Hrm. I've been running Vista for three months now and have encountered no problems whatsoever. Yes, UAC is a pain, but there's a way of disabling that. Yes, not all hardware have Vista-compatible drivers but that's certainly not just Microsoft's fault, and that problem is definitely not inherent to the functionality of the OS but is due to the fact that the OS is new. And, yes, there are a lot of programs that don't run in Vista but, again, that's not inherent to the OS. XP had been around for years; of course almost all programs NOW are going to work with it. We just have to wait a bit with Vista.
After the first few weeks Vista was out, I broke down and bought an OEM copy from newegg.com for my Shuttle (that I bring to work). As a tech, I need to know how the damn thing operates in order to assist our unfortunate subscribers who had no choice but to get Vista on their new PCs that they bought retail or the impatient ones the bought it to upgrade their existing PCs.
Personally, I think Vista's still too green for me to suggest using it. There are certainly annoying aspects to the OS, such as the beyond-crappy defragmenter, the obnoxious UAC, the DRM crap, and the fact that "Games For Windows" (Vista) games are just as unstable as older made-for-XP games. As much as I like the look of the Vista Aero interface, I turned it off to try to eek out some performance from the low-end games I'm trying to get running on this PC. I just built this Shuttle earlier this year with known Vista-compliant hardware, so I don't understand why it's so freakin' unstable. Vista by itself blue-screens once an hour. :P
There are a lot of really, yet superficially, cool things about Vista. I'm not expecting MS to drop the bag on Vista like they did WinME (which deserved it). I'm betting a lot instability will be corrected through service packs and improved HW drivers from the HW manufacturers.
I don't expect MS to care about our complaints about the DRM and licensing issues, because they're trying to make a profit and I'm sure are also getting pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Unfortunately, I'm seeing more products use the activation method of XP & Vista, which is frustrating from an end-user's standpoint.
Vista will eventually work well and, yes, maybe it needed more work. More than anything, I think the thing that's hurting its sales figures is the fact that XP works so damned well that there's no need to upgrade. Until it becomes a Win98-like travesty of irritation and inability to do anything useful, people will keep using it. There's no reason not to, really.
They can harp on Linux and Mac all they want, but neither of those systems do the things many people want to do with their PC these days: play games. And, from everything I've seen, Macs don't work any better than anything else and are filled with annoying bugs to get anything to work properly.
Such is life. Vista will get better and one day we'll need it. I'm not sure if that'll be before the next OS, though.
A lot of Vista is ripped from Macs and Linux, but nothing that really makes the computer easier to use. I think they need to give Vista more time. Yeah, no one was running to replace XP like they were with ME. Yeah, Microsoft has increasing competition in today's market. It doesn't mean that the OS is bad. People are so quick to judge nowadays :)
Microsoft has really lost sight of what people want/need, but I don't think this OS is the end-all, be-all of their future.
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Date: 2007-10-02 09:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-02 11:06 am (UTC)Personally, I think Vista's still too green for me to suggest using it. There are certainly annoying aspects to the OS, such as the beyond-crappy defragmenter, the obnoxious UAC, the DRM crap, and the fact that "Games For Windows" (Vista) games are just as unstable as older made-for-XP games. As much as I like the look of the Vista Aero interface, I turned it off to try to eek out some performance from the low-end games I'm trying to get running on this PC. I just built this Shuttle earlier this year with known Vista-compliant hardware, so I don't understand why it's so freakin' unstable. Vista by itself blue-screens once an hour. :P
There are a lot of really, yet superficially, cool things about Vista. I'm not expecting MS to drop the bag on Vista like they did WinME (which deserved it). I'm betting a lot instability will be corrected through service packs and improved HW drivers from the HW manufacturers.
I don't expect MS to care about our complaints about the DRM and licensing issues, because they're trying to make a profit and I'm sure are also getting pressure from the RIAA and MPAA. Unfortunately, I'm seeing more products use the activation method of XP & Vista, which is frustrating from an end-user's standpoint.
Yay for the 21st century.
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Date: 2007-10-02 02:28 pm (UTC)Vista will eventually work well and, yes, maybe it needed more work. More than anything, I think the thing that's hurting its sales figures is the fact that XP works so damned well that there's no need to upgrade. Until it becomes a Win98-like travesty of irritation and inability to do anything useful, people will keep using it. There's no reason not to, really.
They can harp on Linux and Mac all they want, but neither of those systems do the things many people want to do with their PC these days: play games. And, from everything I've seen, Macs don't work any better than anything else and are filled with annoying bugs to get anything to work properly.
Such is life. Vista will get better and one day we'll need it. I'm not sure if that'll be before the next OS, though.
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Date: 2007-10-03 12:06 am (UTC)Microsoft has really lost sight of what people want/need, but I don't think this OS is the end-all, be-all of their future.