[library user]

For the last year or so, 99.9% of the problems associated with Vista have been due to misinformation or outdated public perception.

B i n g o !

[Dead Corpse]

I'm a sys admin. Previously, I was in processor development for AMD, etc.... only about 15 years in the biz, is that e'nuff cred?

Vista is bad. Not just misinfo. It's threading is iffy, the kernel support isn't there, info and programming guides given out to partners and devs is error prone, feature integration makes simple admin tasks a nightmare. It was bad from the Longhorn Alpha overlay to the inadequately tested RC. It still wasn't passing our WHQL testing at AMD when they launched.

And that's just my short list.

We only have two machines here at my current job that are running Vista. Both are having issues with printing, network apps, interoperability with other app suites, and both had to be re-loaded when MS pushed out that patch that killed AMD based machines by overwriting the wrong *.sys file.

Plus, the new desktop looks like it was designed by someone on prozac.

[devere]

“outdated public perception”

You mean Microsoft is entitled to their reputation back after selling us a broken operating system? That’s not the way the world works. They haven’t yet even tried to pay for their mistake in any fashion.