers. Well, that and gaming and just about everything else you can think of. Vista rocks. Sorry if you can't accept that.