[Levi]

davebarnes said:

What a stupid, irrelevant article.



When the dust settles in 3-5 years, 90% of the PCs in the first world will be running Windows Vista.



Vista's flaws will make no difference.



And, I say this as an Apple FanBoy with only Macs in my home-based business. Yes, I think Mac OS X is better, but that is not important.



Windows Vista will dominate. Totally.

Perhaps perhaps not...

Already Microsoft has announced that the successor to Vista will be out in 2009. From what I read from various internet articles, many companies take a year or two before they transition to the newer operating system. If that is true, then perhaps many companys may just leap frog Vista and transition into the successor to Vista like many did from Windows 98 or Windows 2000 to Windows XP. This is only conjecture on my part, but if I were in an IT dept position and I knew that a more robust Vista successor was on the horizon then I would just wait particularly when Vista today and for the immediate term is still lacking some drivers and a service pack or two.

Just my thoughts.

I had Vista on my computer till last night and i said the heck with it, removed it, and reinstalled Windows XP. I feel like I have a new computer that can do things with XP that it still cound not with Vista. Oh by the way my computer had everything it needed to run Vista, including 2 gigs of Ram and two XFX 7800 GTX videocards that could not run in SLI under Vista. I can use software and games now (again) that I could not under Vista.

The only thing I "miss" under Vista is AERO, but that is not big deal because I have Stardock ObjectDesktop that can make my desktop look just as "cool" or cooler than Vista did.

Oh and I can once again play videos and/or movies that kept giving me a blue screen and shut down under Vista.

I agree that Windows (rightly or wrongly) will still dominate, but perhaps it won't be Vista but the successor to come which will come out in 2009.

I paid the price of a major applicance for Windows Vista Ulitimate. I should have just saved my money and either bought its successor in 2009 for by the times they get the bugs out of Vista the successor should be on the market OR I should get an Apple Mac for my computing needs and a game console for games.

Just my thoughts...right or wrong.

[powermacj7]

I got Vista running on a HP laptop. At first, not known to me, being a recent Mac user, that HP posted a BIOS update before upgrading to Vista. I had major problems with my first install of Vista. Upon getting all my updates, I was able to reinstall Vista without again installing XP.
Also in Vista is Disk Management, which I found to be very useful. On my laptop it had a recovery parition. After installing Vista, I wanted to reclaim that disk space, and Disk Management let me do that with a few clicks.
As some one mentioned, blacken screen, you get used to it. And using the Mac for a long time, it is easier to click than put your admin password in everytime.
I think the mark has been raised wit Vista, and Apple needs to answer with Leopard. OSX is a great OS, limited.

[jawatson]

Here's one other tremedously irritating thing about Vista. My Lexmark E240 laser printer had a Lexmark-furnished driver for XP which handled double-sided printing very nicely, and very simply. There is no Lexmark driver for Vista, and the MS driver does double-sided printing by printing an EXTRA PAGE with a huge black arrow on it that says "Put the other page back in the printer with this arrow pointing away from you". DUH! Let's waste even more paper and toner and time.

[jos5ph]

WHAT A BUNCH OF .................. would any of you like CHEESE with your WHINE????

GET THE ...........OVER IT ALREADY!!!............ I have Vista... and it's a far cry better then some of the stuff MS put out to us in earlier versions of other software... if ya all are so great...........come up with your OWN OS!

[Levi]

jos5ph said:

WHAT A BUNCH OF .................. would any of you like CHEESE with your WHINE????



GET THE ...........OVER IT ALREADY!!!............ I have Vista... and it's a far cry better then some of the stuff MS put out to us in earlier versions of other software... if ya all are so great...........come up with your OWN OS!

My opinion after said short diatribe remains the same and that is that Vista will go the way of Windows ME...

I don't have to build my own car just because I don't like a particular make. Same with an OS.

I alreay bought, installed, and uninstalled Vista, but instead of building my own I may consider Apple as my next purchase.

By the way, my reinstalling XP I feel like I have UPGRADED from Vista...

Edited by Cosmo, no personal attacks or swearing is allowed on the forums

[jennyc]

It also blacks out mysteriously when you are NOT in some kind of UAC change process, just typing a document for example. like it has to go think about it for 5 seconds.I got a 3ghz/1gb PC; had no choice but Vista Home Basic, and it's slow as sh... treacle in winter. Long pause opening files, browsing files, and many other functions intermittantly. Sometimes seems it's having trouble multi-tasking.Seems to be a bug moving files from folder to folder, where it has to calculate the size of the files, think about it then spend time m-o-v-i-n-g-t-h-e-f-i-l-e-s. Since when did files have to be actually moved from one place on the HD to another? The first time I did this was to move a couple of gigs from folder1 to folder2. it estimated, like, 2869 minutes to do the operation Fortunately it only took about 15mins... 15mins to move files on the same HD? Lastly it is unstable, and when one thing crashes it can bring down everything else. So no improvement there!

[StormX2]

have had vista at work for quite a while now

i dont see any problems with it as an every day machine

but then again they all have 2 gb memory and what not...
average people dont need that much memory
nor a deccent video card...

Vista will join my list of Stupid OS's

it now gives the lonely Win ME a Friend =)

[VorDesigns]

Explorer; broken.Networking; works sort of but...After almost twenty years of working with MSOS and designing, implementing and troubleshooting networks, I shouldn't have had to go through ten minutes of hell to get wireless networking running. Ubuntu Desktop with no drivers was easier.

[JohnC2007]

I have purchased a HP Notebook with Vista Ultimate. I did not realize at the time it was the 64-bit version.

I have went into websites to upgrade software for Vista, if the website said it is Vista ready, then I purchased the software and when trying to install the software, it states that it is not compatible with 64-bit.

I then call tech-support and they say that there software is only 32-bit Vista compatible and not 64-bit compatible and they have no plans on creating a 64-bit compatible version or do not know when they will create a 64-bit compatible version.

I feel that if software is being advertised as being able to run on Vista, then the website should also state if it is 32-bit only or 32-bit and 64-bit Vista compatible.

[deletor]

Vista sucks up peoples money like juice.
My desktop: E6600, nvidia 680i, 8800slied, 4G Ram, 4Hdds ...Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

There's always a system freeze or a long pause for many things. Files transfer errors folder security setting conflicts, all kinds of anoying functionality problems I don't have with Windows XP when I boot from it. I thought XP was quite bad, but Vista has made me like XP better at many things. I am trying out linux versions these days.

I really can't stand the long pauses with Vista. I paid too money money for all the expensive parts just to get such long pauses.

[obxbookie]

Another thing I hate about vista is the IE properties. In order to get to it you have to open IE and select tools. Before all you had to do is right click IE on desk top and there it is. Hate it!!!

[Number3124]

One of the things I don't like about Vista is the lack of properties boxes. They replaced all of the right-click properties menus with a customize window]:),
and the Aero interface is ,to me any way, incredibly ugly!

[Archimedez]

1) Inability to MIGRATE from 64-bit XP to 64-bit Vista. Seriously, requiring not one BUT TWO clean installs is just profoundly stupid (XP-to-32bit Vista; then 32bit Vista to 64bit Vista. Number of user settings that survived the 2-hop: 0)

2) SLOW

3) FAT - REALLY FAT (I remember my reaction when I started loading Windows 3.1 from 15 {OMG!!!} floppies circa 1989: "My operating system consumes almost an entire megabyte of hard drive space").

4) "User Experieince" index is rather arbitrary; doncha think? I'd like to take a peak at the algorithims.