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Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You

February 27, 2007 at 2:29 am · in Microsoft, Technology · Comments

No, seriously. When I have the time, I’m “upgrading” from Windows Vista to Windows XP. My keyboard is completely ambiguous.

I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best. I realize that other enthusiasts are leaving Windows altogether (and leaping instead to Apple’s OS X), but there’s not yet enough momentum behind my willingness to do that. I’ll leave the installs of Vista 32 and 64 on this PC, but I’ll spend most (if not all) of my time back in tried-and-true Windows XP.

I’ll give Vista a second chance when the first service pack is released later this year, but until then…

  1. My scanner doesn’t really work (Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 3052). HP hasn’t caught up with support yet, and software updates won’t be available until SP1 time-frame. The software works like a charm in XP - amazingly well, as a matter of fact.
  2. Windows Movie Maker crashes on a regular basis.
  3. My IPFax software doesn’t work (the driver will likely never be updated to be Vista-compliant). Never, EVER caused me a problem in XP. I need this software to work, and dual-booting to use this is not an option.
  4. I still can’t get my Lifecam to work, but wound up purchasing the vastly superior Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision instead (which puts Microsoft’s new webcam software AND hardware series to shame).
  5. On the same machine (AMD Quad FX), XP trumps Vista in terms of performance. I don’t have specific benchmarks on hand, but I can tell you the difference is quite palpable. This is even with most of Vista’s eye candy tuned to a dull roar. We’ll see if it runs just as quickly when everything’s reinstalled there. I only discovered this after rebooting to try my scanner in XP - blazing differences, similar tasks.
  6. NVIDIA chipsets and video cards. Need I say more?
  7. I simply can’t get to my OS X machine from Vista (or mount a WebDAV server).
  8. Copernic Desktop Search, a far superior desktop search client to Microsoft’s, either doesn’t like Vista or Outlook 2007 - not sure which, yet. Either way, I can’t run it right now - and the Windows Desktop Search tool is still as lame as ever (sorry, Brandon). I’ll miss the new Start Menu, but I think there’s similar third-party software that’ll keep me happy in the meanwhile.
  9. Explorer keeps losing my view settings. THIS IS DRIVING ME UP THE FARKING WALL! Now, I realize that XP suffers from this problem as well, but it’s never been this bad. There are so many new options that it’s difficult to reset each window’s view every time - including column headers, which are now permanently stuck on “Tags” and “Date Taken” (even though I may not be in a folder with objects supportive of these fields). Yes, I realize this problem stretches back centuries - but it seems to have gotten worse, not better.
  10. My workaday software still seems to suffer from weird quirks now and again. I really don’t have the time or patience to wait for each developer to catch up just so I can go on living my life. All these little annoyances are starting to add up to one major headache. Instead of detailing each one separately (and extending this list exponentially), I’m just wrapping all of ‘em together into one point.

If you think I’ve missed something somewhere, think again.

Sorry, I… I gave Vista a real chance. I just can’t use it as my primary OS anymore. It’s NOT horrible at its core (by any stretch of the imagination). If all of your hardware and software are fully baked, you’re good to go - but that’s not the world I live in. I will continue to recommend Windows Vista for some users, mind you. I wish I could take the best parts of Vista and bring them back with me to XP. I’m still more than willing to help Microsoft improve Windows and get the message out to users, but I simply can’t sacrifice my own time and productivity without benefits in clear sight. I’m begging Microsoft and all of my hardware and software vendors to make Windows better for me. Until then…

The Whoa starts now (and is continued here).

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タメになるNEWS! - November 30, 1999 @ 12:00 am

著名ハイテクブロガーのChris Pirillo氏が、『Windows Vista』を『Windows XP』に「アップグレード」したと発表し、最近になってちょっとした物議を醸した。すべての始まりは「Windows Vista、君とはもうお別れだ

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Windows Vista I’m Breaking Up With You

Compiler - Wired Blogs - November 30, 1999 @ 12:00 am

[IMG Pirillo] Chris Pirillo sparked off a little controversy last week when he announced that he was “upgrading” from Windows Vista to Windows XP. It started with a post on Pirillo’s blog entitled Windows Vista I’m Breaking Up With You. Apparently lacking anything better to write about, a number of mainstream media outlets picked it up as a story and the usual controversy surrounding the opinions of a high profile blogger ensued.

Good2gether - November 30, 1999 @ 12:00 am

not alone on this

Sunshine Moonlight　Ｖｅｒ．２００７．００９ - November 30, 1999 @ 12:00 am

著名ハイテクブロガーのChris Pirillo氏が、『Windows Vista』を『Windows XP』に「アップグレード」したと発表し、最近になってちょっとした物議を醸した。すべての始まりは「Windows Vista、君とはもうお別れだ

窓の便利帳 - November 30, 1999 @ 12:00 am

著名ハイテクブロガーのChris Pirillo氏が、『Windows Vista』を『Windows XP』に「アップグレード」したと発表し、最近になってちょっとした物議を醸した。 すべての始まりは「Windows Vista、君とはもうお別れだ 」(Windows Vista I’m Breaking Up With You、英文)と題した、2月27日付の自身のブログへの投稿だった。

soeren - February 27, 2007 @ 2:40 am

Tried it yesterday on my gf’s new notebook and couldn’t complain. They pretty much osx’ed a good chunk of the gui, haven’t used it long enough to ramble about the tech issues though…

Chris Pirillo rinuncia a Vista - February 27, 2007 @ 4:21 am

[…] Chris Pirillo ha deciso di lasciare Windows Vista e passare a XP. La notizia sarebbe di poco conto, se non fosse che Chris è un blogger molto seguito e quello che scrive ha un certo peso. […]

Alvin Brinson - February 27, 2007 @ 4:57 am

It is a challenge, I’ll admit. Btw, I found a solution for the WebDAV issue - believe it or not you just have to install Office 2003. It includes some of the WebDAV components that appear to be missing in Vista.

Wrote a longer response to your post on my new blog/site at http://vistanoob.com/component.....topic,7.0/ if you’d be interested in seeing it.

Duh - February 27, 2007 @ 5:59 am

Hmm. Maybe you should be carping at the various third-parties at not getting their drivers and applications Vista-compatible for launch. ATI works great over here as does my Canon scanner… actually every peripheral I have works fine with all three of my Vista machines. So it was possible, just not every company chose to get there. Just like it is possible to build every Windows app on OS X, just not ever company chooses to get there.

Vista’s not perfect, but it’s working great over here for work and personal and I really only find myself using my beautiful (non-Intel) PowerBook to play with OS X only apps. With XP, I definitely used OS X every chance I got, with Vista, who cares, they’re both good.

In a perfect world, maybe OS X would run on commodity hardware and have an ecosystem as large as Microsoft’s. It doesn’t, so the pragmatic part of me isn’t going to dwell on the fact that I miss Quicksilver.

Tom - February 27, 2007 @ 7:22 am

Hi Chris,
I’m with you…I was first in line to purchase Windows ME(Ugh) and it’s dejavu all over again. It’s inexcusable that MS released Vista as it is.

Jason - February 27, 2007 @ 8:04 am

Chris,
I took that next step, Went to a MAC PRO it is way fast and just works. I tried to install Vista on my VERY FAST computer to no avail. I got it to work in parallels no problem. Not much I miss about Vista/XP. I do use Thunderbird so outlook is not an issue.

Good luck

]ason

Ron K Jeffries - February 27, 2007 @ 8:35 am

Chris Pirillo is right — it’s too early to attempt to use Vista for serious work.

I am using Kubuntu Linux on one PC, and liking it a lot.

And for the first time ever I’m starting to consider buying a Mac laptop so I can experiment with OS-X.

Todd - February 27, 2007 @ 8:38 am

Thanks for this honest review of Vista. I’m glad I haven’t spent the money. Once I have the cash, I’m switching over to OS X on new hardware and I’ll install Linux (Ubuntu, probably) on my older machines. If I need Windows, I’ll use BootCamp or Parallels.

Cheers,
Todd

john ludwig - February 27, 2007 @ 9:31 am

i am stunned at how underbaked vista is. bluescreen in my 1394 driver. complete spontaneous reboots. hangs when i try to install a printer driver. this thing is ugly. shades of windows3.0.

Matthew Toney - February 27, 2007 @ 9:43 am

Can’t hardly blame you - I’m realling enjoying my usage of Vista on an everyday basis, but I made a personal list back at the first RC I tried of what *had* to work in order for me to make the switch - it was near the end of December before all the things on my pretty-short list were checked off and I made the move for good. (and thats truly thanks to a couple of different applications getting new versions that worked properly with Vista)

Another diss for Windows Vista at The Review Angel - February 27, 2007 @ 10:01 am

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Alyssa - February 27, 2007 @ 10:15 am

Chris,

Thanks for sharing your experience with Vista. I haven’t tried it yet, but am keeping up with the “general consensus.” Between this and everything else I’ve read, I”m definitely glad that I am holding out.

I’m just not sure it’s worth it. I read an essay that said,
“let’s consider a world where Vista was not only a flop, it was a total crash and burn.”

Sounds like reality, not a what-if.

- Alyssa

Alyssa - February 27, 2007 @ 10:16 am

Chris,

Thanks for sharing your experience with Vista. I haven’t tried it yet, but am keeping up with the “general consensus.” Between this and everything else I’ve read, I”m definitely glad that I am holding out.

I’m just not sure it’s worth it. I read an essay that said,
“let’s consider a world where Vista was not only a flop, it was a total crash and burn.”

Link: http://advancedmediacommittee......ndows.html

Sounds like reality, not a what-if.

- Alyssa

Jeremy Dennis - February 27, 2007 @ 10:35 am

Chris,
The WebDAV mounting in Vista has been merged with the drive mapping. It took me a few weeks to find it. Map a drive, and put the WebDAV URL in as the path, and it mounts it to a drive letter.
I’m not sure yet wether I prefer that to XP’s way of keeping “network places” and mapped drives separate.

Petar Smilajkov - February 27, 2007 @ 11:53 am

Hey, sad to hear you have so many issues with Vista. I’m using it for over a month now - Full time, and I’m still hanging in :)

1) Did you try using the drivers for your scanner from Windows XP? I find that all of my things work this way.
2) I do not really use Windows Movie Maker but I did make one movie - no issues there.
3) For IPFax - if dual booting is not an issue, and since you miss XP much, why just not install Virtual PC 2007 and Windows XP there and work like that?
4) See you got a new camera thanks to Vista! :P
5) No comment ;) On my dual core intel - all runs smooth - how much RAM do you have?
6) NVIDIA - join the Class Action suit! :) I find my computer working a lot better with Microsoft’s Nvidia drivers ;)
7) ?
8) Search is a withc, but I do not use it much. You know what search is THE BEST - Freakin Total Commander’s integrated. I use that on daily basis. Plain ol’ go thourh everything no indexes needed… Quite fast! And yea, Brandon’s a cool dude - did you see his Start++?
9) FINALLY I FREAKIN AGREE! Geez, what-up with this? Is there a registry setting for this so we can change it from 3 to 3 million views to remember?

Does Microsoft listen to posts like these? I trully hope so… I got a bunch of things noted on my site (1 month with Vista), but I do not even know where to report the damn bugs?

Cheers,
Petar
www.VistaJuice.com

The Chris and Dwight show | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | - February 27, 2007 @ 11:56 am

[…] Chris Pirillo says he’s breaking up with Windows Vista. It’s vintage agitprop from Chris, and I was going to respond. […]

Steve Severance - February 27, 2007 @ 12:07 pm

Sorry to hear that Chris. I have not had any problems with Vista and I even like it. However I am loath to recommend that people actually go to the store and buy it. I just cannot justify the price. All the things that I consider it great for are really just things that have been fixed after after XP, like being able to install printers as a regular user.

Steve

Thomas Hawk - February 27, 2007 @ 12:35 pm

Holly Kanole! This from Chris Pirillo? Woowza.

Time to get a Mac Pal.

http://thomashawk.com/2007/02/.....t-mac.html

Jim - February 27, 2007 @ 1:12 pm

Darn right - I’m tired of hearing the media machine parrot the virtues of vista when it is not ready for everyday use. Enough said.

Best Regards, Jim

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WhoCares - February 27, 2007 @ 3:11 pm

Who cares? Use what works for you. If Vista isn’t cutting it, go back to XP or a Mac. I don’t understand why one person deciding that Vista isn’t working for them and going back to XP matters at all. For that one person another thousand just bought new PCs/laptops with Vista (not counting how many upgraded). It’s a matter of personal preference and I haven’t had any major problems with my Vista install.

Give it time and if your impatient, either go back to XP or get a Mac. I could care less.

Boris Yeltsin - February 27, 2007 @ 3:25 pm

I’m with you Chris.

I did exactly the same. I installed Vista RTM on my laptop and it lasted 2 days before I went back to XP. XP is great. I can’t find any good reason to run Vista yet.

I’m using Longhorn on a server here, but it’s obnoxious to use. The security is better, but there are so many niggling little frustrations with the interface that it’s driving me insane. Today I realised it won’t let me Cut + Paste files in Explorer. I have to select them and then use “Move To Folder…” from the Edit menu. Where is the sanity?

Jim Hamm - February 27, 2007 @ 3:27 pm

I’ve used Vista for two weeks and have had some problems. Just got a Vista-capable driver for my Canon printer this morning - yea! If I had a lot of apps to use as Chris does, I’d recommend waiting about 6 months for all (most?) the vendors to get their drivers and programs updated before switching to Vista. I wasn’t particularly ‘hot’ to get Vista, just the timing worked out that way. Overall, I like Vista, but it’s probably too early for a lot of people to switch right now.

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[…] What a terrible day for Microsoft Vista! It is getting a lot of negative reviews, with some reviewers urging people to stick to the old XP-Office 2003 combination. Chris Pirillo, the biggest Microsoft Windows proponent out there says he is breaking up with Vista. Damn - that’s harsh. Since we don’t do Windows, we really can’t vouch for all the negativity. […]

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James - February 27, 2007 @ 3:51 pm

I fully expected Vista to be broken… but expected to hear about it sooner

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[…] UPDATE: Chris Pirillo has this to say: “I’ll give Vista a second chance when the first service pack is released later this year, but until then…” Seriously, how many people are saying the same thing based on their XP experience? Years from now fathers will sit down with their children and add onto the birds and the bees speech “and never install the first release of any new Microsoft software”. SpendMatters: Vista, Office and Outlook 2007 are a Nightmare: The problem — which is absolutely inexcusable — is that Office 2007 (Outlook, specifically) crawls, even on this superfast machine. The hard-drive is also constantly in motion, slowing things down even more. I’m not alone in these observations. You can read other Office 2007 horror stories here and here. Despite a small .PST file — I reduced mine from close to a gig to less than 150 MB — my Intel Centrino Duo-driven notebook chugs along like a 386 trying to run an application originally written for a mainframe system. Even such tasks as composing a simple email are delayed by a few seconds before my typed words ultimately appear on the screen (and send / receives and related activities take an eternity). […]

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hacker not cracker - February 27, 2007 @ 6:28 pm

Hi Chris, I totally agree. I remember when I tried the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta and I was like, “I can’t believe the entire computer population is waiting for this!” The only thing Vista is good for IMHO is the free T-Mobile internet access!

Lots of Criticism going on with Vista and Office 2007 - CyberNet News - February 27, 2007 @ 7:04 pm

[…] Now on to Chris Pirillo’s article regarding his upgrade experience to Windows Vista. He has apparently chosen to stick with XP for right now because of the many problems he has regarding his hardware. Luckily I’ve never had this problem which is something I feel fortunate about. However, complete hardware and software compatibility is really hard to come by when using a new operating system. A user would expect these things to work flawlessly, but that’s not at all realistic. When Windows XP hit the release candidate stage back in 2001 I was on the bandwagon, and after it was released, the same compatibility issues existed. If compatibility issues worry you then hold off for a little bit until both software and hardware manufacturers work out the kinks. […]

Daniel R. H. - February 27, 2007 @ 9:16 pm

Well I’m sorry for you, I’m enjoying my experience with Vista, of course there are some annoying things like some final drivers from Nvidia, and the Explorer view thing… Vista is more intensive using all the hardware, maybe you computer have a hardware problem that XP didn’t notice?

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[…] Well it appears that Chris Pirillo is having another Vista temper tantrum and vows that he’s going back to XP until Service Pack 1 for Vista gets released. […]

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[…] We are in the market for a notebook for my wife, and these kinds of reports, from Chris Pirillo and Jason Busch are not encouraging me to make it a Windows box. Looks like it’ll be an Apple machine. […]

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Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You

Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | Tips, tricks, news, and advice about Windows and Office - February 27, 2007 @ 10:25 pm

Chris Pirillo says he’s breaking up with Windows Vista. It’s vintage agitprop from Chris, and I was going to respond. And then I read Dwight Silverman’s response. Dwight basically said everything I was going to say, starting with this: He has a list of 10 complaints, most of which have to do with

Chris Pirillo rinuncia a Vista - P2P Forum Italia - February 27, 2007 @ 10:40 pm

[…] Chris Pirillo rinuncia a Vista Chris Pirillo ha deciso di lasciare Windows Vista e passare a XP. La notizia sarebbe di poco conto, se non fosse che Chris un blogger molto seguito e quello che scrive ha un certo peso.I motivi che sta per spingere Pirillo a questo passo sono diversi e vengono da lui elencati e motivati. La compatibilit dell’hardware con il nuovo Windows Vista, soprattutto per quei dispositivi per cui probabilmente non verr mai realizzato un driver adeguato, ha un peso sostanziale per chi decide di effettuare un upgrade di sistema operativo. Ma quando anche le schede Nvidia hanno dei problemi con i driver per Vista allora c’ qualcosa che non va. L’altro lato del problema sono i software sia nativi, come il nuovo Windows Media Player, di cui denuncia l’instabilit, sia per certi software che ognuno di noi abituato ad usare e di non disposto a fare a meno. Come conclude Pirillo, questo probabilmente un arrivederci a Vista, ma per ora, causa il tempo perso e i problemi di compatibilit, il gioco non vale la candela. fonte: downloadblog.it __________________ Visita la galleria dei miei disegni […]

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Charles White - Dallas, Texas - February 27, 2007 @ 10:58 pm

Chris,
I find it extremely hard to believe that you could not get Vista to work the way you want it to. I tend to agree with an earlier poster that accuses you of agitprop.

I bought my Vista Ultimate the night it came out and had it loaded and running full speed by morning. I have not had any issues with drivers, BSOD, or anything else for that matter.

If you really want to be that faint of heart, then by all means carry on. But the Chris Pirillo that I am familiar with (by reputation only) is not the type of guy that would write such a bogus post.

jbelkin - February 27, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

70,000 employees, $6 BILLION dollars worth of “R&D” and 20-gigwatts of electricity later? This is the end result? A moth eaten OS but it does come in 31 flavors?

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Kevin Carter - February 27, 2007 @ 11:15 pm

Chris,

In the interest of full disclosure… I am a Mac-Fan-Boy. But I’m not a Fan-Boy due to blind religeous ferver. I have used PCs and Macs over the last 25 years and really appreciate the good, bad and ugly of each new version of OS from MS and Apple. After downloading and using a program called Parallels, I have installed and run evey kind of OS you can imagine (including Solaris) at nearly hardware speeds. Fact is… I can run any OS in the World on my Mac Pro. Just think about that for a moment… I can run MS and Mac OS X simultaneously… with very little compromise. Eventually within the next 6 months I will also be able to run non OS X operating systems at full native GPU speeds. So go ahead, have it all… Mac OS X, MS XP, MS Vista, Linux, Solaris etc… on a Mac you can have any OS you want at full native speeds… no compromise etc… by the way I was able to get Cloverton CPUs working in my Mac Pro recently… so the Mac Pro will be on my desk for many years to come and I don’t have to pick a platform… I can have them all.

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection - February 27, 2007 @ 11:20 pm

Chris Pirillo, Time to Get a Mac

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Dean Rowe - February 27, 2007 @ 11:51 pm

If Windows Movie Maker is crashing try turning off the filters in the compatibility tab. (See this entry, which also applies to Vista), if you want more details.
http://blogs.msdn.com/deanro/a.....18501.aspx

If you’re still having problems shoot me an email and I’ll help.
Cheers
Dean.

Microsoft Vista: No Luv x 2 « Mike Cane’s Blog - February 27, 2007 @ 11:59 pm

[…] Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You Sorry, I… I gave Vista a real chance. I just can’t use it as my primary OS anymore. It’s NOT horrible at its core (by any stretch of the imagination). If all of your hardware and software are fully baked, you’re good to go - but that’s not the world I live in. I will continue to recommend Windows Vista for some users, mind you. I wish I could take the best parts of Vista and bring them back with me to XP. I’m still more than willing to help Microsoft improve Windows and get the message out to users, but I simply can’t sacrifice my own time and productivity without benefits in clear sight. I’m begging Microsoft and all of my hardware and software vendors to make Windows better for me. Until then… […]

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in various ways in that Vista must be so awesome. And… it’s not. I’m sure all of the computers across the entire network have it installed on every system and the whole ship is running smoothly as well. Even more interesting are these posts by Chris Pirillo and Duane Storey. Quite simply, they’re both fed up and bought Macs. I guess Rebecca had a conversation with Duane about it at Northern Voice, and he joked about getting a MacBook soon. When we got home on Saturday, he already had that post up on his

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Is a Vista-Office 2007 retreat beginning? -- A View from the Isle - February 28, 2007 @ 2:12 am

[…] 2007 retreat beginning? by Tris Hussey at 10:55AM (PST) on February 27, 2007  |  Permanent Link  | Chris announced that his relationship with Vista is over.  Poor performance, bad ormissing drivers, he’s pretty much had it.  On SpendMatters Jason’s advice is even stronger–just don’t do it.  Another person going from Vista and Office 2007 to XP and 2003.  Wow. Hey, category managers in charge of IT spend. Want to make yourself a friend of the business for life? I’ve got a secret for you: don’t rubberstamp your CIO’s decision to upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. In fact, tack on a big “reject” to the request or the requisition. And don’t do it to save money. Do it to save your hide. Having spent approximately 25 of my last 40 waking hours trying to get Vista and Office 2007 to perform at the level of my previous operating system and desktop environment, I can honestly say that it’s an absolute travesty that Microsoft would have released such a half-baked product, having put billions into its development. In fact, my friends, colleagues and clients will probably attest to my slower than average response rates via email recently (I simply have not had the patience or the time to write emails while the new composer catches up with my typing). Source: SpendMatters: Vista, Office and Outlook 2007 are a Nightmare Despite my own battles with getting Vista to run nicely on this machine, I like it and am sticking with it.  Same with Office 2007.  Yes, Outlook 2007 is a tad sluggish, but I’m managing. It looks like Microsoft is a tad on the ropes here.  Not as bad as Windows Bob or Windows ME, but given the hype Redmond has serious egg on it’s face IMHO.  Chris classifies Vista as late-beta at best.  What will SP1 bring us?  Improved performance (doubt it)?  Will Microsoft bounce back when it’s released?  SP1 isn’t due until fall (if we’re lucky).  I think MSFT has its work cut out for it now.  You have an operating system that is now in the mass market on most new PCs.  You have a cadre of influential geeks and IT folks saying, yeah nice, but not baked so I’m waiting.  Not good PR. With Google Apps Premier now in the race, I think it MSFT needs to figure out how to fix the Vista user experience (like lean on manufacturers to get drivers out the door and improve buggy ones) fast.  Office 2007?  Well, they have time.  The Office upgrade cycle is measured in years not months. Well, what’s it gonna be? Technorati tags: Vista, Vista problems, Office 2007, Office 2007 problems, Windows […]

All The News The Buzz Approves » BuzzTracker - February 28, 2007 @ 2:13 am

Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You

Charlie Owen - February 28, 2007 @ 4:22 am

help Chris figure out numbers 2, 4, 5, 7 (at least the WebDav issue), 9 and 10 (if he can get specifics). (Ed and Chris are about the most immiscible characters I’ve ever met — but I find each equally refreshing.) I’ll be glad to drop by and help you figure these things out, Chris. Can’t promise I know the answer on every one, but have a good knack for

jesusg - February 28, 2007 @ 5:24 am

I agree.
This is the first time from Windows NT4 I’m not evangelizing for the newest Microsoft OS, but Vista quality does not pass Beta-1 standard.
As a software developer, I can understand other software and hardware manufacturers delay in making drivers and apps Vista compatibles, and I cannot blame Microsoft, but there are too much bugs in Vista.
Furthermore, during the 3 months from RTM (and subscribers download) to general release, Microsoft has not heared nor solved hardly any of the bugs the community has reported.
I think there is a serious problem with the Vista development group, from the head and downwards, and I think Vista can be the begining of the end for Microsoft if the dont take serious measures.

Alexei pavlov - February 28, 2007 @ 5:30 am

My Movie Maker crashes too. Each time when I’m trying to publish movie to PC.

Explorer losing folder view too. It doesn’t happens immediately after install, later, after several weeks.

So annoying…

Ayub - February 28, 2007 @ 6:12 am

Close to a billion dollars investment, more than five years of extensive research and what have we got? A half cooked product that doesn’t support other softwares (sometimes own softwares like media player)!! Bravo…
I love you MSN.

Neowin.net - Chris Pirillo Breaks up with Windows Vista - February 28, 2007 @ 6:12 am

[…] Events Chris Pirillo Breaks up with Windows Vista Posted by Steven Parker on 28 February 2007 - 12:05 · 12 comments & 322 views Pirillo: Windows Vista I’m breaking up with you. No, seriously. When I know I have time, Im upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows XP.I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best. I realize that other enthusiasts are leaving Windows altogether (and leaping instead to Apples OS X), but theres not yet enough momentum behind my willingness to do that. Ill leave the installs of Vista 32 and 64 on this PC, but Ill spend most (if not all) of my time back in tried-and-true Windows XP.Ill give Vista a second chance when the first service pack is released later this year, but until thenMy scanner doesnt really work. The software hasnt caught up yet, and wont be available until SP1 time-frame. The software works like a charm in XP - amazingly well, as a matter of fact.Windows Movie Maker crashes on a regular basis.My IPFax software doesnt work (the driver will likely never be updated to be Vista-compliant). Never, EVER caused me a problem in XP. I need this software to work, and dual-booting to use it is not an option. 0Continue At Source View: Full Article @ Chris.Pirillo.com Follow up: Chris gets lynched for his decision (not by me I might add..) Contact Steven Parker or view all of this author’s submissions · Normal View · Headline View         0 Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=728;Ads_yl=90;Ads_xp=”;Ads_yp=”;Ads_xp1=”;Ads_yp1=”;Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd=’[KeyWord]’;Ads_par=”;Ads_cnturl=”; Post a comment · Send to friend There are 12 additional comments […]

Neil - February 28, 2007 @ 6:42 am

Funny how we encountered most of the problems and threw skip loads of perfectly good working kit like scanners and printers when we migrated from Windows 98 to XP.

Plus ca change.

BBC NEWS | Technology - February 28, 2007 @ 6:44 am

[…] FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE Sorry, I…I gave Vista a real chance. I just can’t use it as my primary OS anymore. Chris Pirillo explains why he is ‘upgrading’ to Windows XP […]

Neil - February 28, 2007 @ 6:44 am

Funny how we encountered many similar problems and threw skip loads of perfectly good working kit like scanners and printers when we migrated from Windows 98 to XP. SP1 improved things when it eventually slouched out.

Plus ca change.

Mike mine an imac.

kravex - February 28, 2007 @ 6:46 am

“(and leaping instead to Apple’s OS X), but there’s not yet enough momentum behind my willingness to do that.”

Yeah, because then you would have more than 10 things that you have now and don’t work on it, but I bet you don’t write an article about that.

Knight - February 28, 2007 @ 6:53 am

Windows Vista will require 24 months to fully mature. Microsoft bite off more then they could chew with their Longhorn Vision. I’m going to wait 12 to 24 months and see how well things develop.

For now Windows Vista is just a nice OS to visit but not to live with.

Tailrank - Top News for Today in Technology - February 28, 2007 @ 7:00 am

Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You

jharr - February 28, 2007 @ 7:29 am

That last paragraph makes it sound like you’re breaking up with Vista but leaving the door open to try and date her mom, no need for that bit at the end about recommending for some and not others…unless that some are people you truly, truly hate :)

Jess Hampshire - February 28, 2007 @ 7:30 am

I tried the demo version of Vista on my father’s new MacBook under parallels desktop.

It seemed to run OK, there didn’t seen any stability or driver issues. Not as fast as I would like though. Quite a few programs wouldn’t run. Annoyingly, it expired just as I wanted to test something.

The Virtual Machine now has Windows 95 on to run legacy software.

The Linkman Cometh » Mitchelaneous - February 28, 2007 @ 7:32 am

[…] + Chris is Breaking Up With Vista - Heck, I haven’t even gotten to meet her yet. Does make me feel a little better for not jumping off the deep end as soon as Vista came out. […]

Rene Maes - February 28, 2007 @ 7:33 am

Give Linux a chance. you will not regret it.
Try a Live Install (from CD) before you make your mind to really install.

I did quit Windows for work and home back in 02/2005.

All my hardware was recognized at install (Sata disks, wireless, sound on board, webcam, wireless keyboard and mouse, external USB DVD burner, everything…). As well on IBM laptop (T40p) as on my server at home.

Distributions are mature and install like a breeze. You can first go dual boot (Linux install will see your XP and help you on that), then decide later you throw MS completely or not.

I did not, as Flight Simulator is the only MS Software that is worth keeping. Has 20 years maturity and peers testing… :-)

As for distrib you can go either Mandriva or Ubuntu.
The most easy ones for a newbie.
I started with Suse 9.3, then 10.0 but lately shifted to Mandriva 2007. No sweat.

Mail me if you are interested in my escape from the MS dungeon.

O yeah I forgot… I was once a Mac user (Powerbook) before my corporate at the time forced me in the dungeon. Guess it did nurture my rebellion cells.

Rene (now a happy feet)

http://www.dolphin-one.org/
http://www.dolphin-island.org/

Fraser Hotchkiss - February 28, 2007 @ 7:34 am

It’s bad when the company running the MMORPG I play tell their subscribers not to upgrade because they cant get the client to work with Vista. (And this game already runs on several very different platforms).

And then there’s all this DRM ****.

Label me a ‘Vista Resister’ ! Vive La Revolution !

CrackedButter - February 28, 2007 @ 7:35 am

I like how there are so many things wrong with Vista but you’ll go back to it once SP1 comes out. What other unfinished products do you buy and would recommend to your friends?

Davin S. George - February 28, 2007 @ 7:42 am

Would have to say I like using it, definitely DON’T love it though. Especially once you start running the various games on it as well. You go from running to walking and eventually crawling. Or if you’re like me lately having to reboot because thats all that solves the flickering screen problem after running Civilisation IV. And I’m NOT the only one finding this problem.

As for drivers. Why should a company HAVE to write a driver for an operating system when Microsoft will change them to certify it anyway, especially for 64BIT, its just rude! I’m sure MS will make a tonne of money ‘certifying’ 64BIT drivers, part of their game plan I’m sure. And it does take time to write a driver, and it may not be worth the time when you don’t expect people to migrate to it immediately anyway, I know I sure wouldn’t as a developer! Just not worth my or my companies time just for the sake of picking up a few extra customers when 95% of your base is using it on XP anyway.

Its an interesting OS, thats about all I’d say! But I would say I love The Register today for bringing up the petiton on the number 10 website. Come on people, sign it :-) Bring down Vista!

Cloudy Thinking » Blog Archive » Thomas Hawk on Macintosh OS-X and Windows Vista - February 28, 2007 @ 7:56 am

[…] Thomas Hawk comments on Chris Pirillo’s decision to abandon Vista. […]

Scripting News Annex - February 28, 2007 @ 9:01 am

Vista backlash [IMG] Chris Pirillo: “The shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best.” Jason Busch: “It’s an absolute travesty that Microsoft would have released such a half-baked product.”

Johnathon M. - February 28, 2007 @ 9:45 am

Whine, Whine, Whine –
Needless to say your “item list” seems to only list one real issue that has emerged as a “issue” from Microsoft itself, item 10. The list of software and hardware issues you’ve listed aren’t Microsoft issues, but clearly third party driver and software development related. Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that one day Microsoft decided to pull an OS out of their collective asses and drop it on the world. They have for the past year to six months…even more if you want to go further back, Microsoft has released betas for public testing. On MSDN various beta builds were available weekly, the driver specs and SDK was published awhile back. The ball was dropped by the vendors, especially Nivida, they can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned. You place the blame wrongly on Microsoft Chris, when the issue lises predominantly with the third party developers.

P.S. Movie maker crashes on a regular basis even in xp, but so does imovie under OSX.

Leen - February 28, 2007 @ 9:59 am

Vista is OK. Hardware vendors dropped the ball again.
It’s the usual list of sluggish companies.. HP, NVIDIA …
They try to let me buy stuff with working Vista drivers. They were right…
I bought, Samsung printer .. and ATI videocard… :-)

As you see, this time I had a chance to vote… with my wallet.

The biggest “BYE!!” is for HP. They even didn’t have XP X64 drivers so far..
For Samsung it looks Customers are of a much higher priority (the way it should be)

Enjoy !

Leen - February 28, 2007 @ 9:59 am

Vista is OK. Hardware vendors dropped the ball again.
It’s the usual list of sluggish companies.. HP, NVIDIA …
They try to let me buy stuff with working Vista drivers. They were right…
I bought, Samsung printer .. and ATI videocard… :-)

As you see, this time I had a chance to vote… with my wallet.

The biggest “BYE!!” is for HP. They even didn’t have XP X64 drivers so far..
For Samsung it looks Customers are of a much higher priority (the way it should be)

Enjoy !

Mark W - February 28, 2007 @ 10:01 am

I had a huge problem with Vista that caused me to go back to using XP instead.

As it was I was running a mirrored RAID system for XP and then on a different drive I installed Vista to be used a dual boot — My idea was that i’d gradually switch over to Vista.

Anyway Vista doesn’t recognise my RAID drivers, I guess that’s annoying but to be expected. What’s a huge problem is Vista still insists on trying to mount the drives that ae RAIDed independently thus corrupting them!!! Luckily being that the drives are mirrored they can be restaged but for god sake whatever you do don’t install Vista with striped RAIDed drives connected as you can say goodbye to your data. There also doesn’t seem to be a way to get Vista to not mount drives automatically either (disk manager is still a load of rubbish).

As it happens I do have a Mac as well before the fan boys spark up: yes it does have less compatibility problems buts that probably because half of the hardware/software I need doesn’t work on it.

DaveW - February 28, 2007 @ 10:02 am

Erm is everyone forgetting what XP was like at first. Its a fact that if you update the OS old drivers will not work for it any more. Did all your win98 drivers run under winXP? Did all your old 98 programs work under XP when you switched within a month of it’s release? Did WinXP run faster on a high end PC than win98? the answer to all of these for me is no.
Was microsoft supposed to go to every manufacturer and developer in the world and force them to make their hardware and software work under vista and get all the fixes built into Vista before it’s launch?
I had lots of driver problems at first, but a bit of searching on the net found solutions. this is exactly the same as what i had to do after the switch to XP from 98.

Al - February 28, 2007 @ 10:54 am

Sure all you geeks can get it to work, but for the common Joe, good luck. A pox on all you chumps giving Chris a hard time about being honest. Its even worse in an enterprise setting since the transition from XP to Vista needs to consider more than just the computer itself. Thats the real problem. Sure some of you chumps didn’t have a problem, either you are very good but I suspect very lucky that your individual situation worked out. This all part of Microsoft’s new angle on making money for them and their “partners”. To really get it to work you have to go out and buy all new equipment, peripherals and of course Office 2007.
Good luck but Mac OS is the best!!!

Dragun - February 28, 2007 @ 11:06 am

I have no problem with you deciding not ot use Vista, my question, why do you think the rest of the world worries about your problems?
If you had had the right equipment before Vista you would have had no problems.
I really don;t understand why people have to make such an issue one way or the other. If it work for you great, if not go to what does.
Just keep it all to yourself, no need to make it into a big deal that isn’t.

Angry American - February 28, 2007 @ 12:03 pm

People such as yourself seem to enjoy putting blame where it does not belong, and seem to have such a short memory. XP had the same problems out of the box, and the same type of people bitching now about drivers and software compatibility issues are the same that were bitching when XP came out. This is a new OS, and vendors yet again have not stepped up to the plate as of yet. Blaming the OS or the developers for these problems is idiotic.

What makes this worse is the blind followers of Chri$$y take his word as gospel and will in turn spread the misinformation to even more wanna be geeks. This in my humble opinion is the biggest problem with Lockergnome and other similar communities. A clueless leader with even more clueless followers makes for a comical but at times dangerous combination. Chri$$y you need to watch what you say, and how you say it as you are doing more damage to your reputation and to the tech world in general than you realize.

I agree that for those that need to use a computer for work, and need a stable platform that will work with legacy software that you might want to stay with XP for awhile longer. Vista will come into its own just as XP did. Anyone with any brains would have known this a long time ago and would act and speak accordingly. And the next OS from MS will cause the same growing pains. I professionally will not recommend Vista to my clients until it does come into its own, but that should not take long, within a year is my prediction.

Angry American

Angry American - February 28, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

Boy it sure doesn’t take long to be censored in this blog ;-)

Vista Rocks My Socks - February 28, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

n00b!!!! wow chris you really are a n00b. besides partial agreement on #10, i disagree with all other points of yours. The scanner thing you cant blame on vista (mine works fine! go samsung). movie maker works great for me, i dont use IPfax or lifecam, but my quickCam runs fine. i dont use Quad FX but my core 2 quad actually runs a bit faster on Vista then on XP (even with aero) so blame AMD for that one. my nvidia chipset and gfx card (680i and 8800gtx) run great, again, could be some AMD problems.. for the explorer problem, it used to happen sometimes in the whistler beta and xp, but since xp sp1 and the longhorn alpha, ive never seen those problems, so you must have messed something up. i thought you were an expert man! you should know how to fix this stuff…. lol n00b

Binary Insanity » Vista - No, Ubuntu - No, Blah - XP - February 28, 2007 @ 1:25 pm

[…] I’ve been running vista on my work machine (at home I have all Macs except for the WoW computer) for about 2 months now and finally on Monday I had just had it. I couldn’t stand all the **** that just didn’t work, wouldn’t work, and it was starting to affect my productivity. So I trashed it and went to Ubuntu. I’ve been a Linux user for years, but this D620 I use at work just couldn’t do all the stuff I wanted to do with Ubuntu. So I loaded XP back on it and I’m backup and working again. I guess I’ll just suffer along with XP until a service pack or two of Vista. Shortly after I had axed it, I read that I was not the only one. I urge you all to seriously reconsider before purchasing Vista. I like many of the changes, but there are other issues that I just find scary. […]

ZFly - February 28, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

who is Chris Pirillo?

newswireless.net .:. Blog .:. Another former Vista enthusiast gets ... - February 28, 2007 @ 1:40 pm

[…] Rage in the tech community over a well-known Vista booster, who has written pages of enthusiastic praise for the new Windows version. Apparently, this character has just burst into publication with cries of pain, having (finally) discovered that if he installs it on his PC, it doesn’t work properly.Pretty ****. Even so… he has some of my sympathy.Several of us pro hax have been discussing the difficulties of getting actual Vista release code in the last three months. Fortunately for me, I was able to write my PCW column on the basis of a few months’ time on various betas (without the assistance of the esteemed M Bisson, by the way, I’d certainly have given up!) and with the privilege of access to MSDN downloads.Despite a couple of dozen phone calls, emails and other contacts, I still don’t have the official release copy of Vista shrink-wrapped that I was assured “has already been sent” back in November.A colleague, with a bona fide commission from a Microsoft Partner publisher to prepare a book on Vista, supposedly for launch with the shrink-wrap, was reduced to begging for a disc from people with MSDN access. Microsoft simply refused to provide the software.The Editor of one magazine was invited to the launch. He explained he wouldn’t be writing the review. “That’s not the point!” said PR. “We want you there in a personal capacity.” His reporter rang up and said: “I’ll be the one writing the launch up, but you haven’t invited me…” and PR responded: “Sorry, we’ve invited the Editor. There won’t be room for hangers-on - too many TV sound crews.”On one occasion, I got to a senior Round Table meeting between hax and product managers, to discover that one well-known columnist and I were the only hax there who had copies. The PR bunnies affected to believe that copies would be sent out the next week. “Monday” they said. I’ve seen 15 Mondays since then.On the day of the launch, despite the enforced absence of literally dozens of qualified reporters with commissions to write the event up, it was discovered that the room was full of antique ex-hax who have long since left the industry, or at the least, have stopped writing for the meeja.Other tales follow a similar course. It was almost as if they did not want people to review it.In fact, I suspect back-stabbing and in-fighting between various public relations companies and simple incompetence in the dying art of press relations work, explains all.For further reading, try these cries of pain… Technorati tags:  Vista  Alter Vista? - You can discuss this article on our discussion board. […]

ElHuevon - February 28, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

Vista blows, lets just call ME Second Session (MESS). I have beta tested it for the past year and I have yet to find 1 feature that I call a “must have” Its pretty but thats what windowblinds are for, it has a faster search, thats what copernic, google desktop search and a host of others are for. Dream scene? Why? That is not worth the money. If you are working then you arent looking at the desktop!

It is slow even with the Glass turned off, more memory a separate video card, a dual core processor for an OS. For a transparent window?

To be fair I consider 2000 to be a fine OS. I turn off every goody on XP (classic start, classic search, no themes) you would swear its 2000 but its XP. Where is that feature in Vista. Yes I know they have a classic theme but its still a theme. Where is the classic search, the one that looks like 2000 search?

Here are the feature I have been waiting for in a Windows OS
Intelligent file renaming
(If linux or OSX can handle this task then great)

Window focus. when i’m typing in a window that window is the active window dont switch over to anything else

A file search that searches all files, ALL FILES and remembers that setting so that my next search it searches ALL FILES without click 2 or 3 options

Anyway I also detest IE7 and its inability to have configurable tool bars like version 6 5 and 4. If I want navigational buttons, an address bar, a google bar and links all one line I should have that option. Tabs take em or leave em but bring back my toolbar placement ability.

Thanks
PS Vista blows

WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM - February 28, 2007 @ 2:05 pm

[…] So who was telling BBC and CNN that the building was going to collapse, and how could they possibly know that, absent a deliberate demolition? Windows Vista: Im Breaking up with You I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best. I realize that other enthusiasts are leaving Windows altogether (and leaping instead to Apples OS X), but theres not yet enough momentum behind my willingness to do that. Ill leave the installs of Vista 32 and 64 on this PC, but Ill spend most (if not all) of my time back in tried-and-true Windows XP. Posted Feb 28, 2007 09:03 AM PST Category: COMPUTERS/SECURITY BBC reports on WTC7 collapse 20 minutes before it collapsed! So far the BBC’s response has been […]

Descent BB :: View topic - Upgrading to XP - February 28, 2007 @ 2:05 pm

[…] Interesting tale from one who installed Vista. Wonder if any of you have had similar experience’s? http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/.....-with-you/ […]

Vista is better than OS X - Topic Powered by eve community - February 28, 2007 @ 2:10 pm

[…] rickag Wise, Aged Ars Veteran Registered: June 26, 2000 Posts: 1084 Posted document.write(”+ myTimeZone(’Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:13:55 GMT-0800′, ‘February 28, 2007 13:13′)+”); February 28, 2007 13:13     Since I’m not by any means an expert on OS’s I’ll accept that maybe Vista is better than OS X, but at least this blogger seems to think that Vista isn’t as good as Window’s XP.The title of his article is, “Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You”, on Chris Pirillo’s website.edit: added the title and website of the article. […]

500 - Internal Server Error - February 28, 2007 @ 2:40 pm

“Over at Tom Raftery’s place, he suggests the real reason why Vista isn’t selling and quotes Chris Pirillo, who says:

Les Posen's CyberPsych Blog - February 28, 2007 @ 3:23 pm

expect) to be a steep learning curve, while still getting work done (of a fashion) using their tried and true Windows Xp setup. This is in contrast to using Vista, which is too new to claim a “tried and true” moniker, as well known Microsoft booster Chris Pirillo denotes in his blog entry today, where he laments having given Vista a good college try, but since he needs to get work done, he’s reverting to Xp. Now if someone like Chris were to ever stoop at the Mac OS X fountain and drink the Kool-Aid on offer,

Just Well Mixed - February 28, 2007 @ 3:30 pm

Quick hits and things I don’t have time to blog in full — powered by del.icio.us $7.75 (Inside Iraq) “Fighting ….. Rioting ….. Flayed nerves and hot tempers flying ….. for $7.75.”… Windows Vista: I’m Breaking Up With You (Chris Pirillo) “I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best.”… Unlocking the Mobile Phone: Why we need to go SIM-Free (All About Symbian) “How is it that Finland, a poorer, lower-density country without

Vista Backlash? | The Last Podcast - February 28, 2007 @ 3:30 pm

[…] Chris Pirillo is having some problems with Vista. Of course, the things he complaints about are mostly incompatible software and drivers (HP drivers that are known not to work yet - my 1020 Laserjet is still waiting for a Vista driver). Maybe he should have done a bit more research before upgrading. […]

Corey Gouker - February 28, 2007 @ 4:48 pm

9 should be an easy fix, it was an issue in XP and is still an issue in Vista because of the way Explorer remembers your folder settings. See this MSKB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813711

It’s been a while since I used XP but iirc the TweakUI for XP included an option to adjust the number of “bags” or folder settings. Anyway there’s the solution for that…

Rod B - February 28, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

How is SP1 going to fix your driver and 3rd party application issues?

Johnathon - February 28, 2007 @ 5:20 pm

Ha ha…He deleted my comment. Bravo!

goldplacer - MyBlogLog - February 28, 2007 @ 5:22 pm

[…] dumping Windows Vista and reverting to Windows XP (chris.pirillo.com) […]

Sunshine Kid - February 28, 2007 @ 5:42 pm

Much of what Chris said is also my experience. However, I get around the problem by using removable hard drives, thereby running whatever software OS works best for whatever application/game I plan to run, and I run them all - DOS 6.11, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista - just plug in, and if something doesn’t work particularly well on one, use another. I also do duplicated hard drives using Symantic Ghost so I can restore when the system REALLY screws up! Vista back up and running in less than 30 minutes, for example, with all programs, settings, drivers installed and working after a total meltdown.

hwo - February 28, 2007 @ 6:02 pm

I’m a Windows 2000 user, been using it since it came out. I do all my work and leisure with this OS.

I’ve never considered switching to XP, and I still don’t regret it. I still find it annoying in some areas, especially when trying to set up file sharing and network printing, and all the firewall tango, and IE displaying all those ads, and the resource hog animations… no thank you.

I boot my W2K system in 55 secs, from pushing the button until the last service finishes loading, that including SQL, .Net, ActiveSync, and others. I can live with that. I might have the hardware necessary to run Vista without any glitch. But why give away 40% or 25% or 10% of my computer’s processing power if I can work so well with this OS?

I like the boot-from-flash idea, I like new memory handling scenario, I would like to have a Flash Hard Drive in my laptop, o a hybrid one, knowing that Vista woul