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- MikeonTV, on 01/07/2008, -54/+280I would Digg this but Vistas UAC has disabled javascript for some reason.
- DangerCollie, on 01/07/2008, -42/+198I think what Vista will signify in the hindsight of IT history is the point where business and consumers got tired of upgrading for the sake of upgrading. There's no win in Vista for business. Just a lot of down time, expense and application migration headaches for no real bottom line value.
Vista is the billboard announcing MSFT's fall from greatness. - imacoder, on 01/07/2008, -49/+186I've got two installs....Ultimate and Home Professional....
Ultimate… has standard developer installation (vs2k5/sql2k5/eclipse). I don’t think this one has ever died over the last year. No BSODs but maybe a lock up on very few occasions which can be expected on a dev box.
Home Professional…similar install as above except for the dev environments are all of the ‘Express’ flavor as this the necessary environment to target the XBOX with XNA. This box uses Media Center to act as my tivo…almost never crashes…
Anyway I’ve been pleased with Vista. - AzleGamer, on 01/07/2008, -35/+170Holy *****; articles like this are annoying. Hell, while we're at it, lets beat some other dead horses.
Let's bash all those crazy Christians!
Go Linux!
Apple is the best, ever!
Vote Ron Paul!
Jesus, can we stop with the repetitious articles that say the same thing every ***** day over the same damn subjects? - theinept, on 01/07/2008, -57/+176Buried for the media's Vista-hating circle jerk. The only people that genuinely seem to hate Vista are in the media and they all seem to cite each other's contempt for the product as proof of the fact that it's bad. Look, Vista is bad because these guys say it is, and they say it is because this guy says it is, and that guy says it is because we say it is.
Snore. If I could make a product that failed 1/10th as miserably as Vista, I'd be sipping pina coladas in Mexico. - lukas88, on 01/07/2008, -12/+84Funny, people were saying the same thing about windows XP when it came out.
- inactive, on 01/07/2008, -17/+80Turn it off then
- BoneStamp, on 01/07/2008, -52/+115Just buy a mac if you want you OS to look pretty. I don't care, so I run XP.
- widgetmaker, on 01/07/2008, -7/+65Vista> the site's server.
mirror anyone? - theinept, on 01/07/2008, -23/+73Not only have I tried Vista, I use it on a daily basis because it is my primary operating system. Vista is the first Microsoft operating system I have ever installed that "just worked." I did not have to install a single device driver. I installed the OS and I was using it instantaneously. It recognized every piece of harware I owned except for one USB device, which is no modest feat since my computer is both packed full of random ***** and is of quite recent specification. The one device it didn't recognize was my Suunto T6 and Suunto has since released compatible 64-bit drivers.
Vista didn't change my life and I don't pop a stiffy every time I turn on my computer, but is a substantial upgrade from Win2K, which I had staunchly refused to upgrade to XP for the same reasons that most people don't want to upgrade from XP to Vista. I realize now that I was probably a bit of a fool for holding out for 5 years and I guess that XP users will similarly realize soon enough that holding out is foolish. It may not have all the promised features, but it's got a lot of neat stuff and it's not so pretentious as to assume you'd like to see all sorts of inane eye candy all the time.
Vista is, in its own right, a good operating system and it is ten times better than people give it credit for. The only serious flaw I have encountered is the copying problem and that has been resolved. - STKD, on 01/07/2008, -12/+57Exactly. Why blame a security feature when it's entirely your call whether it's on or off? Oh wait... mob mentality of course.
- Batiu-Drami, on 01/07/2008, -5/+49That was a joke, kids.
- inactive, on 01/07/2008, -20/+63I hated Vista, one thing I kept thinking was it would have been nice if it asked me 1 question, what is your experience with Windows: beginner or advanced. When an OS does not let me save files where I want and have to dig around for administrator functions, even though I am admin, there is a problem. I like to control my OS not have my OS control and decide for me.
- BillDoE, on 01/07/2008, -7/+48Actual quote from my boss. "Can you put Windows XP on it?"
- brentinkc, on 01/07/2008, -55/+90Are you sure you want to say something about Vista?
Are you sure you want to leave a comment in Digg?
Are you sure you've decided that Vista sucks?
Linux, here I come. - Andareed, on 01/07/2008, -8/+39Vista has a lot of new under-the-hood features and improvements; it's hardly just XP + a new UI.
- Ramble, on 01/07/2008, -25/+56I've been running Vista for over 1 year 4 months now and have yet to come across any problem. It's faster, more stable, more secure and has more features than XP. I would never ever switch back to XP.
- RetardoCrisp, on 01/07/2008, -8/+38Oh ya, I also LOVE the new Media Center and so does my 360.
- Lyanto, on 01/07/2008, -22/+52Or you could buy a similarly configured PC with Vista at a lower price.
It's annoying how in-fashion it is to hate on Vista. Decreased performance is unfortunate, but that's the price of progress. I wouldn't want to run XP on a Pentium II or Leopard on a G4. Any decent system within the last few years should be able to run it fine. I've tried it on a Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz with 1 GB of DDR memory and it worked great, considering that the processor is now several generations old and the memory was at the minimum requirement. - epiffffany, on 01/07/2008, -4/+31Some love to leave UAC enabled and verbosely complain about it.
- RetardoCrisp, on 01/07/2008, -12/+39I use Vista on both my laptop and my home PC. I find it runs as stable as XP SP2 IMO and thus why I switched. So many people ***** all over Vista. Sure it can hog ram but the SP1 beta I am running has fixed that leak issue and runs smooth with it. Otherwise it never crashes or hangs for me. I dig it.
- thebellmaster1x, on 01/07/2008, -13/+38I tried Vista, and I went back to XP. But I know that, in the future, I'm going to have to go back to Vista because they're going to stop supporting XP. Look, Vista's got a lot of problems, yeah, but it's the new version of Windows, so if you still use Windows, what're you going to do about it? (Pause for somebody's absolutely hilarious and completely original "switch to Linux" comment)
I'll get a new computer sometime in the future, and hopefully it'll be able to run Vista faster than my current one. I didn't have any crashing with Vista, but it was kinda slow and a bit headachey. And UAC, hell, I just turned it off. I'm able to tell what I should run and what I shouldn't.
Meh. - Zarokima, on 01/07/2008, -15/+39*****
- Phocion55, on 01/07/2008, -0/+24Don't talk to God that way!
- eeevildictator, on 01/07/2008, -3/+24Vista, Linux, XP, and Mac OS X: the reason I'm keeping my abacus.
- snapple112, on 01/07/2008, -3/+24MIRROR (fully working): http://mirror-wire.com/digg/microsplot/anything_sp ...
- salinemist, on 01/07/2008, -2/+22"Decreased performance is unfortunate, but that's the price of progress."
I hope you work in sales. - the_snitch, on 01/07/2008, -2/+21well said.
- davidcg, on 01/07/2008, -6/+25For me vista is more like xp sp3. But in any case im happy with it for the most part. It does a few things better than xp, but that is about it. completely turned off uac and the security alerts. gadgets seem completely useless and have those turned off. and dreamscene sounds like sh**. But I did build a new computer, so my opinion is biased. If i was on my older system i probably wouldn't be happy with vista (wouldn't run as well + compatibility problems most likely).
- STKD, on 01/07/2008, -6/+24Yet those people are the ones being advised to "switch to Linux" instead every single damn day on digg. Does anyone else see the reason that might be a really bad idea there..?
- digitalarcanum, on 01/07/2008, -2/+20as opposed to what? the rise of the brushed metal interface and over-priced blackbox hardware of Apple? Vista is AIDS we all know this. The mac fanboys really need to stop bleating over it. ME was worse than vista is, and look what happened: we were given w2k and XP. Two of the most solid windows operating systems. You get a ***** virus? antivirus is free. You have to update the OS? Leopard's firewall was a block of swiss cheese when it was released, OSX update are released on almost as regular a basis as windows updates are.
If all Apple can come up with to prove their operating system's superiority is a useless flame war (the stupid switch commercials, the useless mac vs. PC commercials) then they really have nothing. Give me a compelling reason to spend 1/3 to nearly double the price I would pay for a PC other than flaming PC software and users. - andrewcsayer, on 01/07/2008, -24/+41"Damn, should have got Linux...."
- renegadeafk, on 01/07/2008, -3/+20I game heavily on vista, games run fine full settings. COD 4
F.E.A.R
CS:S
TF2
HL2 EP2
HL2 EP1
HL2
Portal
DOOM 3
Bioshock
Stalker - doshindude, on 01/07/2008, -7/+23"Decreased performance is unfortunate, but that's the price of progress."
Are you retarded? or just a really desperate MS PR guy? - Mononuclear, on 01/07/2008, -5/+21I actually like Vista. The reason I went back to XP was hardware support. There is no vista driver for my wireless card and I was able to use the xp driver and it worked but I would frequently get BSOD's and random reboots because of the wireless. This is the same reason I don't use linux. My wireless card isn't supported and doesn't work with the ndiswrapper. I also had problems with my sound card which is old. Once I get a new wireless card I will use Vista.
- Phocion55, on 01/07/2008, -4/+20Can't expect?
What about Powershell?
What about WinFS?
These were all supposed to be included with Vista. Never happened.....which makes sense because they were actually COOL features. - causeitsme, on 01/07/2008, -4/+19I have 3 machines running Vista, a laptop with AMD dual core and 1.5 gig of ram (Home Premium), an HP pavillion AMD dual core and 3 gigs of ram(Home Premium), and an emachine desktop with single core 3.3 Ghz processor and 1.5 gigs of ram (Home Basic). All run great. I have had only minor problems with the laptop (Nvidia drivers mainly) and the microphone never worked. The other machines simply run, they do a great job. My daughter uses the emachine and goes to all the flash game sites and such which are notorious for spyware etc. but I've never had to clean it or do anything with it. I think Vista does a great job!
- me1501, on 01/07/2008, -3/+18I bet that half of the people that say vista sucks, have never, ever used it.
That being said, I prefer XP, but I can live with Vista. - Flamekebab, on 01/07/2008, -4/+19Meanwhile, back in the real world..
- keef06, on 01/07/2008, -11/+25Vista & Linux: the reason I'm keeping XP.
- syl1985, on 01/07/2008, -3/+17Well imacoder, you actually know what your doing - a lot of people don't and subsequently have problems.
- MioTheGreat, on 01/07/2008, -9/+23Linux isn't going to let you save files wherever you want. OSX won't either.
It was this kind of lax security behavior that led to massive problems with Windows. Good news! They fixed it.
You think that you are an advanced user, but your post tells me otherwise. You obviously don't understand basic operating system security priciples if you think that your OS should be giving all processes full privledges at all times. It's flat out stupid to expect it to, and even more idiotic to WANT it to. - chingy1788, on 01/07/2008, -21/+35Many people who hate vista just use it for like an hour on their P3 800MHz with 512MB RAM systems
I used linux for 2 years at uni, as well as experimenting at home, i don't like it, as everything i want to do i have to google on how to do it
I used XP for 7 years and its great
I used Vista for about a month, i think its good (after you get used to somethings that have been moved around), but my system is not fast enough to run it well (Athlon64 4000+, 1.5GB RAM)
I used macs for a while, mostly in primary school and early high school, i thought that was ok too, but i already have a system and dotn think i will get a mac soon, that and i don't have the money (uni student with no job), i might later on in life, and since its my money i would at least force my self to use it - Karmavs, on 01/07/2008, -9/+23Why? Because security features are important, and Vista's various 'protections' are as annoying as most of the things they try to protect people from. The fact that you can turn something off does not stop it from being badly implemented. Microsoft could have made it less intrusive, while still providing security. Why didn't they?
- zmjone2992, on 01/07/2008, -3/+16also you don't have a clue. XP with a new rendering engine? I think not.
- canUdi9it, on 01/07/2008, -10/+22Hasta la Vista, baby! It was definitely over-priced.
- luciferin, on 01/07/2008, -4/+15Windows XP doesn't support IPv6? Not that the this 11 year old technology is like to be implemented by your ISP, never mind required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Introduction - inactive, on 01/07/2008, -3/+14can't expect? rofl
they made people expect a lot of ***** - philhatesyou, on 01/07/2008, -3/+14You say decreased performance is the price of progress. With Vista, what progress have we gotten for the decrease in performance?
- tdowling, on 01/07/2008, -1/+12I remember people even saying that about Windows 95. Can you imagine wanting to hang onto Windows 3.1?
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