Comments on: The 10 things you may complain about (and five you may not)

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[tuneslover]

Love Vista! Runs great on my PC. Just have to install SP1 and need 2GB+ ram & better AGP :D

Facebook: spammy apps don't disturbe me though many person install unnecessary apps (i think they dunno what is it)

[starrpoint]

I hated Vista at first. It was released too soon. Now not so bad, and some of the things I do like.

Major problem is with most programs, the programer tries to tell you how to use it and the documentation is missing.

But that is not just Microsoft. All companies have dumped the documentation.

[jacobshm]

Snarky, much? I love it Rafe. Who said CNET is old school?

[TroyJMorris]

I don't know how much longer Apple will remain a "sacred cow" after the upgrade issue a few weeks ago. I'd love for folks to realize that they're not the apex of OS and just as smarmy as MSFT, they just went broke for a while.

[compudoc318]

I'm so tired about hearing how bad vista is. Im in I.T. and I own my own computer repair company specializing in virus removal. I do 3-4 virus jobs a day, and guess what, not one infected vista machine yet! I've been using vista ult. and bus. for months now, and ult since it was new, and besides some driver issues in the beginning.....no problems!!!! Matter of fact, when i load vista on my machine now, it finds every driver for me, xp still needs me to load drivers. Vista is fine, everyone is just on a bandwagon about how much they hate it. By the way, I have a new mac as well, and that os is no better than Vista, even my certified mac tech says that!! If you are in I.T. and you still cant use vista, go back to school, or go work at mcdonalds!!!!!

[rkinne01]

I couldn't agree more! I'm no IT professional but I have NO problems with Vista at all. I've helped a few people out with Vista, most of the things they complain about are simple to solve if they'd take a minute to look into it.

[gnesterenko]

THANK you. I've been using Vista since the 2nd beta when they released it free for a 6 month license and even THEN it worked beautifully after proper drivers were installed. I'm sure 90% of the complainers out there tried to put it on an outdated machine and the fact of the matter is that it?s a next generation OS that requires solid hardware that was created around the same time Vista was.. Not 2 years before that, I'd even say not 6 months before that. Been running the final release non stop - I mean my computer is never turned off, sleep yes, off never - and have yet to experience a single crash or freeze or lockup or any issue with any spy-ware, mal-ware or virus.


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[Static-X-Machina]

As far as home environment goes, yes I'm sure vista works just fine.
About as well as for some that win98SE works as well for them too.
In a corporate IT environment running some pretty proprietary software without the vista ready logo (and you can ask anyone) trying to migrate from XP SP2 to vista and RUNNING said software could be a "POTENTIAL" nightmare. In fact it could have the potential of saaaaaay catastrophic failure of said company?
Tell me mister IT "PRO", what school would I go to for that?
Seems from the way you talk I only have 3 choices: use vista and either A. pay someone to come help fix the mess vista created. B. Try to do it myself which will take a while to fix and by then I will probably be out of a job and working at mcdonalds anyway.
OR we have the smart way: leave XP on the machines.
How does the saying go? If it isn't broke don't repair it?

In my "opinion" XP home is just fine for user end. IF you're smart about what you do with it. A couple of FREE softwares will protect you just fine.
AVG antivirus
Comodo firewall
Auslogic Disk Defrag
Auslogic Reg Defrag
Microsoft update
If you know what you are doing you should have no problem. I've run XP SP2 for over 2 years now without a slowdown and without an infection. the occasional cookie here and there, yes. Trojans? Viruses? Never seen one get on it.

For me other than an increase in the minimum RAM and HDD size requirements vista is no great deal better than XPSP2.

[mclovintonite]

Thank you! Everyone always says how great Macs are and how terrible PCs are and I am sick of it! People don't realize that not everything will run on Macs and that EVERYTHING will run on Windows. Also, i bought a PC, and the Mac with the same Specs cost more than twice as much! It's because Apple wants a monopoly on computers that run Mac OS and that is wrong.

[vivekk00]

Thank Jebus I've found some one to validate my feelings about Linux. All of my programmer friends told me I have to ditch Microsoft and discover the eutopia that is open source. I had to hide in shadows and pretend to follow along when they all talked about the glory of Linux, when the truth was it was just way too complicated for my meager non-binary brain.

[jssshashi]

As Usual nobody cares about Yahoo.

[bozereng]

I totally agree!!!!

Poor ole Yahoo which is a terrific product but never gets any of the hype or the praise! It is my primary search engine and homepage....I only use Google if I absolutely have to.....

[geofffeldman]

Thank you for writing what has been in my mind the last 10 years. I had noticed that being anti-Microsoft seems to be almost a religion among hard core geeks and geek wanna-be's. I can remember when it was considered cool to use Netscape instead of the Internet Explorer. Maybe it is similar to how the artsy types insist that any foreign or independent movie has to be better than that "mindless Hollywood comercial crap". Nevermind that most of us watch movies to give our minds a break and just be entertained for 2 hours and that comercial success is attained by putting out a product that people are willing to pay for.

[njconcierge]

Noticed your piece as I was writing on 'Serge the Concierge' about my Adventures in 'Comcast' Land while moving.
I made a few suggestions for improvements
Find out what they are here http://www.sergetheconcierge.com/2008/04/adventures-in-c.html

Have a great day

Serge

[brianwolters]

Get off this hate Vista bandwagon. It isn't perfect but far, far from the turkey people make it out to be. I have it on three PC's at home and my main Vista box extends to my XBOX 360 making it a great Media Center. It has NEVER crashed on me.

[fudgie13]

Vista is good, BUT Vista w/ SP1 & SP2 is even better. Don't own comcast which is good news

[paoconnell]

Vista pre-SP1 with all upgrades/patches installed was good; with SP1 it's even better. The biggest problem with Vista on my Toshiba has been bad drivers from Intel that were eventually fixed.

My wife had more trouble with the last Mac OS X upgrade, which trashed some of her .Mac EMail for some reason.

[fudgie13]

XBox 360 may RIP....HAIL to PS3 for Blu-Ray

[chad633]

why is everyone always bashing vista? It has been flawless on my computer since day one. I've not had one single complaint about it. No blue screen of death, no program hangs or crashing. I had more problems with XP than vista. Apple is just for the elitists who want to feel good about paying way too much for their computer that can't keep up with a windows box. I hate facebook and all those dumb useless apps, myspace is way more friendlier just like vista. So take your apple and go to facebook and send a bunch of stupid apps to apple friends and quit bashing windows.

[helio9000]

Wow great post - every dang one of them is true. The groupthink in the blogosphere is actually pretty scary.

[anonymous x]

what is with this vista bashing?
I have vista and its a great OS

[georigin]

Yeah vista is better than os x!
and very true article!

[mediocrates--2008]

ROFL! Love it, Rafe!

So....is this the place where I can safely say there is no reason for the Mac to exist? I mean, sure, I understand the desire for an alternative to Windows, but jumping ship on one proprietary OS just to bed down with another (more expensive, less compatible) one is just nuts. Except perhaps that OS X is superior to Unix.....oh wait!

[danielszabo1981]

Best damn article on here in a long, long time.

[cwestwell]

This is one of the better posts I have seen on a major site in a long while. Vista is an excellent OS I forced myself to stop hating and run Business at work and Ultimate 64bit at home. Vista just forced a whole lot of people to upgrade or replace there cheap discount PC's. The most disturbing thing I find as a tech is that most of my fellow geeks are so fast to jump on the silly fringe bandwagons and leave all Microsoft products alone especially Vista and Office 2007 that they leave a void in the tech employment sector which is great for me but shows the general short sited vision of most techs. Microsoft has brought out a powerful list of new software and operating systems in 07-08 to much to learn in a short period of time. If anything we should praise Microsoft for helping to bring down the price of components such as RAM and Processors. If Microsoft had waited 6 months to push vista you could get RAM for 1/8 the price as at launch however without the higher requirements there might not have been as much of a demand and prices might not of fallen. There is a simple balance of who's pushing who in the technology sector sometimes the Hardware market out paces the software market and sometimes as with XP and now with Vista the major software developer out paces the common hardware. In time Vista haters will be left in the Dark similar to those who held on to NT4 and 98 and the will leave themselves behind the curve and jobless talking about the good old days when DOS was all you needed.

On the subject of Mac

I would put any of my PC's from the last 12 years against any of the best MAC offerings and wipe the floor with there pretty shinny locked out locked down single button mice bearing over priced pieces of eye candy any day. If anything the elite attitude of Mac's Image bugs me. Yes they work well and yes there pretty but don't hate on everybody else simply because they are the majority and can do more with there PC's.

Linux ah the geeks cream dream of goodness one of the ultimate golden cows of the online world. Linux is ok if you know what your doing linux is'nt great unless you dream in open source.

Firefox - This I love I'm Guilty it's the shiz. never had crashes never had slowness. it set the bar for IE years before it knew what was going on.

I think I have said to much all in all good post

[shellyle]

Google... yep - look what happened to the poor chaps at www.taadaam.com:
what's Google afraid of?