Well for the sake of this thread, can you detail ONE of the problems.
I’ve been trying to get some concrete answer on what is so Bad about Vista, and it seems that the people taking the most trash cant seem to explain what is wrong with it.
One of the problems I had that exhausted my patience was a CAD program that I have used for two years with XP Media Center. It is by a company that is no longer in business. I have the product key to the program and previously when I upgraded my computer that also ran XP I was able to reinstall it and it worked fine.
However, when I attempt to install this program onto my new computer using Vista it goes through the install process, asks for the key and nearly completes installation before it flashes a message ‘Unable to copy ickernel.dll’. I went through the HP warranty support people and they couldn’t do a thing except waste my time. They finally shunted me over to Microsoft who opened a case went through all kinds of unnecessary checks, had me attempt reinstallation several times and then of course tried to get me to go to the CAD company or a find a third party service. They offered to bump me to a premium service that would cost me. So my choices were to continue the frustration with Vista, buy a new CAD program costing thousands of dollars or get rid of Vista and install XP.
Other problems are that HP has their own partition and seems to want to control what I do on my computer. I asked the seller if I could get rid of the HP crap but he said deleting their partition would cause Vista to malfunction. I said HP is making me angry and they said all the major brands are doing the same with Vista.
Then there is all the Security hangups. Everytime I want to do something it seems as if some program is monitoring me and interrupting. I have had great experience on my XP computer with my security software, never had a problem and have always had software that quietly traps unwanted spyware and malware and lets me keep working and decide when I want to remove or quarantine the bad stuff.
Microsoft and their computer mfg accomplices seem to want to create a ‘nanny state’ on my computer and treat me as if I don’t know jack. I hate it because it disrupts my work, my train of thought.
There are many other issues that I just don’t have the time to detail.
There have been studies (I can't cite them for you, but I'm sure you could do a search and find them on the web), that show that with identical hardware (and I'm talking a up-to-date, fast processor and 1024 or greater in ram), that the machine with Vista will run much slower than the machine with XP. We have Vista on a laptop and XP on two desktops. The Vista machine, again, has plenty of processing power and ram, and I cleared it of factory-supplied bloatware, but it still boots up very slowly, much slower than my last laptop (with an almost identical processor and ram) with XP, and appears to move about slower. So my experience has been the same as the tests.
We have not personally had any other problems with the Vista laptop, but we only use it for travel and occasional use in the kitchen. But for me, A DROP IN SPEED is enough of a reason alone, even aside from the many reported problems, that I do not want any other machine with Vista on it. I am going to assume that probably the main reason Vista boots and runs slower is all the fancy graphics, and see-thru bells and whistles.
I don't want to give up speed and simplicity of computing for "woo-woo" eye candy. Somehow, I think since the release of Visduh, that M-soft is finding out the hard way that there are many in the public who have that same point of view as I do about their bloatware offering.
More than a dozen such problems were detailed...and linked...in the article for this thread, so one has to presume that you haven't read it. You should. It's at the top of your screen.
What the article *didn't* tell you was that Vista isn't backwards compatible.
Software like Peachtree Accounting/ACT will run on Windows 98, NT, 2000, and XP, but won't run on Vista.
The article does point out that Vista is substantially slower than XP (and XP itself is 30% slower than Windows 2000), as well as that Vista doesn't support most hardware peripherals like printers and video cards that are compatible with Windows 2000 and XP.
But even ignoring all of the above, Vista crashes constantly and ignores owner commands like CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Frankly, ignoring owner commands is a fatal mistake for machines. Software should be discarded and hardware that do their own things rather than what their owner desires should be shot with large caliber ammunition.