Joe in CASep 29th, 2007 - 03:06:32

That is one nasty business tactic. Making it so everyone HAS to buy your more expensive piece of trash program??? Vista is SO full of bugs. Most everyone I talk to tell me that they are NOT happy with it. I don't want to have to spend 300 bucks an a program that SUCKS, when XP is working just GREAT. WHAT THE HELL.

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Scott in UKSep 29th, 2007 - 11:10:22

I fully agree with Joe from CA. I purchased a HP laptop that came pre-installed with Vista Home Professional, and battled with it for 3 months. During that time, I had to re-install Vista 3 times (along with all my applications). I prefer XP - it's mature, stable, works well, and runs a lot faster on my laptop.

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devySep 30th, 2007 - 07:10:32

During your 3 months using vista home 'professional' you didnt notice that its not called vista home professional? it Home Premium.

There are a lot of bugs with vista, but anyone that knows anything about IT knows not to buy an OS within the first 6-12 months, thats more or less considered to be an extended beta phase... It doesnt matter who the vendor is, MS is just an easy target.

Apple have problems on their initial releases, Apple fans will claim that there were no where near the amount of problems with osx as with vista and to an extent thats correct, but I can install vista on my dell laptop, home built pc, Old pc from 4 years ago (granted it will be slow) I can even install it on my 1999 1ghz AMD thunderbird system... OSX on the otherhand... well I can install it on.. an Apple... and even then if I have a G4/5 CPU then I need to use a different version of the OS as if I have the new iMac...
Apple only have to support a very limited hardware base (not counting peripherals) - and you have to remember that apples old apps only work on osx because osx has virtulisation built in and runs os9 in the background.... you can do that with vista as well if you want... but its a pretty flakey solution.

I know that this article wast meant to be bashing MS... or crying the virtues of apple... but it looked like it was going that way so I thought Id get in there first...

PS, Im bying an iBook Pro soon... but only because... you guessed it... I can install vista on that too now... OSX wont even think about my dell...
Stick that up your A**e Jobs.

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techSep 30th, 2007 - 14:35:45

Oneday Gaiacomm International will own Microsoft and stop them from domination control.

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JamesSep 30th, 2007 - 16:41:25

What the chuff is an iBook Pro?

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strawberiesSep 30th, 2007 - 17:13:11

Vista is an expensive pile of rubbish.

It is buggy. It is slow. It needs additional RAM (than what you required to run XP).

I have turned off a lot of the whistles and bells, but it still doesn't run too impressively.

And there are loads of other issues. The plugins and drivers that ran perfectly fine in XP, now often don't run in vita.

Thus most of my phothop plugins now don't work. And the top of the range digital camera that I bought a few years ago, now isn't recognized....due to there being no driver for it to run on Vista.

AVOID VISTA AT ALL COSTS.

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Phil MasonSep 30th, 2007 - 18:14:21

'Microsoft having sold in excess of 60 million licenses for Vista', all business machines have vista pre-installed,which are then rebuilt to XP - however MS still insist it has the biggest uptake of their new OS. They should publish figures that show the registed software. It will be far far lower than 60 million. It's the same as a local authority saying they have the safest roads in the county, but not telling you that the roads were closed for resurfacing whilst they took their survey.

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Lord SlayerzSep 30th, 2007 - 22:28:43

I installed Vista on my laptop.
Its now gone and good old reliable XP is back.
I had problem, after problem after problem.
Money well spent eh??.
Its sat here in the draw now going to waste.
Can I have my money back please PC World.
'Oh sorry mate its used' no refund pal.
Close the door on your way out please,
but step aside to let the next mug in first.
Thanks for the colonic Bill, I really appreciated it.
Been nice if you'd at least of lubed me up and put some
latex gloves on first though.

Lord Bitter and Twisted.

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JohnSep 30th, 2007 - 23:10:54

Having purchased a new computer with windows vista two weeks down the line about 6 software packages were incompatible, the broadband modem would not work would need replacement so I finally formated the disk and loaded xp it all works fine now and a whole lot faster.

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An unnecessary step up for most usersOct 1st, 2007 - 06:48:29

Win XP with Office 2003 is doing everything that the average user could want, and being an established O/S, the plug-ins and device interfaces work.

I can understand why, for business reasons, MSFT wants to push everyone into an upgrade. At this point, even business no longer wants to be the 'bleeding edge', and does not want to spend more for RAM to make things run under Vista that run fine under XP.

On top of which, the loss of the usual menus and toolbars in Office 2007 increase discomfort and learning curve, and a lot of power users have created their own toolbars and menus for regular use.

There's a third-party provider who claims to have replacements for the Office 2003 Menus and Toolbar functionality:

www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/

Writeup: blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=116

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