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What a nightmare. The kind of person/operating system that justifies the "No Firearms in the DMV"/"Don't keep a hammer near your laptop with Vista installed on it" rule. Copying photos from a USB flash drive to the hard drive took so long that I could have recreated them in MS Paint, pixel by pixel, more quickly and with less frustration. The one issue that I could not solve, or forgive, was one of the most fundamental issues for an operating system: file handling.Vista didn't like copying files across a network. My experience with Vista was so abominable that I swore never to give Microsoft another dime of my business, walked to the Apple store, and plunked down way to much money for a Macbook Pro. In fact, Vista took personal umbrage at being asked to transfer files across a network, and passive-agressively reduced the transfer rate down until it could be measured in bits per minute, instead of kB per second. If you've read the other reviews here, you probably already know how annoying Vista's access control messages are, and how it was incompatible with nearly everything, so I won't spend time railing about that. The problem wasn't just limited to network file copies, either.

I soon came to personify Vista as one of those toad-like elderly women behind the counter at the DMV who take perverse delight in watching people's impatience boil into homicidal rage. The kind of person/operating system that will let you get to almost the front of a two-hour line/95% complete file transfer and then wordlessly put up a "Next Window" sign/"File I/O error" message with just the hint of a malicious grin. Where else but in Vista will you see a dialog box with the words "0.2 of 4 Mb copied, 240 hours remaining". OSX has its issues, some of them serious, but OSX makes Vista look like Microsoft literally implemented the "1,000,000 monkeys with 1,000,000 copies of C++ will probably turn out a well-made operating system" rule, but decided to save money by giving about 200 monkeys 3 computers and one copy of Q-BASIC.

First impression upon instaling Vista is "I'M SUPER IMPRESSED". Worse comes to worse I'll just create a Virtual WinXP mode within the "Mac side" of my computer and access my old emails from there. I use an iMac with Bootcamp. I tread very cautiously into the world of Windows Vista. Those complaining about problems with Vista, me thinks that they might lack a bit of tech savvy and become easily frustrated (just saying' ya know). Right now I'm tackling the situation on how to transfer my Outlook Express mail backups that I performed throught ABF Outlook Backup, but I'm sure I'll find a solution to that.

Printer working fine now.

Smooth installation, smooth sailing.

My PC is running smoother and I even found the internet to be cruising at faster speeds.

Had waited until this date (08/30/08) to take "the plunge".

All in all, I'm like a kid in a toy store with my newly found friend Vista.

Of course, a slight learning curve having come from years, and years of WinXP, but even at that the "excitement of discovery" as I load software in.

a few surprises, no doubt, as I found that my printer CD-Driver disc would not load as it was configured for WinXP; BUT NO WORRIES, as Vista popped up a balloon that gave me the link to the HP website so I could download the latest Vista driver for my printer.

Vista, I'm lovin' you as much as I've come to love my Leopard OS on the "Mac side" of my computer.

Vista Business is a homerun.

At least do it good. What is Windows Vista. Windows Vista is slow with a whole bunch of annoying things that pop out at the most annoying tims. A faied Mac-wannabe. Honestly, I you're tryin to copy something. DO NOT buy it. I like XP much better.

The nice part is that you CAN decide.Fact: Are you a gamer. You may commence drolling on your poor ol' outdated XP box's keyboard. Windows Vista is version 6.0. Fact: For its entire life, the virus magnet that is known as Windows XP has been solely responsible for the onslaught of spyware, malware and waves of viruses. I wont even get into how cool Desktop Search is, SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, or the other many new features that make Vista MUCH faster than XP in many respects. You might be interested in knowing that Windows 7 is merely a re-packaging of Windows Vista - just like Windows XP was a re-packaging of Windows 2000 because 2000 didn't sell well (see for yourself at the command prompt - type "ver" and take note that Windows 2000 is Windows version 5.0 and Windows XP is version 5.1). As you read this on your XP box, I guarentee that you have spyware on your system. Not Unix.

Has everyone forgotten that today's hardware is anywhere from 4-10 times faster than than the hardware that was available when XP was first released. If you're just running Windows Defender, I guarentee you're LOADED with it and don't even know it - get better software immediately.Fact: Though complaints about Vista's UAC are many, the Internet is not filled with Vista users begging to be saved from viruses and spyware they can't recover from. Run a scan and see for yourself. Every time I get up from my Vista machines and sit down on my XP machines, it feels like I'm sitting down on a machine in "Safe Mode". Then XP came along, and we've been swimming in viruses and Malware ever since.

Vista is just the latest victim.I have absolutely no love affair with Microsoft, trust me. Prior to XP, Windows would see a problem virus come down the pike once in a while. I ignore the fact that Linux always takes much longer for apps to load up (and runs clunkier in general) and that both KDE and Gnome always seems to look/work a lot like the latest version of Windows. Do NOT believe all the knee-jerk garbage you're hearing about Vista, as 90% of it is being pulled out of thin air by people who obviously never even tried it. Not DOS.

All you XP gamers can sit in your own DX9 drool if you want to. It was Windows XP. Then, suddenly, they LOVED the older version and tried to cling to it. Fact: Windows Vista was in development a whole year before Windows XP was even released. Waiting for Windows 7 to come out in Q1 of 2010 (at the earliest without any of Microsoft's now legendary and predictable postponements). And that Vista runs at virtually the same speed as XP once booted up - only with tons of new features. Not Linux.

Read that last sentence again, and then look those things up. New operating systems are about new features, not "running faster" on the same hardware (anybody that knows anything about operating systems knows that new versions are NEVER faster than the previous version, no matter what operating system it is - just take a look at any Linux distro or new version of any Mac OS). Not only pathetic, but now very predictable. For me personally, Vista has been spoiling me rotten since SP1 came out. Vista was OK'd by both internal and external beta testers in addition to the usability test program, or it never would have been released. It's as easy as un-checking a checkbox in Control Panel (User Accounts).

Thanks to the freeware release of VDMSound, I am running old DOS games under Vista with full sound. Dig up all the screen shots of Windows 7 you can find on the internet - take note that the title is "Windows 7" but the version number is 6.1. So get used to Vista. You oughtta see Crysis with dual nVidias running SLI.Fact: Think you don't like Vista. C'mon, what do you honestly expect. Not Mac. In other words, STILL VISTA.

But it's time for an actual professional with a masters in programming and operating systems to set a few things straight. It's up to HARDWARE to make things run faster, not the OS. Then you already know that Direct3D (DirectX) 10 is Vista-only. Yup. And that XP absolutely crawled on our systems when it first came out and that we all complained about it. Some of the few remaining software products currently being described as "Non-Vista compatible" can be made to work under Vista if you do a little reading and tweaking.Fact: Before SP1 came out for XP, XP ran like crap and had tons of compatibility problems. Even loaded with antispy and antivirus software, WinXP STILL gets infested and slows to a blue-screening crawl. Everybody hated it, even the way it looks.

I have personally done usability testing at Microsoft 17 times now (I like to get my 2 cents in), and I know how this process works. Microsoft doesn't let anything out the door until all the usability testers (the general public that come to visit the Microsoft facility in Redmond, Wa) say they like it. Linux and Apple trolls scour the internet for chances to add negative reviews to an operating system they'v never even tried. Microsoft releases software BY CONSENSUS, and Vista is what the people themselves ASKED FOR. Note: This will drop Vista security down to the same "virus magnet/pants down" level as Windows XP, however, so you decide.

Everybody hated each of them until the next version of Windows came along. Your system is not fast enough to run Vista. The Vista users complaing of any viruses and spyware are the ones who turned UAC off or clicked right past the UAC warning prompts without evn reading them.Fact: OF COURSE Vista is going to be slightly slower than XP on the same machine - just like Windows XP was slower than Windows 2000, which was much slower than Windows NT4, etc. Vista makes XP feel old, limited, cumbersome and inadequate. Those poor souls are pretty much all XP users. Microsoft had been working feverishly on this OS for 6 years at the time of its release. Meanwhile, we Vista users are walking around in DX10 games that look like movies. This same negative "new Windows sucks" propaganda wave happened when Windows 2000 was released in 1999 (nobody wanted "NT") and again when XP was released in 2002 (incompatibility problems, verybody absolutely HATED that "Made by PlaySkool" interface).

Bet you forgot that.Fact: Turn UAC (User Access Control) off if you want Vista to behave like XP and not prompt you for confirmations. etc. I can run any Win32 program I want in Vista that I install, and as of SP1. I repeat - DOS games. Then there are the XP hypocrites who have been using XP for so long that they fear anything new.Hypocrytes you say. You have a choice of slipping into even more obsolescence with XP (which is just Windows 2000 with lipstick, a 9 year old product) or you can move forward with Vista and Win7.

Better yet, GET Vista, or you'll eventually be two Windows versions behind when 7 comes out - which won't be until 2010 (at the earliest), and then that version of Vista will be around for 5 years until the next version. I might even be able to run old 16 bit apps now, haven't tried that yet.

And that soon you will need a new OS to even be able to operate the dual quads already on the market and the dual octo-core systems right arounnd the corner. C'mon, people, get a grip and get kick that common sense glad into gear.Fact: Since SP1 came out, Vista runs GREAT.

Little id you know that nearly EVERY Microsoft product that comes out is extensively tested by a public usability testing program that is totally seperate from their beta testing program. The search functions of Vista alone remove all need for clicking through layers of start menus, even often allowing me to not have to touch the mouse - this alone makes XP feel like an antique.

This is the natural way things are SUPPOSED TO BE AS HARDWARE GETS FASTER AND FASTER. THEN GET FASTER HARDWARE LIKE YOU HAD TO DO FOR XP.

Vista's here to stay, folks. BTW: No, I do not work for Microsoft, and I have been a huge Linux fan since 1997 (SUSE Linux, to be exact, version 11 is fantastic).

Even though I'm aware that Microsoft and their PC manufacturer hostages always pull this trick, it still rankles when an expensive new business notebook is pretty much useless for basic word / email / spreadsheet programs with 1 gb of ram installed. I wouldn't have bought it voluntarily, but a few months ago I needed a new notebook and had a hard time finding what I wanted with XP installed on it. What I found is that the negative commentary about Vista is all too true; if anything, Vista's critics are too kind. I upgraded to 2 GB in order to make it usable. Maybe by SP3 the people at MS will have this thing straightened out, but of course by then they'll have moved on to their next OS nightmare, expecting all of us to come along too. What can you say for a new OS in which one of the most basic functions---Search---is literally unable to find files by their exact names.

Forgive me for clinging to the antiquated idea that this is the software designers' job, not mine. So I took a chance on one with Vista. Even with 2 GB I had to do a lot of streamlining, tuning, and tweaking to get Vista to run smoothly. I've never found one file on my notebook using Search. And although Vista's graphical interface is undeniably attractive (this explains my 2 stars), most notebooks don't come with the memory to run it. Thankfully there is a lot of information online showing how to do all of this, but it shouldn't be so necessary.I'm not sure why anyone would pay for Vista as an upgrade or stand alone OS installation if they have a choice.

What fools we all are.