Is Vista Any Good

[GLASS44]

I keep reading that there are problems with Vista and that a recent survey suggests that 50% of people buying new machines are specifically asking for XP and insisting that Vista is NOT used.

What exactly are the problems with Vista? It certainly doesn't seem like a step forward if people don't want it.

Anyone know the truth?

[jholland1964]

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/ar...indows-xp.aspx

[TurcoLoco]

I loved it when he stated that he upgraded his Vista machine to Windows XP!

lol

[Precidia]

I have been running vista ultimate for about 5 months now, i really like it. The thing i have found with vista is if you dont have pretty up to date hardware, stay away from it. Its just gonna be slow and have support issues, like the htpc in my sig. If i put vista on it, it would be a total dog though it does meet their "minimum" needs. So far I am very happy with vista and do say if you have the horsepower to push it, run it. The thing with most retail boxes is there is a ton of bloat ware (probably XP holdovers that cause instability in vista) and that unless you drop some serious coin your getting cut short in some area of a retail pc. Vista on 1 gig of ram was a bit of a dog, 2 gigs it got better and the 3 i have now it started to really open up. I have also noticed you really need a decent graphics card to run vista. Alot of retail machines run integrated video and vista doesnt like that to well. Sorry about the long rant but its 5:37 am and im tired and saw this. Figured i would throw out my opinion on the whole mess.

[ImaginaryGenius]

Is the problem that they just can't update all the avaliable software for Vista Fast enough and that most programs are compatible? whats really the problem?

[Precidia]

i would say that is part of the problem