Chris Benkendorf:

I watched your webcast regarding issues with Vista and your wanting to revert back to XP. My question is… what am I doing wrong or right? I feel as though I am the only one not having any real problems with Windows Vista, and I am running the 64-bit version. The only small issue I am having is that Adobe Flash Player does not have a 64-bit Flash Player, so I am running 32-bit Firefox to view flash-based websites. Visual Studio 2005 runs great, as does Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and all of my hardware. Most of the work I do on my platform is web design, software design and and putting together photo-based publications.

Hey man, if it’s working for you – great! By all means, don’t change a thing.

My NVidia 7300 GS graphics card runs well with WDDM drivers, and even my PCI video cards work better under Vista then they did in XP. I guess so far, I have been lucky with Vista. It even networks seamlessly with my XBOX 360. I HAVE been tempted many times to buy an iMac to reduce space being used in my home development studio, however, I have invested a lot of money in the PC I built for myself and the hardware I handpicked has always run very well. That being said, am I not the power user I thought I was? Do I not push Vista far enough to see what its problems are? Please fill me in. Many thanks.

If it ain’t broke for you – don’t fix it. You may be a different kind of power user, Chris. You use powerful software, and you may not care to change defaults, but when you start to look past the surface of Vista – you’ll quickly see its cracks. Vista isn’t horrible – but it really needs an SP1 before I could recommend it for everyone.

There’s more than a few users having Windows Vista Audio Problems: