[ShadowAce]

[Abcdefg]

IBGE (In before Golden Eagle)!

[Cementjungle]

I wonder what Bill Gates runs on his PC, or if he has a staff of 20 techies who make sure his works fine.

[John Jorsett]

I just got a laptop with Vista. I find the Vista user interface a pain in the patoot, and I can’t find drivers for some of my old hardware items I want to run with it. I’m considering wiping Vista and installing XP Pro instead.

[Polybius]

Ever since the problems with Vista came to light, I have been refusing to accept and download the "Windows Updates" that Microsoft sends to registered XP users.

Am I being too paranoid or are others doing the same?

[DancesWithCats]

SO glad that I bought my Dell B4 this Vista piece of garbage! I’ll stick with Windows XP, thank you very much. Maybe in a couple of years when they’ve worked out all the bugs with the thing I’ll think about getting a new PC. For now, I’m happy. Well, maybe not delirious but it’ll do ...

[martin_fierro]

Pirillo is geekier than the average user.

And how. This was a schmuck even for TechTV's low standards.

[papasmurf]

Neither Win (name your flavor here) nor Linux is perfect. BUT, Ubuntu’s imperfections bother me a lot less than Window’s imperfections.

Guess which I find myself using most often? Why, Linux, of course!:)

[amigatec]

I am proud to announce that this household is Microsoft free!! I updated the wife's’ PC to Mandriva Linux 2007 last night.

I feel much better already!!!

[PAR35]

to what they see as arbitrary decisions on Microsoft's part to hide common settings and features.

The mouse clicks to turn it off are particularly well hidden.

[Still Thinking]

But it may also be the case that Vista's biggest benefits are ones that cause average PC users' eyes to glaze over, like improved security.

Well, sorta. In reality, the very DEFINITION of what is or is not a benefit is up to the customers, who are doing the right thing by voting with their dollars and buying or not as they see fit.

It reminds me of when the greenie weenies were attacking Staples or Office Depot or someone because they weren't selling enough office products with recycled content, even though the recycled stuff was on the shelves. The reds, er, ah, greens seem to think it's the sellers job to force us to buy what they want to sell, when in reality it's our job to tell them what we want to buy and their job to make it available.

I could almost see the greenies complaining if the stores failed to make the recycled stuff available for those who wanted to buy it, although even then it should be up to the store to decide if the market is big enough to be worth serving. At least then they'd be agitating for more choice and more power for the consumer, rather than for the sellers to take choice and power away from unrelated third party customers who don't share the greenies beliefs.