So I knew Vista was bad, but this bad?

There's still hope for us yet

(Credit: Bruce Finlayson)

I came across this picture over at the Seattle PI and considering I've spoken about the need to abandon Vista and keep XP alive, I thought it was an appropriate time to show you a picture taken by Bruce Finlayson of Seattle. It was taken in a small town outside of Seattle. Hm, appropriate placement, eh?

Thanks, Bruce!

[JCPayne]

LOL Don why are you shocked??? M$ loves to rush products to market even when they aren't finished....

[john55440]

More silly anti-Vista hysteria.

VistaSP1 is here.

WinXP will soon be history.

Get over it.

[scythie]

lol fanboy.

WinXP will soon be history? Are you kidding? They haven't even released SP3 yet.

[aztec92154]

I have no compelling reason to upgrade to Vista.

[Xandergrampy]

I thought I didn't either, but after getting the correct amount of ram. 2 gb. min, for smooth operation and turning off some of the special effects and not using the aero theme, I've had less problems with this operating system than any other I've used. It's more stable than XP, but it's a lot more resistant to internet threats.

George

[russkeller]

It's not hysteria, Vista is Just Buggy Bloatware. It's pretty but it's also broken (ubuntu is prettier and works better btw.)

[irdac]

I am congratulating myself on the wisdom of buying my replacement laptop while they came with Win XP installed.

[gripstock]

I purchased Vista Ultimate about one month after it's release. It was about a two week struggle to fix several compatibility issues but I got it all working. Most computer users DO NOT have the patience or desire to endure the headaches you will encounter when making such a major change in their daily computer use. I work as a contractor on a government installation and as slow as the government is to change I look foir it to be years before they will upgrade us to Vista.... heck we are still on Internet Explorer 6.x and you can loose you job if the IT's find you upgraded to IE 7.0 or installed Firefox.

[TheBigOldDog]

It's not just that Vista wasn't ready or buggy, it's that it was poorly designed to begin with. It requires high end HW and runs slower than XP on the same box. That is a non-starter right there. It's like 2 cars with different interiors having radically different HP and gas mileage.

Next is the abomination of UAC. Not only does it slow down the computer by watching everything deciding when to intervene, it confuses and scare average people and simply annoys power users. M$FT's idea of security has always been to lock down a computer to the point where it is unusable. Remember when they pushed out an Outlook Express update that basically prevented attachments and stopped loading graphics in the emails? *** do they think people use computers for?

Then, in their pure idiotic greed they put Vista out in multiple forms at very high prices so people are completely confused.

With this and other issues like device incompatibility, the decision to either stick with XP or even downgrade, is a no brainer for most people.

M$FT bought DOS and developed Win 3.1-XP and these knuckleheads running the show today are just living off the inheritance.

[albant77]

I installed Vista 64 in a computer with MSI mobo, 64 bit amd processor. The surprise came when I could not get my Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI card to be seen by windows. I have two 73 gb. Scsi HDD and it is not even thinkable to stop using them. After weeks of searching for drives, I gave up and went back in a rush to XP. XP may not be best OS ever, but at least it works. I miss Windows 200 stability but M$ stopped giving support. As usual VILE Gates is after our pockets.

[jgross]

I own a MacBook. I run OS X always except when I have to use my firms proprietary software. Then I use Parallels and XP.
Interestingly, my Mac runs faster and installs (windows) software updates quicker and with no headaches, then my co-workers PC's.
Macs are replacing more and more computers in my office. Everyone has the same reaction: "Why did I wait so long?" It's like watching kids open their holiday presents.

[ricreitz]

I have used XP on two previous computers and now have Vista on my new one. Other than being slow working with jpegs I think vista is fine for a pc upgrade. I also own a Mac G5 and I do 99 percent of my media work there anyway.

[lubricantes1]

For "Vile" Gates and his boys... it's not to improve... is to get the more out of our pockets!!!!

[millards]

I've got two new pc;s with Vista installed and I personally think the BAD Vista line is crap. What Microsoft needs to do is move ahead, most of the problems come from people trying to use older hardware and software. As far as UAC usage goes, it's really not a big problem. Certainly no worse than XP or 98, were when they first arrived.

[x.killeddestiny.x]

Vista really isn't that bad, infact the only things wrong with it are driver problems and gaming problems other than that it's a pretty good OS and in my expirience it's great. However XP works great on my Dell and I wont upgrade till I feel I need a new computer.

[joblolboj]

I switched from Windows to Ubuntu two years ago and haven't looked back. All my machines, both desktop and laptops now run Ubuntu. I have absolutely NO interest in Micro$oft's latest excuse for an operating system. I really resent having to pay the Micro$oft tax on any machine that I buy at retail when all I am going to do is wipe the Micro$oft OS and install Ubuntu even before the first boot.

[sray001]

I'm always amazed at the venom unleashed at MS for just having incredible business sense. Sure, they took advantage and abused their position, just like you, Apple, and any Linux company would if they thought they could get away with it.

As an IT professional with over 22 years experience, when IBM was considered the evil empire, you guys really need to lighten up and watch for the company that will outpace MS so you can buy stock. Maybe that will help you quit your whining.

I've got Vista Home Premium Upgrade and use it as a Media Center PC based on the October 2006 Maximum PC issue for building a MCPC. After four months of simultaneously recording shows, watching or ripping DVDs to the video jukebox drive I added, and surfing the Net, I've had maybe three hiccups that caused me to reboot it unexpectedly and those were in the first month while I was working out the bugs. Yes, UAC is annoying but I'm not using this machine as my end all be all computer.

My point is that I see Vista as software and not a political or religious experience. It does what I want so I can get on with my life. That's why MS still has the market share it does.


'Nuff said.

[ttoolan]

Heck our IT department just upgraded to XP. Do you mean to tell me there's another operating system out there?

Government worker

[sendmelies]

Geez. Remember Windows ME?