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Posted by stabilizer at 8/30/07 2:31 p.m.

I am just your average joe that uses a computer and has a folder full of software that has served me well over the years that I have invested a fair amount of money in. I bought a new computer with Vista loaded on it only to find out almost none of my software will work with it. Now come on Mr. Gates haven't you enough money without making us buy all new software? I did not wish to play this game of making an all ready filthy rich man even richer. So I returned the computer got my money back and bought one with XP loaded on it. No fair Bill you know better this Vista could be your undoing. I am not the only one saying this, the computer store I ended up in was flooded with people doing exactly the same thing.

Posted by ethanbowenwon at 9/6/07 12:51 p.m.

Well this is how I look at it...
Windows Vista is almost the same thing as Windows XP Home Edition..Or WOW a little bit of security "updates"....A Windows XP computer can just be a secure as a Windows Vista PC. One reason why I am not upgrading is b/c it is the same thing...I think MS wasted thier time, money and resources to make a operating system that is like what Apple or whatever company came out with 1-2 YEARS ago....Plus even if they do get a pack out for Vista, it still is not going to make a heck a lot of a difference...Why upgrade? If someone can give me ONE GOOD reason why I should wast another $100 to upgrade when I just upgraded to XP in 2005 and it has done well for me....MS can't just stay with one great operating system...Plus XP's support is going to be canceled in 2009 or so, I am going to still have XP on all my computers...In my view Windows Vista sucks and many people have the same view on it...There is no point to upgrade when you get all the updates and extra stuff for Windows XP for cheap instead of upgrading to probably the worst Windows Operating System on this side of the World...Sorry...I had to get that view out there for those who are too scared to share it with the rest of the world...Ethan...

Posted by unregistered user at 9/17/07 1:22 p.m.

I agree, Windows Vista is a terrible OS, designed with only eye-candy in mind. It's almost as terribly incompatible with everything as any 64 bit version is. I would expect M$ to let us know they would be dishing out compatibility in the next Service Pack, but if they want to keep tight lipped, I'll keep my wallet tightly zipped too.

Posted by unregistered user at 10/31/07 3:43 p.m.

I agree that there are no really compelling reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista. There aren't really any reasons to upgrade to Office 2007 or to that latest cell phone or that latest whatever. But we still do it. I can't recall ever sitting down at my computer and saying to myself "if only my operating system or my word processor did such and such". I'm sure I've never said that, and yet I and most other people still upgrade. It's just human nature to want something new and shiny.

Posted by unregistered user at 12/25/07 12:03 a.m.

Yes I have a laptop and a desktop with Windows Vista thanks to Bill I cannot build my own systems anymore. Hint to hackers :) So far both do run good to my specifications with some tweeks. Even I installed the Candidate Release of the service pack with some tweeks. The service pack is not ready to be released as of now due the fact that if it is as bad as when i tried to install on other vista machines a lot of people will have major problems with it including crashes.

Posted by unregistered user at 1/6/08 1:28 p.m.

I have ran Vista since Day 2 of release, and was invovled in the beta testing. I do have to agree with most of you. In the begining it did look mostly like eye candy. But I continued to use it in support of M$'s efforts to get user involvment. But as time goes on i find the interface to be intuitive, my proccessor time has decreased due to the off loading of the GUI to my GPU and it actualy uses LESS ram on my system then XP did and on an 8 month install i had something occur that NEVER happened woith XP. My system NEVER slowed down, It was just as snappy as the day i installed. My Best advice for someone thinking about vista is a. wait on x64, the driver base is still sketchy, and that is not MS's faulth that is your hardware manufacturer. B. check with your software complany on your vista incompatiblility. most have put out vista compatibility patches. If you would read the tech blogs most vista softwaer problems were do to short cut programing on the developers part and those avenues were cut off in Vista for security reasons. Get used to it people. It is the next generation of operating system. You should not be askign yourselves what reason do you ahve to upgrade. The question is how much longer can you avoid it. 5 PC's 1 Ultimate, 1 Home Prem, 1 Basic, 1 XP Pro, 1 Server 2003, oh and a linux laptop.

Posted by unregistered user at 2/20/08 11:06 a.m.

I have\purchased a new laptop and used vista for 6 months apart from the security aspects vista in my opinion is not worth purchasing .The wordprocesser WORDPAD is as much good as nothing if I had purchased the software to upgrade I would have felt that I had been ripped off not impressed Mr Gates

John B in England

Posted by unregistered user at 2/20/08 9:39 p.m.

I have had Vista for several months and if your PC is a cheap 800mhz FSB kind of machine then yes, of course it will do poorly with Vista. I had experienced problems at first but that was due to the fact that I was running all new technology. Vista, Dx10, and GPUs that can utilize Dx10 are all relatively new. There will be problems. Currently, I'm running games like Crysis and Hellgate: London with settings maxed and the difference between Dx9 and Dx10 is worth the upgrade alone. Not to mention that Windows Aero looks great and makes it impossible to even glance at an XP screen. The post earlier is correct when it states, "The question is not if you will upgrade, but rather, how long you can avoid it." Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 1333mhz FSB, 2.66ghz OCed @ 2.8ghz, 4 gbs Mushkin 800mhz DDR2 RAM OCed @ 850mhz 5-5-5-12, Zotac 8800GT 512mb VRAM 700mhz Core Clock, 2000mhz Mem Clock (effective)

Posted by unregistered user at 3/22/08 11:50 p.m.

So many people dissatisfied with Vista. Me being one of them. What a flop. How gullible was I?? Cost me thousands in hardware to get it up and running, still hate it. Thanks Bill. Obviously no quilt there. Sleep well Bill.

Posted by unregistered user at 3/24/08 9:03 a.m.

You guys that hate Vista seriously crack me up.... haha, look I'm laughing right now! There is basically one simple answer to your vista problems (If you have them, which I dont, and never have since I've had it from last May), maybe two. Number 1, IF YOUR MACHINE IS A PIECE OF CRAP YOU'RE GONNA HAVE PROBLEMS!!! Buy something half decent and you'll be impressed that EVERYTHING WORKS! Second, Yes there have been driver problems and software incompatibility (albeit I haven't had ANY problems with ANY LEGACY software at all) but go to the manufacture of the software's website, they should have patch's. THen some of you guys say "Oh but I shouldn't have to patch my software to make it work...." No you shouldn't have to thats right, but thats the software companies fault not M$. Lastly give the OS a try, I hate the people who haven't even touched it and complain to me all the time how they hate it, when I ask them if they've even use it they say "ummm no..." Well how the heck can you judge it then??!??! (I work at BestBuy I hear this alot) And no, most BestBuy computers are not an example of a "decent" machine cause they are pretty much junk, most of them, some are slightly less junk...

Posted by unregistered user at 3/31/08 8:48 p.m.

I don't see what all the problem is. I have been very happy with Vista. I like how it fixes problems for you. I like how information is organized. I like things like the Windows Sidebar and think it can be really usefull if more Gadgets are developed for it. And even if it is just eye-candy, I like the way it looks. I work profesionally with ASP.Net and other programming and I have yet to have an issue with it in that respect. So far anything I have tried to install has been seemless or close to it. The hardest thing I've had to do is patch something.

Now I bougt a new computer with 3Gb of RAM to make sure it would run well. I believe Microsofts only fault was underestimating the minimum requirement. I think anything under 2Gb is not going to work. If you think you are going to upgrade a 5 year old machine to Vista, then of course you are going to have problems. Thats how computers work. But if its a new machine that can definitely run it, I say go for it all the way.

Posted by unregistered user at 5/3/08 12:51 p.m.

Or you could move to Linux......

Posted by unregistered user at 5/11/08 10:49 a.m.

i recently downloaded widows sp1 for vista home premium and since the download my scroll section on the touch pad stop working and no mater what drivers or patches i download and install i cant sroll up or down nor left or right the drivers for the scroll sections keep giving error cant install drivers for scroll