Windows Vista stinks!!!

When it comes to my computers, I am firmly in the camp of "I don't upgrade until I'm forced to or until I absolutely need a specific version for a specific task"... like others have said, there are often bugs and glitches to work out with the new releases and I'm not inclined to be their guinea pig LOL However, you do have those people who absolutely HAVE to have every new thing that comes out - just so they can say they have it. I'm definitely not one of those people.

I ran a pre release version of Windows Vista for a couple of months, and I had more compatability issues than I could have thought possible. I could not install Norton antivirus or Nero Burning ROM, and Power DVD did not run properly. There were also issues with WS-FTP and pdfFactory, so I ended up using a lot of different programs instead of the ones that I normally use. My CD Writer was not recognised at all and did not even appear as a ROM drive, so I had to use the DVD Writer for everything. I downloaded updates on a regular basis, but the compatability stayed the same, so eventually I conceded and returned to Windows XP. It is hard to credit that Microsoft have released an operating system with so many problems, and for once I really sympathise with people working in Technical Support who will be flooded with impossible scenarios.

My girlfriend says she has had to download a lot of patches and it still isn't working right. I bought my labtop before Vista and I am waiting for awhile till the bugs get worked out before I get my upgrade. It always takes abiout six months for them to fix the bugs.

Hey.... before screaming, let your brain do an analysis of the problem..... Vista is so new to the market and s/w enggis all over the world. Let everyone get used to it, and then u will find tones of s/ws, drivers for ur printer and other h/w and all other issues will be sorted out. In fact, you should be proud that you got the latest OS that others are starving to get hands on; even I am....So, keep ur cool wait for 1-2 months and then you will not regret ur upgrade to Vista. Vista is a product from Microsoft and they won't let there OS down in anyways.... MICROSOFT is the ULTIMATE.......

Actually it's too early for me. I'll wait until some of my friends have tried it, and even then I probably won't update unless it has something special to offer me. I'm happy with XP.

Vista suffers compatibility hell at the moment. I'd suggest you use Windows XP until these Vista issues are resolved. In my case, I'll wait a couple of months (or until the issues get resolved) before I bolt to VIsta. =)

windows always stinks, as a matter of fact....i bet it gets better with some service packs just as XP did

i don't have vista, but still don't like it. alot of the programs that are around doesn't work yet with vista, and new software cost a bunch of extra money. plus vista is still very buggy. plus it is way to heavy. plus i don't like the fact that it contains a lot of DRM (stuff to spy on your computers) i call vista: windows legitimate spyware OS if would want to buy vista, i would need to upgrade my pc. and that means a total upgrade so that would cost me around 1200$ i think. add the price of vista to that. nah, that's not worth it. i'll stick to XP for as long as possible. and when XP doesn't work anymore, i'll have to learn to work with linux based OS

Oops..my hubby is due to receive the vista update on his laptop very soon..hmm maybe I should warn him! But he hasn't made any updates or downloads on it yet, so he can do it after Vista is installed. Let's see, hope it isn't so bad for him!

Windows Vista clearly is not a great new performer when it comes to executing single applications at maximum speed. Although we only looked at the 32-bit version of Windows Vista Enterprise, we do not expect the 64-bit edition to be faster (at least not with 32-bit applications). Overall, applications performed as expected, or executed slightly slower than under Windows XP. The synthetic benchmarks such as Everest, PCMark05 or Sandra 2007 show that differences are non-existent on a component level. We also found some programs that refused to work, and others that seem to cause problems at first but eventually ran properly. In any case, we recommend watching for Vista-related software upgrades from your software vendors. There are some programs that showed deeply disappointing performance. Unreal Tournament 2004 and the professional graphics benchmarking suite SPECviewperf 9.03 suffered heavily from the lack of support for the OpenGL graphics library under Windows Vista. This is something we expected, and we clearly advise against replacing Windows XP with Windows Vista if you need to run professional graphics applications. Both ATI and Nvidia will offer OpenGL support in upcoming driver releases, but it remains to be seen if and how other graphics vendors or Microsoft may offer it. We are disappointed that CPU-intensive applications such as video transcoding with XviD (DVD to XviD MPEG4) or the MainConcept H.264 Encoder performed 18% to nearly 24% slower in our standard benchmark scenarios. Both benchmarks finished much quicker under Windows XP. There aren't newer versions available, and we don't see immediate solutions to this issue. There is good news as well: we did not find evidence that Windows Vista's new and fancy AeroGlass interface consumes more energy than Windows XP's 2D desktop. Although our measurements indicate a 1 W increase in power draw at the plug, this is too little of a difference to draw any conclusions. Obviously, the requirements for displaying all elements in 3D, rotating and moving them aren't enough to heat up graphics processors. This might also be a result of Windows Vista's more advanced implementation of ACPI 2.0 (and parts of 3.0), which allows the control of power of system components separately. Our hopes that Vista might be able to speed up applications are gone. First tests with 64-bit editions result in numbers similar to our 32-bit results, and we believe it's safe to say that users looking for more raw performance will be disappointed with Vista. Vista is the better Windows, because it behaves better, because it looks better and because it feels better. But it cannot perform better than Windows XP. Is this a K.O. for Windows Vista in the enthusiast space? If you really need your PC to finish huge encoding, transcoding or rendering workloads within a defined time frame, yes, it is. Don't do it; stay with XP. But as long as you don't need to finish workloads in record time, we believe it makes sense to consider these three bullet points: * Vista runs considerably more services and thus has to spend somewhat more resources on itself. Indexing, connectivity and usability don't come for free. * There is a lot of CPU performance available today! We've got really fast dual core processors, and even faster quad cores will hit the market by the middle of the year. Even though you will lose application performance by upgrading to Vista, today's hardware is much faster than yesterday's, and tomorrow's processors will clearly leap even further ahead. * No new Windows release has been able to offer more application performance than its predecessor. Although application performance has had this drawback, the new Windows Vista performance features SuperFetch and ReadyDrive help to make Vista feel faster and smoother than Windows XP. Our next article will tell you how they work.

In my opinion, not all printers are compatible with such Windows OS... probably it needs a driver for Vista, that's all... but if you ask me, I still go for XP because they are still doing just fine.

I don't ever nuy the new programs when they first come out! I just got Windows XP 4 years ago! I love it and while everyone else works out the bugs with Vista I will be smooth sailin with My windows XP! I always say if it ain't broke don't fix it right? Also it will be cheaper in a couple of years too!

I work as a technical support for an ISP and our software programs are not yet compatible with Vista. There are also wireless issues that are being worked on. The same thing happened with WinXP and even Mac OS 10.4.8 when they were released, that's why it's always best not to buy the first releases.

ye,but anyone has its dog day ,each favourite is different ,choose what u want ,,,

I will stick with XP until it will no longer work due to being seriously outdated, lol. I went from using Windows 95 to XP lol, that's about how long Ill keep my platform, I hate upgrading to new platforms when the one I have is perfectly fine.

Well I will be sticking to my Windows XP I just don't know why they keep having to come out with these new Things, lol. I do hope you have got it sorted. I know I would have lost it by now, lol.

thats for sharing ur problems with vista. i was about to update my system with this and i searched for feed back.looks like it is creating a lot of problems.i better stick with the presentXP.

i don't have vista and i was planning on getting it, until i heard from a friend that has it that it reads copyrights and will not let you burn anything that is copyrighted. So i burn alot of DB+VD's and CD's on my computer so if i can not do that with Vista i am not going to waste my money on it.

Last Year, YOU REMINDED me with the discussion I REMEMBER! Windows Vista was in beta, One of my buddies got it. So he download Ventrilio! its a microphone Chat Thingy WE ALL PLAY THE VIDEO GAME Battlefield 2! and 2142! so when we were loading, All of a sudden on his a microphone an Endless CAWING, It was a vulture on his Windows Vista! Its cawing, cawing, endlessly endlessly. Half an Hour later it stopped,he said there were more than 90 error messages that popped up. It stopped. 20 minutes later. It kept cawing, and doing that desert caw over and over! AHHHH! I like the Vulture! But I don't Want it cawing more than once!

I never thought that would be much more difficulties in Vista? I just read the review and some of my friends opinion. They like it. Hm. I think why dun give them time to improve better. They will improve. But, meanwhile just use Vista and go on with using it. We need to use more new technology. We use it with patient and many new technology will come. I'd like to use Vista, maybe later. Not now.