[nonliberal]

Mac OSX Leopard has Vista (and XP) blown out of the water. Great system!

[Loud Mime]

Microsoft's more recent, glacial development cycles ..

I like that line.

Vista is pretty and has some great features, but XP is much faster than Vista on my computer. I get the feeling that the "increased security" provided was for Microsoft's benefit more than the users.

My suggestion to MS: Focus on the consumer, not yourselves.

[ShadowAce]

[RayChuang88]

I think what we’ll see in Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (which will likely come out in 2009) is a number of changes in the core OS code to reduce the “footprint” of the OS itself without changing the functionality. After all, Windows XP Service Pack 2 was more than just bug fixes and security updates—it also changed some OS core code to improve stability.

[Turbopilot]

If true, that sucks. I was hoping to skip Vista altogether and go straight from XP to Win7. Although it might be worth it if MS starts from scratch - design an all-new OS from the ground up, with backwards compatibility only via virtualization.

[webschooner]

M-soft is rapidly losing market share to Linux and Mac, due to the pantload known as Visduh, and the trend will continue, and Microslop knows it. And most of those customers who go to other OS's, they will never get back (and M-soft knows that too)

Thus, they are trying to diversify by buying Yahoo.

[RichardW]

Am I the only user with three computers installed with Vista who loves it? I’ve had not a single lock-up in three months and it works perfectly. What’s not to like? What’s the beef?

I know two of the actual beta testers and I respect their judgment. I haven’t seen anything here except a bunch of Microsoft bashing but nothing that shows any particular problems. Why haven’t I experienced these alleged problems?

[cowboyway]

Windows 7, Microsoft's follow-up to the overwhelmingly hated Windows Vista, probably won't arrive in 2009 as was previously rumored.

[Cold Heat]

What the 'ell is wrong with Vista? I don't get this .....

I have been using it for a year, and it's great and getting better. Any and all problems that came up were third party apps. They either refused to write new language in their progs, or were late.

All these apps seem to have relationships with Apple or are in their pocket.

The one remaining app that I have is Adobe.

Vista will take the PC into the future. It will soon leave XP behind. There is no need for 7. IMO.

[Richard Kimball]

As irritated as I got with MS, NT was pretty stable and I never got a virus. Vista has a lot of people asking "Can these guys write software anymore?" MS has always had a tendency to throw the kitchen sink into programs and to h*ll with what it does to system load, but Vista reached the point of crashing under it's own weight, and it was years late to the market.

NT was probably the best core OS MS ever did. However, the original version was released in 1993 or so.

Windows 7 sounds like they've pulled out the copiers at Redmond again. A couple of the supposed leaked features are hypervisors (the ability to run multiple operating systems in virtual machines), and "Touch" features, which are basically the iPhone features, but they're going to do it on a PC. Gates is also talking about being able to store your documents and preferences online and pull them up on another computer. This part sounds kind of goofy to me. I already do all that stuff with my .Mac account, and PC users can do it with Google calendar and apps.