Interesting point of view.
<fwiw>
My Vista experience has been fine. ( Vista Ultimate )
However, I started with a Vista capable Core 2 Duo machine with plenty of RAM
and Vista capable sound and Video.

A lot of the problems I've seen posted here and other places seem to evolve around folks
trying
to run Vista on a machine that just can't handle it.

A lot of people run the compatibility tester, get warnings, go ahead and install it anyway
and then wonder why they have issues.

For me, it boots fast, applications load in a blink, IE and Windows Mail are quicker than
in XP,
( I have a dual boot set up with each OS on it's own drive )

My only frustration was getting used to UAC, which I have left turned on.

</fwiw>

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Steve Easton


"David Dickinson" <eveningstar@die-spammer-die.mvps.org> wrote in message
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> <BEGIN OPINION>
> I gotta tell ya', I've made a lot of money from using and supporting Microsoft products
> over the last 28 years. But now, I'm afraid.
>
> The Vista user interface has many, many counter-intuitive features, including some that
> through creating confusion will cause disasters, including loss of data. In fact,
> Explorer windows may show inaccurate information. Vista doesn't play well with other
> machines on a network. Administering it can be tedious and time-consuming when compared
> to previous OS's. A lot of stuff either doesn't work the way you expect or just doesn't
> work at all. It's been dumbed down in some areas so much that administrators can't do
> some things they need to do (such as customized backups), while some other "features"
> have been made so complicated that the average user is going to have to ask for help
> where none was needed before. And while it certainly does have a pretty interface, it's
> a hardware hog with lousy performance even in the most stripped-down configuration.
> People can buy tremendous hardware thinking that they're going to get the machine of
> their dreams, only to find out that it's slower than molasses in January (for instance,
> will DX10 destroy DirectX's place in the market?).
>
> And it's buggy, and has been hacked on live TV (with promises from eEye of more to
> come).
>
> Nevertheless, I'm going to have to support Vista. But my clients will be calling more
> about computer problems than about finding solutions for their business operations. And
> they'll be unhappy about it.
>
> I realize that hardware vendors eventually will come up with truly Vista-compatible
> drivers, third-parties will offer software to overcome many of Vista's user-interface
> and configurability weaknesses, and eventually Microsoft will issue hotfixes and service
> packs to fix the bugs and security holes. And I have no doubt that near-future hardware
> advances eventually will make up for some of Vista's performance problems.
>
> But I'm convinced that the next couple of years are not going to be fun, and I even
> wonder if we'll be using Vista's Explorer UI at all by then.
>
> I just hope I never resort to saying "Look, don't blame me. I didn't write this thing."
> I'll probably be better off if I recommend to my clients that they avoid getting Vista
> for a couple of years.
> <END OPINION>
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> David Dickinson
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