Windows Vista’s unfair rap

Are you using Windows Vista?

  • Yes

    Votes: 102 45.5%

  • No

    Votes: 75 33.5%

  • Don't use Vista anymore

    Votes: 47 21.0%
  • Total voters
    224
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Windows Vista’s unfair rap

If you read the popular press, you could be forgiven for thinking that Microsoft foisted a disaster on the world with Windows Vista, its most recent desktop operating system. Fact is, Vista’s not all that bad. Now Microsoft has had enough, and is fighting back.
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How pathetic is that? A company releases an operating system which doesn't hold its own with its predecessor, and instead of answering the critics' concerns they respond
by 'fighting back'. Come on.... it's not a popularity contest. Make a program which works
or go away....
 
sorry

sorry ms - vista is a turd - is there is anything new and useful that it can do, something we can't do in xp?

Vista made me buy my first mac.
 
Why would we need a new operating system that uses more memory, more disk space, and higher spec hardware to do the same thing XP has done for us perfectly well for years?
Give us substance instead of bling.
 
risingtide said:
Why would we need a new operating system that uses more memory, more disk space, and higher spec hardware to do the same thing XP has done for us perfectly well for years?
Give us substance instead of bling.
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Exactly why do they think Huge companies don't want to go vista because they then have to Upgrade about 90% of all there computers where as xp is good enough and 2009 is around the corner.Hopefully they create a windows7 business that is aimed at business rather than media and bling.. So stop fighting and work an a better windows for windows 7.
 
The only reason why I am running vista is for the bling...

Gota admit, it does look nice! :-)
 
CrzWaco said:
Exactly why do they think Huge companies don't want to go vista because they then have to Upgrade about 90% of all there computers where as xp is good enough and 2009 is around the corner.Hopefully they create a windows7 business that is aimed at business rather than media and bling.. So stop fighting and work an a better windows for windows 7.
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Then there is NO guarantee that Windows 7 will be any better anyway
 
Vista needs more Ram

Only used Vista once when I received our new Laptop which was a beefy Core 2 Duo, but only had 1Gb of Ram.
Laptop ran very sluggishly so I simply put XP on instead and it was fine.
 
I bought a laptop last week. Pre-loaded with Vista. My desktop has been running XP for years and years and I've seen maybe 2 or 3 BSOD (blue screens of death). I updated the laptop (which took time) I then proceeded to install new drivers etc. All of a sudden I get BSOD and the laptop shuts down.

I tried safe mode boot and still got BSOD. I got BSOD with another few attempts untill I stuck the dvd in and went to a restore point. Why should I believe MS? I'll stick with the stability of XP rather.
 
I just love Vista!

If you don't try and load in on a system bought at a garage sale of a Chinese immigrant, it functions admirably. :D

I can't even remember what a BSOD is.

Well done Microsoft. The rest of the world is either jealous of your success, or mindlessly following the rhetoric of your competitors trying to win their share of the market.

To all you guys having issues with it: Think about it, why would it run just fine on one system and not on another? What is the variable here? Of course its definitely the hardware, so MS is not to blame here if manufacturers of PC electronics cuts corners like quality control.
 
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SharkBait said:
The only reason why I am running vista is for the bling...

Gota admit, it does look nice! :-)
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I work in an educational institution, and I see lots of laptops come my way with students buying them with Vista and 1 GB or even 512 MB of memory. You are perfectly right SharkBait... it is the bling that pulls so many people to it. I know most had no choice, but they all tell me it really looked good in the shop.
We recently moved to Office 2007 on our Computer Labs, and even though I disliked Office 2007 due to its new interface and getting to know it, ALL the students that I have spoken to just "love" it as it "looks so nice". This is even while they struggle to get to grips with where various buttons are. We even left 2003 on the workstations, and OpenOffice, but as yet, I have not seen students using that over 2007.
I don't say this as a bad or good thing, just as an observation.
 
Athos said:
I bought a laptop last week. Pre-loaded with Vista. My desktop has been running XP for years and years and I've seen maybe 2 or 3 BSOD (blue screens of death). I updated the laptop (which took time) I then proceeded to install new drivers etc. All of a sudden I get BSOD and the laptop shuts down.

I tried safe mode boot and still got BSOD. I got BSOD with another few attempts untill I stuck the dvd in and went to a restore point. Why should I believe MS? I'll stick with the stability of XP rather.
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You think maybe it was the driver and not the OS? Just a thought. My experience is the other way around, I've seen a boat-load of BSODs on XP and only 2 on Vista.

Can you imagine what hardware we will need to run Windows 7. Time to save up for 2 Quad Core 3GHz processors and 16GB RAM. Probably also need a 500GB hard drive JUST for the OS. :eek:
 
I've been running vista on my home desktop for almost 2 years (from the betas') my business machine since release and my laptop for the last six months. I've installed it on 46 computers of which 21 are desktops. it runs just fine on current technology. (I gather you do upgrade your hardware occasionally... right)

I don't get crashes, I don't get BSOD's. The biggest problem is users that are unable to get to grips with office 2007 and have no clue what the F1 key is for.

D
 
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MadMailMan said:
You think maybe it was the driver and not the OS? Just a thought. My experience is the other way around, I've seen a boat-load of BSODs on XP and only 2 on Vista.

Yeah it must have been the driver (I realized that), all I'm trying to say is that I had the laptop for just a few hours and I had already seen more BSOD's then I have ever seen on XP. I might have just been 1 guy who had a bad experience, either that or 1 of many :P
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ic said:
I've added another option as a means of distinguishing between those who have never used Vista and those who used to use Vista - like myself who used Vista and then installed Linux instead...
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ROFL!!! :D

Just had to get that little info in there, didn't ya!

:rolleyes:
 
Vista sux....i think intel is paying microsoft to increase the requirements needed to use the thing...
 
ic's extra poll option is the most important one, considering the nature of the article.

I bought a laptop with Vista Business more than a year ago and half the software I previously used on XP didn't work since the latest versions were not compatible with Vista at the time. Printer didn't work either. None of this was Vista's fault as it was simply the vendors that didn't have updated drivers at the time. However, it didn't matter since I still had to work... :) So I downgraded to XP and everything was fine.

Yes, today everything is sorted out and all the software / driver versions have been updated to work on Vista but I find myself still using XP simply because it's stable and I never had a problem with it to begin with. With Windows 7 not too far away and considering that just about every recognised techie pundit on every established IT site reckons it makes more sense to wait for Windows 7, I guess I may do the same. I actually don't have a problem with Vista, I'm just not convinced that it offers me anything substantial (other than looks) over XP. At the time, millions skipped the Windows Me OS due to its irrelevance as well. For a lot of users, Vista is clearly following the same path.
 
Yes I'm running Vista. It's working well, totally stable. Previously I upgraded my old XP box to Vista which didn't work well at all due to drivers not working.

In my, albeit limiteed experience, Vista's problems arise from either driver problems or from too little hardware, particularly memory. The driver problems must be laid at the feet of the hardware manufacturer.

I suspect that in many cases of Vista failure, if/when the hardware compatibility tool was run, warnings or error were displayed, and then ignored.

A new OS sometimes does require require new hardware in order to operate correctly. I'm sure that most of those squealing about their old kit not working would squeal even louder about their newe OS not taking advantage of the new options in their new kit.

The one problem I do have, is where a machine is sold with less than 2GB. Vista will not work well with less than 2GB.
 
bekdik said:
The one problem I do have, is where a machine is sold with less than 2GB. Vista will not work well with less than 2GB.
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I think this is the reason so many people hate Vista. Too many crappy PCs are being sold as Vista ready when they'd probably struggle to run XP :) For that though, I blame Microsoft. They shouldn't allow inferior hardware to ship with Vista.
 
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