DISQUS

BorninUSA · 1 year ago

Everything I have heard about Vista is that it is awful. Way to go Mr. Gates.

gwpriester · 1 year ago

I've been using Vista Home Edition Premium for about a year. I'm a professional graphic and website designer. I have not had any problems with Vista and even though it is somewhat different from XP once you get used to the way it works it's fine.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

What was the reason for the upgrade, anyway?

Do you know?

Even the people who use Vista without problems seem to think it's no better than XP.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

All this technology is sooo confusing.

mwestport · 1 year ago

Vista's OK. But just like car engines, with every successive version, Windows gets harder and harder to fathom. You have to turn off some safety features and it nags the hell out of you.

It also is set up for networks and multiple users. Learn about "run as Administrator" real quick. For us solo PC jockeys It needs a setting for " Log on as a lonely old miscreant living alone in my parents basement".

Apphouse50 · 1 year ago

It makes Vista the operating system for which my not-so-very-old peripherals have no drivers.

roycommi · 1 year ago

I am an IT admin and have used vista for about a year in an office environment when i ordered 20 new workstations. it works great and seems to be just fine as far as i am concerned. I dont get what all the haters are saying. it works smoothly for me and the users i assist.

Hangtown Danile · 1 year ago

From what I heard old Bill Gates has bowed out. So I guess that means he dumps Vista on us poor PC users and cashes out and lets us figure it out for our selfs...
What a guy.

HeartlandLiberal · 1 year ago

I direct an IT operation. We support around 500 computing devices. The vast majority are desktop and and laptop computer running XP. We have concluded based on simple analysis of business requirements that we are going to skip Vista completely, and wait for the next iteration of Windows. Mainly in the hopes it will not be a bloated, slow, resource hog that is just XP dressed up with a little stab at improved security. Security which can be achieved with XP and user education. Vista never offered anything in terms of feature sets that an actual return on investment analysis could justify, especially when you look at the outrageous hardware requirements just to get it run faster than a sick turtle at noon on a really, really hot day.

HeartlandLiberal · 1 year ago

One other comment, and the reason I will not upgrade at home, where I run four servers (3 Windows, one LINUX), one PC laptop, one LINUX desktop, and six PCs, some for home business, some for fun. Vista incorporates Microsoft's evolving philosophy of monitoring everything you do and reporting it back home to Microsoft if you are Internet connected. Some experts have counted over two dozen unnecessary ways this happens. Microsoft's ultimate goal is to pretend your license of the software is just on loan, and if they decide you are not running a legit version, and do something you do not like, they will just deactivate your install remotely if you are connected to the Internet, or the install will no longer boot or run full featured until you connect or pick up the phone and get 'reactivated'. The problem is, for people like me who build their own computers at home, and frequently rebuilt them and add new components, this becomes a nightmare merry-go-round of activations and potential shutdowns, since the install wants to depend on non-changing configurations as part of the recipe for deciding if the install is legit. It is a genuine Orwellian direction that Microsoft is heading down. So I won't be upgrading any of my XP instances at home, either. And if these trend continue, the number of LINUX machines I run will probably be increasing, and the Windows number going down to minimal required number. (P.S. One of the current PCs is a carefully built and maintained Windows 98 machine. Three pages of notes on how to make it work, including the ini file hacks to run games with Windows 98 on later generation fast processors. But it lives to serve the purpose of playing older games when I want to. For a while I needed it to support older clients, but that has died off finally.)

ndtovent · 1 year ago

Everything I've heard about vista is negative. It SUCKS! three close friends of mine have pc's and/or laptops with vista, and it was like taking a college curriculum for them just to learn it's basic operation. In addition, it runs very, very slowly.. If you're not heavily involved in visual media, what's so good about it?? For you techy admin types who've commented -- not all of us are trained as network administrators -- just FYI