Can we hold all of these people liable for fraud and misrepresentation? I mean, isn't obvious everyone was involved in pushing inferior product and false advertising? Of course MS is the #1 culprit, but we all know the corporations sucking off of the Gates tit all knew soon enough what they were pushing. Just more corporate rape of the people. I guess everybody wants to be Haliburton/KBR
Makes me want to puke

I upgraded to XP right after it came out and had a lot of trouble. XP eventually became a pretty good OS. I upgraded to Vista. Bad decision. Those old problems I had with the introduction of XP are like a walk in the park compared to Vista. I have learned my lesson. If it ain't broke..don't fix it. Vista, to me, does not have any new bells or whistles that are worth the headache of playing the waiting game for the promise of a service pack(s) that might or might not make it more compatible with older or other software.

Stinks is too good of a word for it.....

If you understood my message you'd know I owned Vista. If all you want to do is type a response to a message then Vista works quite well which puts it at the level of a Commodore 64. Checking out RAM, probably the first thing a beginner learns to do, only makes sense if your having a problem so either you don't know what you are doing or you are having a problem. My guess is you are a shill for Microsoft who's having a problem. Maybe you tried to run a game that runs quite well on XP and find then on Vista it either doesn't run or runs so slow as to be useless. The reason Vista runs so slow is it uses most of its computing power checking to see if your software is legal and making sure you are not using your computer to do something Mr. Gates doesn't approve of.

I personally didn't think Vista was necessary. My xp machine ran extremely well, best operating system ever. After a few months with vista and still having the xp machine I noticed a whole lot of improvements with Vista compared to xp. Networking, interface, driver management, just to name a few. As far as Vista running on old systems... no problems whatsoever. They all run vista Ultimate older machines as well. The only problem I had was trying to install Vista on my old, old machine that originally came with windows ME. It just wouldn't install. Its funny because my father who was having problems with his computer (purchased in 2002) told me he wanted to start from scratch. Having only 1gb of ram, an AGP low end 128mb graphics card, I installed Vista Ultimate. Not to mention he was truly impressed with the way it looked, it hasn't given him no problems till this day. I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit with no issues at all, only with iTunes. Not compatible yet, according to apple!