Full featured?
More like full of buggs persistently for a long time. And that's not counting security flaws.
I can't think of a single year (out of what--10+?) as a faithful Microslop customer when I haven't been exasprated to the max every few weeks to every few months.
Most of the time there has been no viable solution and certainly not one within any reasonable cost constraints. Usually I just had to give up and come up with some convoluted enormously time wasting work around on my own.
Oh, when I've been able to spring for their expensive tech help--it's usually been competent and helpful. Though the India accent thing at a rapid fire rate on a pooor phone connection bout did me in once.
And their compulsion to gum up the works of 3rd party software vendors is really infuriating, morally outrageous, actually.
I have no need to destroy Microslop. I just want them to clean up their act. Give the customer more of a fair value and better support for their money.
They could have a LOT better automated support than they do. a LOT better.
No excuse for not having it, imho.
The only OS of Microsofts I would consider a failure would be WinME. Otherwise the only errors I have had are errors caused by me and 99% of the time I am able to fix it w/o doing much if anything to my OS.
Microsoft is cheap when compared to Apple, which if you want to go Apple you simply cant just pop in an OS and reformat your HDD you have to buy the whole system, hey and lets not forget if there is an update you have to pay for it, not with Windows you just download the SP1's or 2's.Heck to upgrade to Win95 when it came out was $109, same with Win98, but Vista Basic is only $99 and the only thing you sacrifice is eyecandy and MCE, wich was a seperate more expensive version for XP.
Vista itself is not buggy, not in the least, You will hear stories about compatibility's but thats an issue with hardware manufacturers not updating there drivers.
If you had to upgrade your hardware to use a new OS chances are you would have had to in order to use any program you planned on using in the future anyways, so an upgrade is/was a waist of money for you if you want to look at it that way.
I could go on but I have to get up early.