Windows Vista

I hate Windows Vista.Anyone else?

Originally Posted by robsan

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I hate Windows Vista.Anyone else?

No I love it.

<- likes it a lot. Not love, but it does everything I want, and not much that I don't.

No love for it, but I don't hate it either.

I have no reason to love or hate it either. It gets the job done, and I'm happy with that.

I use Vista Home Premium Tablet Edition on my own and XP Pro at work.

Here in Greece a lot of people are calling them Windows Svista (=erase'em). IMO, they are nice, but they are a resource hog and I hate the constant nagging. Come October though the new version will be released, and hopefully they will be improved. For the time being, XP Pro at home and Server 2003 at work.

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

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it does everything I want, and not much that I don't.
I agree with you here, but that's only part of the story. My problem is that it does nothing more for me than XP did (and, come to think of it, nothing really useful that '95 did not do) and it does all this so much more slowly than '95 (or even XP) that I would change back in a heartbeat if it were easy to do so.

I like it.

I got Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 from college for $25 total. After about an hour of setting everything EXACTLY the way I want it. It's been running amazingly for the last 2 years (I built a pretty spectacular gaming rig at the time and DX10 was a big deal for me).

No complaints here.

I really hated it when I bought it. It's got better but I'm still not happy.

In the past year I bought a work station with Vista Home Premium. An XPS Dell laptop ( loaded to the hilt ) with Vista Ultimate, and an HP workstation replacement type laptop with Vista Home Premium.

For the first 6 months, I could have kicked myself in the butt for investing that kind of money and not going to a very nice Apple work station and and a Powerbook Pro. But the damage has been done.

Vista has improved with the first service pack. But on a cost/value basis it's a definite fail. It's an absolute resource hog and there are not enough discernible improvements over XP to merit the change to Vista, let alone the additional high costs.

To the poster above that said he wishes he could return to XP. You generally can and it's not particularly difficult. It would be particularly galling to me to pay for a "new and improved" OS and then pay more to convert it back to the old OS!

I've heard that there is not one enterprise size user in the US ( perhaps the world, and this includes Microsoft Corp. ) that uses Vista as their primary OS and platform. Anyone know if this is true? If it is, then it's very telling.

Microsoft's next OS is being rushed to market ( I think beta versions are already available ). I hope it's a lot better than Vista.

In any event, the next time I make a major computer investment I think I'll go to Apple. I'm getting awful tired of constant virus scans, malware scans, and permission messages constantly.

It was more comfortable to use than XP, but Windows 7 is what Vista needed to be. If anybody wants a Vista Ultimate Serial / key on the cheaaaaaap let me know.

I turned the permission messages off...

It's adequate. I'm really not fussed with the operating system so long as I can run Firefox, Office and a decent Java IDE.

Originally Posted by Eason

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It was more comfortable to use than XP, but Windows 7 is what Vista needed to be. If anybody wants a Vista Ultimate Serial / key on the cheaaaaaap let me know.

Yeah, but for anyone who SERIOUSLY thinks that Vista offers no benefits over Win95/WinME/Win2k/WinXP - (thats laughable, by the way. In fact it does in fact offer some pretty significant advantages over XP, regardless of what you do on the computer) they are going to hate Windows 7. Because Vista is way more Windows 7-like than XP is Vista-like. At some point, someone is going to say "I'm switching back to Vista, this new OS is crap!" or " There hasn't been a good OS since Windows 3.1. I'm switching to Mac."

Go ahead. Get a Mac. You are who they make those for.

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

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Yeah, but for anyone who SERIOUSLY thinks that Vista offers no benefits over Win95/WinME/Win2k/WinXP - (thats laughable, by the way. In fact it does in fact offer some pretty significant advantages over XP, regardless of what you do on the computer) they are going to hate Windows 7. Because Vista is way more Windows 7-like than XP is Vista-like. At some point, someone is going to say "I'm switching back to Vista, this new OS is crap!" or " There hasn't been a good OS since Windows 3.1. I'm switching to Mac."

Go ahead. Get a Mac. You are who they make those for.

but I switched from Macs right after OSX came out...

Glad this topic came up. Does anyone have experience using 64-bit Vista?

I'd like to have the 64 bit version for the graphics software I use but have heard some bad things about backwards compatibility.