Vista is a great OS. The media killed it. The media hates Microsoft.
As I am a mutant (MacPC), I think they both have strong points, which is why I use both.
I do not like Vista! It isn’t media hype, it is overloaded with jazzy looking features. I am not about appearance, I am about fast, efficient work. Never another Windows product again. This computer with any other OS would fly, with the bloated vista, it performs only satisfactorily, while I wait. My favorite Vista message:”____ not responding”. It can be email or my browser or any program. But WOW, it has really jazzy features. Grr. My other favorite was downloading a SP that left me unable to access the net, until I restored it.
Microsoft made a huge error with Vista in the compatibility department. I’m not talking about hardware compatibility but instead software compatibility. It was a huge problem for me. I ended up having to use VMWare to run Win2k virtual machines to run software programs that there are no replacements for.
Other than compatibility I’ve had very few problems with Vista. I can’t remember the last time the OS crashed.
Vista is okay if you turn off the stupid user account control and have upgraded to sp1. Works great for me.
No, DRM killed Vista and the media piled on. The first real assessment of Vista came from a Prof. Peter Gutman of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote an exceptionally long paper entitled: "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" He analyzed Vista with everything: medical software (images downgraded), to new $4000 Samsung monitors (no images at all). It was an extremely thorough and damning review. Microsoft tried to refute some of his points, and he simply updated his paper with new information and illustrations on Microsoft's inaccuracy. It was quite a war of words. But the damage was done. There was never any real refutation to his original claim: Vista disables functionality at a very high cost to business.
Vista was a steaming pile. The speed with which MSFT started on the Win7 effort, coupled with the marketing backstop of allowing users to down-rev to XP, shows that it wasn’t mere advertising and media that killed Vista.
The DRM crap is what killed Vista.
MSFT should take a page out of Jobs’ playbook and tell Hollywood to go pound sand. DRM of Hollywood’s crap is NOT the job of an OS, any OS.
I NB that Win7 can be down-rev’ed to XP as well now too. Shows quite the level of confidence by MSFT, eh?
Vista is not a sin far from it
It is probably best as a 64 bit OS but Microsoft didn't want to ruin its introduction so kept mum
That way (64 bit) you can lay 4, 6, 8 gb memory or more on it and it will sail
More and more you are seeing midlevel laptops and desktops with Vista-64 and 4gb on up of memory. These are common items at Best Buy, Dell, HP and the retail level in general
Windows 7 will accelerate this trend
I own PCs, I own them because they are what I am used to and because I could build my own in the early days and save money doing it, now I buy one cheap enough that I don't have to build them any longer, in fact I don't think I can build one as cheaply as I can buy one already built. The benefits of a Mac, if they even exist, don't out weight the price difference.
I have both also, but only use the PC for reading email or
googling when I’m downstairs and too lazy to go where my iMac is.