I have to day that I agree qith pcdos...This is an OS that seriously needs to be rethought.Like Steve Ballmer said,Vista is already bigger than Xp,and we need to make sure it doesn't get any bigger.But yet,Microsoft is trying to come to a compromise with their own programs.Many users that have tried both Vista and XP would opt for XP.As mentioned earlier,Microsoft and Steve Ballmer both stated that there is still room for improvemtn on Vista,but if they are aiming to keep vist no larger than it already is,there is NO room for improvement.Another thing,I have tried both XP and Vista,XP is a smoother running system and I have had numerous amounts of compatibility problems with Vista.Another problem is that Microsoft is trying to make this run smoother for big companies,they also need to think about the people at home who are being forced to use this less than efficient program.One more issue,XP isnt that expensive.However,Vista Home Premium is.They are forcing us to spend more for less!!

A work in progress? Think about that for a minute. How much did Microsoft spend to produce Vista? How man years did it take? How many Beta testers warned them about how bad it was and how completely off-track it's, "improvements" were? How many executives would have let that product out the door having spent more than 10 minutes trying to use it as customers would?

Instead of focusing all of their efforts on taking care of the "golden Goose" which is their OS business, Microsoft spent their time trying to be something else - Google. Instead of making sure Vista exceeded customer expectations they launched a hostile takeover of Yahoo. Instead of listening to their beta testers and their own insiders who we know warned about Vista's massive shortcoming they decided instead to simply use their monopoly to shove t down people's throats while they focused on selling advertising.

Every senior executive that had anything to do with Vista should be fired if Msft is to be saved.

I now have to take a class to "understand" Vista. Hopefully I can stop swearing every time I sit down at the computer. Do "Steve and the gang" pay any attention to the common people's comments? My thinking is not unless it will pay them big bucks.

Going at what Candyceweber says: I now have to take a class to "understand" Vista. Hopefully I can stop swearing every time I sit down at the computer. Do "Steve and the gang" pay any attention to the common people's comments? My thinking is not unless it will pay them big bucks. Well, Microsoft does consider your comments and gives you this generic answer: "We appreciate your concern, and we are working harder than ever to meet the needs of our customers". Am I right?

I think 'pcdos' and 'bigolddog' stated things quite well. I will say that if we're all honest, MOST software is a "work in progress". Generally, however, the software hasn't taken "man-years" to develop. Vista is a let down and it doesn't outshine the XP that's supposed to replace. The visual effects can be obtained with software from Stardock and the rest of the OS doesn't work as well as XP. I think Microsoft is treading down a dangerous path. They should be who they ARE and stop trying to BE Google or BUY Yahoo. FOCUS. Personally I've purchased 4 full copies of XP and am seriously looking at Linux and running XP in virtual machines.

I don't know About everyone else, but I have a new Dell system with Vista Home Premium and I think it works fine. I also have systems with XP and Xandros and they also work fine. I guess I don't see What the big Stink is all about!

I would agree. I've been running Vista on at least one of my machines since it was in beta. Currently it's running on my main desktop and my main laptop. My point was that if anyone reads key sites on the Internet they would NOT come away with the impression that Mr. Ballmer is conveying. What I'm reading is that users don't want to switch to Vista, they want to stick with XP. Yes, XP is fine, but you have to change sometime. I started with CP/M and it's been a long road from there to Vista. I resisted switching from DOS to Windows because none of us really likes change, but the only thing constant IS change. Yes, Vista has some quirks, but so did XP when it first came out. It wasn't until SP2 that people started to quiet down. I'm happy with Vista and I use both it, XP, and Ubuntu. For those who don't want to change, don't. You'll have to change to something else eventually whether it's Windows 7 or Windows 2020.