Why haven’t I experienced these alleged problems?”
You aren’t running proprietary corporate software developed prior to Vista.
You aren’t attempting to use hardware developed prior to Vista.
And you aren’t doing anything processor-intensive-enough to notice the Vista speed slowdown.
(nor would I believe you if you tried to claim otherwise)
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Nice strawman. I never claimed otherwise. In fact, I said we should just get rid of the older equipment and modernize right in my first post. The hardware is dirt cheap anyway.
I just think these cheap shots at Microsoft are contemptible. The average user (that’s most of us) will have absolutely no difficulty with Vista. If the other software manufacturers don’t want to update their products, that’s their problem. And there is no reason under to sun not to use current hardware. Any four year old machine is obsolete anyway.
What you aren’t comprehending is that American *companies* (not software firms, but brick and mortar sell-you-a-car, make-your-pipe, mill-your-paper companies) have all written in-house software to run their businesses.
Vista can’t run most of that software, even though XP can.
These companies don’t go rewriting their in-house software every time a new OS comes out. That would cost *money* to deliver the same functionality, a very bad use of corporate resources.
Likewise, they aren’t going to replace all of their PC’s every 4 years. Heck, they’ve got to keep the old PC’s around just to run XP and their in-house software, now.
You are living in a different world. For you, it might just be one PC to swap out every 4 years...but to a company, it’s thousands of PC’s and thousands of employees who have to be trained and scores of system administrators who have to deal with the old, and new, and the networking interfacing of old and new PC’s and OS’s...which is to say, the less changed, the better the company runs (for less money and less downtime in swapping out machines, too).