Hasta la Vista

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/1136.html

 

[ic]

In fact, you don't have to go far to find stories of people deserting Vista for Windows XP. There have even been reports of users launching their Vista laptops off hotel balconies in frustration.

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Why blame the hardware for Microsoft's operating system .

Having said that, the only thing preventing me from installing Ubuntu Linux over Vista on my notebook, is time - I have booted off the Ubuntu 7.04 LiveDVD and tested my notebook, and everything seems to work in Ubuntu, so as soon as I get a chance...​

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[fskmh]

There have even been reports of users launching their Vista laptops off hotel balconies in frustration.

Perhaps they were trying to give it a speed boost .

 

[risingtide]

I read somewhere that VISTA is said to be the 3rd or 4th worst piece of commercial software ever produced, following closely on the heels of Windows ME.
I spoke to some hardware support guy who said that he reverted 8 of his customers back to XP.
One of my customers bought a new computer, the first thing I notice is that the harddisk is going all the time, it never stops doing something. I suspect it will last about 6 months before it crashes.

 

[Lord Anubis]

Voetsek Vitsa

Its prolly the buggiest OS since 98 or ME.

I often get random BSOD, freezes, lock-up, few of my old devices work e.g printer and scanners ... and yep some of my favourite games won't install....but all said...its pretty...but you can do the same with a few available GUI toys on XP anyways without having to fork out a couple of grand.

My advice ..stay away..its just a pain in the backside!!

Last week I had a codec incompatibility. The codec became corrupted (standard mpeg ax file in vitsa codecs).

It caused explorer to keep open and close and started after I tried to use the built in moviemaker. I eventually had to rename and delete the codec file through task manager with amoerse battle due to every step the OS requesting permissions etc. If I hadn't known how to do that or what to do I would prolly have had to format. Thank fully I managed to rename the file and then delete it to get the OS to at least let me go online to find a fix. The dvd disk was useless as a the repair facility didn't work like with XP!!!

Its that type of cr@p that wastes time...'cos it took me a day to figure out which file it was. Why..because error reporting, debuggers, event viewer...all cr@p in Vitsa

 

[LabAnimal]

out of all honesty, i havent really had problems with vista!. Works better than XP for me!
Why blame Microsoft when the hardware and software don't work, it only means the people that created the hardware and or software didnt write it for vista and that they are not supporting it, this is not a MS fault!.

Sure, Vista has bugs, but so did XP, and my opinion, so does Ubuntu and many other distro's, so bad that its un-usable!. Give me Vista anyday.

 

[BTTB]

A Laptop I recently bought came with Vista Business.
For simplicity I just formatted it and installed XP.

What the hardware suppliers should do is give the customer the option of installing XP or Vista from scratch. In other words both operating systems with the 32 and 64 bit variants should be shown at first boot for installation purposes.

XP32
XP64
Vista32
Vista64

If the client chooses XP at first installation then perhaps as time progresses and the hardware vendors and MS come up to date with drivers, service packs etc or the person feels confident in trying Vista the customer could even upgrade to Vista from XP, although I prefer a clean installation.

People using Vista should install 2Gb's of Ram as opposed to XP which is fairly happy with 1Gb.

 

[supersunbird]

Problem is cheap laptops come with 512MB of RAM lol.

Vista looks grand and all that, but I still havent seen anything that makes me WANT to have it, no feature that makes me want it above XP...

 

[gregmcc]

There's no added benefit for most to switch to vista. Hell there's even a URL on how to make your Vista look like XP Have you ever tried to get to the Run command quickly on Vista?!

 

[theStudent]

....Why blame Microsoft when the hardware and software don't work, it only means the people that created the hardware and or software didnt write it for vista and that they are not supporting it, this is not a MS fault!....

Very easy to blame Microsoft.... the hardware was made before the software (Vista) (in most cases)... Therefore its the software makers responsibility to make sure that everything is compatible.

Its like all the car tyre manufacturers making a new car tyre made of concrete and blaming the roads for not being made of rubber.... the tyres must be made to suit the road that its clients use.. not vice versa!

 

[wcoetzee]

when xp came out allot of people also moaned and groaned about stability,
after awhile when they all upgraded the pcs, xp was the only os they wanted. this will be the same for vista and any new ms os to come

 

[Perdition]

when xp came out allot of people also moaned and groaned about stability,
after awhile when they all upgraded the pcs, xp was the only os they wanted. this will be the same for vista and any new ms os to come

It will eventually get there. MS can't afford for Vista to be the next ME so SP1 better resolve most of the issues people are experiencing. Personally I'm sticking with XP until the end of next year when I upgrade my PC.

 

[dabbler]

There have even been reports of users launching their Vista laptops off hotel balconies in frustration.

As they say, laptops really fly with Vista

 

[bwana]

when xp came out allot of people also moaned and groaned about stability,
after awhile when they all upgraded the pcs, xp was the only os they wanted. this will be the same for vista and any new ms os to come

People were excited about Windows ME.

 

[texo]

Have you ever tried to get to the Run command quickly on Vista?!

C'mon, dude!
It's even easier/faster in Vista than it was in XP. When you click on the start button, just type "run" in the search bar... or just type "cmd" to get to the prompt.

Instead of searching through your start menu for a program, just type the first few letters of its name and it'll appear within a second at the top of the list.

I'm really happy with Vista.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Yes - Bwana, I agree - Vista = ME in NT clothing.

Seriously though... Microsoft sucks with their new licensing...
whats with incredible ripoff selling xp home with their new notebooks? You want Pro? Pay big bucks for the upgrade.
And whats with some notebook vendors (Packard bell?) not supplying XP drivers for their SATA Raid controller, etc. etc.
It's a right bos up. Definately time to look at Apple Mac seriously... get 2Gb RAM and run XP as a virtual machine.

 

[Vice]

I regret ever having to buy 4 new IBM T60 laptops. Biggest mistake I've ever done this year. That Vista sucker is so slow it makes Neotel's launch of new services look cool. In the next week I'll be UPGRADING to Windows XP.

 

[Captain Beer]

Ive been using Vista for a few weeks, nothing wrong with it. All my programs work fine, all my devices work, and it's fast, everything opens in a second. One or two programs aren't too fond of Vista, but the same thing happened when I upgraded from 98 to XP.

What's with Linux? Been using it since 2004 (Mandrake, Ubuntu, Fedora), and that's a bad experience (KDE is pretty though ), takes ages to install, crashes everyday, and you wait a few minutes for programs to start. Even my friends who use my PC always ask me why it takes so long to do anything.

Oh well, that's my opinion anyhow, and if you don't like it **** you (evil laugh). I don't suck Bill Gates' tollie either.

 

[Tux]

What's with Linux? Been using it since 2004 (Mandrake, Ubuntu, Fedora), and that's a bad experience (KDE is pretty though ), takes ages to install, crashes everyday, and you wait a few minutes for programs to start. Even my friends who use my PC always ask me why it takes so long to do anything..

Weird. This PC's uptime: 3 months 1 week and six days 14:33:27 and I have yet to experience a crash.
Right now it's encoding a movie (Divx -> DVD)
It's burning a dvd with nero linux
Amarok's playing mp3s
And obviously I have FF open

Not bad for a piddly 1.7Ghz AMD with 1gb ram and Suse 10.2. Now let's see your high end vista machine do that in 3 month's time.

 

[orin76]

Weird. This PC's uptime: 3 months 1 week and six days 14:33:27 and I have yet to experience a crash.
Right now it's encoding a movie (Divx -> DVD)
It's burning a dvd with nero linux
Amarok's playing mp3s
And obviously I have FF open

Not bad for a piddly 1.7Ghz AMD with 1gb ram and Suse 10.2. Now let's see your high end vista machine do that in 3 month's time.

That is why I run Linux at home. It gives you so much more freedom and makes much better use of your computer's resources. On equivalent hardware, linux will always outperform windows (except maybe with 3D benchmarks).