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"So far... So Wonderful!", I tread very cautiously into the world of Windows Vista... Had waited until this date (08/30/08) to take "the plunge"... I use an iMac with Bootcamp... First impression upon instaling Vista is "I'M SUPER IMPRESSED"... Smooth installation, smooth sailing... 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... Printer working fine now... 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... 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...

All in all, I'm like a kid in a toy store with my newly found friend Vista... My PC is running smoother and I even found the internet to be cruising at faster speeds... Vista, I'm lovin' you as much as I've come to love my Leopard OS on the "Mac side" of my computer... 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?)... Vista Business is a homerun!

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

"Accurate Review from a Masters-Level, 18-Year IT Professional", 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. Linux and Apple trolls scour the internet for chances to add negative reviews to an operating system they'v never even tried.

Then there are the XP hypocrites who have been using XP for so long that they fear anything new.

Hypocrytes you say? Yup. 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). Everybody hated each of them until the next version of Windows came along. Then, suddenly, they LOVED the older version and tried to cling to it. Not only pathetic, but now very predictable. Vista is just the latest victim.

I have absolutely no love affair with Microsoft, trust me. But it's time for an actual professional with a masters in programming and operating systems to set a few things straight.

Fact: Windows Vista was in development a whole year before Windows XP was even released. Microsoft had been working feverishly on this OS for 6 years at the time of its release. 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. 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. 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. 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 releases software BY CONSENSUS, and Vista is what the people themselves ASKED FOR.

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. Not Mac. Not Linux. Not DOS. Not Unix. It was Windows XP. Prior to XP, Windows would see a problem virus come down the pike once in a while. Then XP came along, and we've been swimming in viruses and Malware ever since. Even loaded with antispy and antivirus software, WinXP STILL gets infested and slows to a blue-screening crawl. As you read this on your XP box, I guarentee that you have spyware on your system. Run a scan and see for yourself. 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. Those poor souls are pretty much all XP users. 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. etc. This is the natural way things are SUPPOSED TO BE AS HARDWARE GETS FASTER AND FASTER. C'mon, what do you honestly expect? 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). It's up to HARDWARE to make things run faster, not the OS. Your system is not fast enough to run Vista? THEN GET FASTER HARDWARE LIKE YOU HAD TO DO FOR XP. 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? And that XP absolutely crawled on our systems when it first came out and that we all complained about it? And that Vista runs at virtually the same speed as XP once booted up - only with tons of new features? 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. I can run any Win32 program I want in Vista that I install, and as of SP1. I might even be able to run old 16 bit apps now, haven't tried that yet. Thanks to the freeware release of VDMSound, I am running old DOS games under Vista with full sound. I repeat - DOS games. 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. Everybody hated it, even the way it looks. 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. It's as easy as un-checking a checkbox in Control Panel (User Accounts). Note: This will drop Vista security down to the same "virus magnet/pants down" level as Windows XP, however, so you decide. The nice part is that you CAN decide.

Fact: Are you a gamer? Then you already know that Direct3D (DirectX) 10 is Vista-only. All you XP gamers can sit in your own DX9 drool if you want to. Meanwhile, we Vista users are walking around in DX10 games that look like movies. You oughtta see Crysis with dual nVidias running SLI.

Fact: Think you don't like Vista? Waiting for Windows 7 to come out in Q1 of 2010 (at the earliest without any of Microsoft's now legendary and predictable postponements)? 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). Windows Vista is version 6.0. 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. In other words, STILL VISTA. So get used to Vista. 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.

Vista's here to stay, folks. 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.

For me personally, Vista has been spoiling me rotten since SP1 came out. 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". Vista makes XP feel old, limited, cumbersome and inadequate. 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. 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. Read that last sentence again, and then look those things up. You may commence drolling on your poor ol' outdated XP box's keyboard.

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). 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.

"It Really Is That Bad", 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. So I took a chance on one with Vista. What I found is that the negative commentary about Vista is all too true; if anything, Vista's critics are too kind. 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? 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. I upgraded to 2 GB in order to make it usable. 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. Even with 2 GB I had to do a lot of streamlining, tuning, and tweaking to get Vista to run smoothly. Forgive me for clinging to the antiquated idea that this is the software designers' job, not mine. 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. 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 fools we all are.

"Like anyone would trust this", It's one thing to make the mistake of buying VISTA for home use but I work at controls and we would never upgrade our systems (WIN XP SP2) to VISTA....not untill it has the same passable reliability as XP. Why don't companies just switch to Apple Leopard and Leopard Server, it works.....it's easier to use, fully reliable and most of all as said before it works....there can be no better trump card than Leopard works, windows doesen't.

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"VISTA- Apple's most compelling secret weapon", Disgusting! After 5 years in the making, and promises of a super-duper search engine (that they couldn't get to work in the end), this is just creaky non-productive yet indcrediby expensive flash-in-the-pan stuff. I have to rely on Windows to use my business software. For starters, all office machines needed at least 2 GB RAM to run all those decorative see-through windows (who really cares). It's slow, buggy, already needs dozens of fixes and - hopefully - an SP1 release to address the worst. The annoying 'permissions' dialog requires you to sit in front of the computer, particularly if your office is networked; 'activation' is better called 'aggravation' - seems you are stealing their copyrights - and viruses and worms still infest the system because the browser (incrediby, really) was integrated into the operating system, thereby offering a direct pipeline into the kernel innards.

There is no instruction manual other than pages of denial of user rights. Customer service is "help yourself" via the (highly technical) Knowlege Base ... you've got to be a bit of a geek to start messing in the registry after digesting those pages of legalese that fully protect the company, but offer no warranties for the hapless consumer.

Enough said - Apple's Bootcamp now lets you install and run both Mac and Win operating systems (go back to XP/SP2!), elegantly executing the occasional Windows program such as Quicken or games. Leopard now is a de facto dual operating system product. Goodbye Bill Gates, hello Steve Jobs!


"No Problems here...", Configuration: Toshiba Satellite P100-9742 Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 120GB Hard drive, 512MB video RAM.

I got a free upgrade to Vista Business from Toshiba for this laptop, originally sold with XP. XP Pro worked great. I decided to do a clean install using upgrade media - you know the drill: boot from the DVD, install clean from scratch without specifying a product key, then do an "upgrade" the same way, this time specifying the key. The problem was, Toshiba didn't supply a bootable DVD. So, I had to borrow a 'normal' Vista distribution DVD (either full install or upgrade dvd will do), which then worked fine.

After installing my applications - all of which worked, including Nero 7 - I had a working Vista installation. There have been no lockups, slowdowns, blue screens or other problems in over 2 weeks.

I must admit that even though I'm happy with Vista, in that it runs without problems (so far) and has a bit more polish on the user interface, I find it hard to find any compelling reason to spend money on this upgrade. If I hadn't gotten the upgrade 'free' from Toshiba, I wouldn't have been moved to spend the extra dollars to do this upgrade. XP had worked flawlessly then, as does Vista now, but the difference isn't worth the cost in my opinion.

My 5-star rating is for the 'upgrade' experience and for the final performance of Vista, both of which are superior. The *value* of the upgrade is what I question.




"Candor", It's difficult for me to type this, even now after months of careful reflection. I'm still a relatively young man, and I don't have a family.

I purchased a new laptop from a Dell affiliate and Vista Home was pre-installed. After a few short days, I upgraded to the "Enterprise" edition. I can't say with certainty if the forthcoming review is an accurate statement on the "Home" edition as my experience was so limited.

The aforementioned events took place about 7 months ago, so I'm a bit foggy on my initial impression of the O.S. In addition, since I installed the O.S. my drinking has increased tenfold. Maybe the tendency was already there, but I would like to think something pushed me to the drink, rather than some predisposition. Specifically, I'm quite confident that "something" was Windows Vista.

Most reviews of the O.S. are bad, and I agree with every one of the sentiments and specific technical problems mentioned above. I'm not going to waste your time re-hashing the wireless internet connectivity failures, blue screen on reboot, routine tasks that now take many times longer than they did under XP, lack of NVidia compatibility, the fact that when you defrag it says something to the effect of "this will take several minutes to several hours" rather than give you a simple status bar, etc...What the reviews fail to communicate effectively, however, is the extreme and outrageous turmoil a man endeaurs when subjecting himself to the O.S.

When navigating the O.S., you are frequently subjected to a barrage of tedium that you have likely not experienced in many years, if at all. The reason is that rudimentary functions on which you have come to rely either a) no longer work or; b) work very poorly, and by that I mean, SLOWLY. It is not infrequent, and frankly, it is not limited to a few obscure functions that I feel could be corrected with a patch/update...Unfortunately, the entire kernel of the O.S. seems to be fundamentally flawed. I've heard that the O.S. is very resource demanding, which logically implies that furnishing it with a substantial rig should fix the problems...I disagree. First of all, my computer is top of the line. Secondly, the problems cited in all of these reviews are not indicative of hardware limitations...they're indicative of lousy programming. There's no reason why cutting and pasting has to be more tedious than threading a needle while drunk (I should know, sadly).

The bottom line is this: Previous to my experience with Vista, I had a relatively tranquil and traditional personal life. Since my experience, however, I am alone and drunk about 90% of the time. My friends and family have abandoned me because apparently I've "changed." For the most part they're right...I have changed. Maybe Vista was the one example of depravity that finally broke my spirit. I can't say that I'm unhappy overall, but I don't know that society needs more people like me...

Save yourself and your family. Do not use Windows Vista. This is very serious, and I mean this with every ounce of what's left of my soul. I have lost so much and feel I now have an obligation to teach others what I know; And to try with what's left of my life to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.




"VISTA is GARBAGE - Stick with XP or go to OSX", VISTA is nothing but frustration.

I'm the IT administrator for a small business. I've installed virtually every version of DOS and Windows Microsoft has put out since the early 80s. VISTA is the worst operating system I've ever seen. It is BUGGY, UNINTUITIVE, a RESOURCE HOG, and INTRUSIVE. It boils my blood every time I have to use it.

The browse boxes are so unintuitive, it is hard to figure out what Microsoft had in mind. They removed the "up one level" button in favor of a button that gives you a list of your most recently viewed folders. It takes lots more clicking around to get to the folder you want. This is total STUPIDITY.

The wireless networking is so buggy as to be nearly useless. You'll need to continuously reboot your machine to get your connection to work.

You'll come to hate the "whirli-gig" and you'll get lots of NOT RESPONDING messages when you try to launch or use applications. If I had a dollar for every time I got a NOT RESPONDING message, our Dell M1330 laptop would be free by now.

So often, I'll launch an application and the whirli-gig will come on the screen and then I wait . . . and wait . . . and wait . . . and wait. What is this Core Two Duo laptop doing??? VISTA has so many intrusive processes, it is frustrating to even launch an application (and my machine is a 2.4 GHZ Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and a 7200 RPM drive). This machine would fly on XP.

If you enjoy spending lots of time trying to figure out why your machine won't do simple things reliably, if you want to spend lots of time talking to technical support people with thick accents who really can't help you because the operating system is basically JUNK, then by all means buy VISTA.

We are abandoning our VISTA experiment and going back to XP because it is reasonably reliable and because we need to get things done on the computer rather than always battling with its VISTA-isms. VISTA is a huge step backwards for Microsoft and I seriously doubt that Service Pack 1 will be enough to fix such major design flaws. Maybe when they come out with VISTA RELEASE 2 their poor sales will force them to listen to consumers.

I sure wish I could convince all my competitors to buy VISTA machine because it would absorb so much of their resources it would give our business a real boost.

"Slow, buggy, not ready for prime time. Stick with Windows XP.", I am a web developer and I had a test run of Windows Vista Business on my development machine for about a month. To sum it up -- a terrible and painful experience.

I do most of my work on my Dell 640M laptop:
1.6 GHz Intel Dual Core
Built-in video
2 GB RAM
80 GB hard drive

My laptop came with Windows XP and I got Vista Business as a "free" upgrade, even though I had to pay over $30 for shipping.

First, I installed it as upgrade -- a terrible idea. It was incredibly slow and would freeze on simple tasks like copy/pasting text or files. Many programs would crash or simply would not load.

Off goes the upgrade, on comes the clean install...

Things are better this time around, but boot time is at least twice as slow compared to Windows XP.

Next thing I tried to do is to use a briefcase to synchronize my development projects. There's this big site I'm working on with probably 1000 files in it, and Vista could never quite finish copying all the files to the briefcase over my home network (no such problems with XP). About half-way through, it would just freeze.

The Aero interface looked nice, but I had to disable it because it was just too much for my built-in Intel video chip. Still, simple operations like copy/ paste result in a small freeze, then up comes the system warning which other reviewers mentioned and then finally the "paste" part.

Same 5-10 sec freeze when I do development work and call up some application or try to display a simple HTML page from my local IIS server. Again, no such thing with XP.

Next gripe is the system shutdown. The default option is now "Sleep" which is real fast. But if you select, "Shut Down", prepare to wait. Possibly, forever. All in all, it ends up turning off about 30% of the time, other times you just see the never-ending "Shutting Down..." screen and have to turn the power off manually. All my applications/ drivers are Vista-capable, so this should not be caused by 3rd party application sotware "in theory".

Next, what is up with changing item labels? "Add or Remove Programs" is gone. "Programs and Features" is apparently much cooler according to Microsoft's marketing dept.

I get a feeling that they just moved the stuff around to make it look "newer". There are no improvements and often things are hard to find/ not intuitive on the control panel, in display properties and other areas.

Windows Explorer used to be great. I'd add copy/paste buttons to the toolbar and such operations would be a matter of a few clicks. Not anymore. Even simple browsing ("directory up" for example) buttons are gone. So you go through Desktop, then my computer, then C: to get to your main hard drive partition. Ridiculous!

Applications in general (I work mostly with Adobe/Macromedia Suite -- Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, etc.) run *much* slower on Vista compared to XP, often with the beforementioned freezes whenever a simple operation is performed.

After about 1 month I had enough. Back to Windows XP Professional. Couldn't be happier. Everything is fast, responsive. It lets me do my work without getting in the way just as an operating system *should*.

Sorry Microsoft, I am not going to be a beta tester for your unfinished, bloated product just because it is "new" and shiny. An "upgrade" usually implies a better, faster, more intuitive O/S. Vista offers none of these things except a shiny interface and a few useless visual effects. All they do is drain system resources.

If you're looking for a fast, reliable and secure O/S, go with Windows XP Professional. Don't waste your money on Vista.