I bought some people I know a computer over Christmas with Vista Premium Home Edition. The thing came with 3GB of memory, and cost about $400. No problems whatever. It did everything it was supposed to do, did it quickly, and was nice to look at. The supposed changes to the interface, were minor at didn’t affect usability one iota.
I think this whole Vista fiasco thing is a bunch of FUD and doesn’t reflect what’s really going on. Sure if you install it on a legacy machine, or a new machine with not enough memory, or inadequate video card, it probably will suck, but on a modern, full featured piece of hardware, it’s fine. Don’t believe everything you read. And believe me, I’m not some MS fanboy - quite the opposite.
No problems whatever...
I think this whole Vista fiasco thing is a bunch of FUD and doesn’t reflect what’s really going on...
Could be. Or possibly, just possibly mind you, it might have just a tiny bit to do with the fact that Vista was released a full two years ago and has had a bunch of development, polishing and a Service Pack dropped into it by Microsoft by the time you bought it in late 2008.
Or maybe all the complaints about Vista during its first year of release from users, the tech media, IT departments, game developers, Intel, etc was just people jealous of Bill Gates.
Who knows?