A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Vista

I woulda signed that one, had I known about it. Ah well, XP knows I love it.

windows 2000 is my personal fave.

 Yep, still using Vista on all of my PC's with no problems... tried to install Windows XP Pro on one, hated the interface and went back to Vista.  A sad day indeed.

Did you get that backwards, 1nteljunki3?

 No, I've actually enjoyed the Vista experience.  Unlike many others, I deployed the OS at our business just over a year ago.  Though we still have 2 XP machines on the network for testing purposes, all of the actual computers used by employees are Vista.  It's been a pleasure to work with, so much so that I deployed it on my home network as well.  Like I said, I installed XP Pro on one of them and had to go back to Vista because I like its features.  I know... I'm weird.

You're not wierd. I'm one of - what seems to be - the few who have had good experiences with Vista as well. Migrated two old laptops over when Vista was first released that are still going strong, and have obviously switched over my test machines and personal machines as well.

You know since Vista's SP1 release I'm much more enthralled with it. I only have 2 computers at home still on XP, this one and a laptop. If I had a license for either XP or Vista for my work PC I'd upgrade to one of those but can't since I've got no legit license for my work PC other than Win 2000.

Really liking me some Vista these days. and you know what I seem to recall going through the exact same thing upgrading to XP once SP1 came out and proved it could handle my workload I upgraded to that.

Vista has its good days and bad days with me but I've made the cutover and won't look back. I'm very use to the interface and think, in general, it's a reasonably stable OS for every day use.

vista is good but if you got a slow computer, it is the worst os. i remember running vista on my old rig and it would boot up with 800mb of ram in use! good thing i had 2gb...

Vista does use more RAM than XP, but it's not simply because it is more resource hungry. Vista will dynamically use more ram as a cache, which ultimately help performance.

BigWop:

Vista does use more RAM than XP, but it's not simply because it is more resource hungry. Vista will dynamically use more ram as a cache, which ultimately help performance.

Im using Vista Ultimate on a friends computer that I,ve upgraded for her that she,s giving to her grandaughter so I added 2 gigs of ram to it and now its got a total of 4gigs.It reconized it and definatly see the differance in performance! Seeing how she,s not in a hurry it gives me time to learn it and Firefox3 so when I get my rig built I,ll be more familiar with both Vista and Firefox.Hopefully I can stuff my new rig with about 6 to 8gigs.Then I,ll try some tweaks to Vista.So far I like it just get use to it more but its going to be a keeper!

I havent had a probelm since the initial lauch when driver were not out. Still some drivbers are less than optimal for vista. But thats not the OS's fault thats the companies fault for not supplying us the customers with proper divers

I'm big on small footprints. When I heard that Vista would require 2GB, I had to pass. Everything in this world is getting smaller and faster. How come the Microsoft software engineers can't figure out a way to improve on XP while keeping the system requirements the same or lower than XP?

In my humble opinion, Vista is bloatware and until it can do something significantly better than XP, I'll have to pass.

I would like to know....since I am no Vista hater...what the OS problems are CURRENTLY?? Everything I hear about stems from initial problems with the OS and nothing seems to be current issues.

Can anyone tell me WHY its so negatively thought of (without citing from the initial release)? I assume the majority of what I will hear is networking problems....but I guess I am generalizing this more towards a everyday consumer-base

problem with vista is people feel like regardless of their computer it should run super fast. Vista is really a bridge for Microsoft to go to complete 64 bit support, something they should of done from the start. 64bit for vista and leave 32 bit xp for the people who need 32 bit or are runing grandma special junkorama pc. Their mistakes could have been atleast from my standpoint avoidable. First, no one need so many versions of the same OS. Stupid move. Make a home edition and a pro edition at the most. Dont make a 32 bit edition period and focus manpower on perfecting a single 64 bit version. Help Oems with their driver support. Vista launch was horrible for one reason, companies like nvidia had the worst drivers I have ever seen. All that aside, I have been using 64 bit vista since the launch and other than the initial nvidia problems I havent ran into a single stability issue.

Precisely FlyinBrian....I agree with everything you had mentioned.

You cannot expect to put a lambourgini body over your cavalier (we'll say it'd fit) and expect the thing to fly without some upgrades to the INTERNAL components -- the same goes for Vista: if you want the performance of it, you need to shell out a little dough bottom line.

I would also agree that MS working with OEMs on future releases would be ideal in a seamless release -- obviously MS knows their own OS better than anyone so they would be instrumental in helping vendors out. Ultimately it is still the vendor's responsibility to release quality products though...

Lastly, the release of 4 versions of Vista I believe confused customers more than anything and no one was quite sure what they needed. Like you say release a Home version (halfway between Basic and Home Prem) and Pro (basically Ultimate). The next release (Windows 7) will almost certainly HAVE to be 64-bit only due to the fact that hardware capabilities are (or will be) well beyond what the OS will be able to take advantage of if it remaims 32-bit. My only concern here is the lack of support of the aforementioned from software vendors. A handful of well-known problems work fine with the emulator but very few can actually take advantage of it -- many well-known Anti-virus and Anti-spyware even lack 64-bit installers and are 100% incompatibile currently. IMO software vendors need to get off their @$$ and get ready for next-gen (some may even say current gen) OSes

I seriously doubt there will ever be any save vista but I do look forward to windows 7

go ubuntu! down with the old up with the GNU!

Stubble linux is very old. so down with that too? I have 2Gbs of RAM in xp it would set at maybe 10% usage after running for a day. Vista 40%. Ubuntu sits at about 75%! Linux will cache the crap out of commonly used apps. Vista does as well but not quite to such and extreme. XP just sits there and wastes you RAM. If I buy more ram I want to use it! I'm very happy with Vista and I think that most of you bashing it have never used it on a day to day basis. Try something out before you bash it. As for keeping XP for older pc then what is the point in selling it? Its already on the older PC. If your buying a new PC then it can handle Vista.

boo hoo.

vista is actually good...but you have to actually try it to know that...