Please help urgently. Im totally lost and so frustrated.
Thanks and I look forward to feedback asap

JeN Hughes

Sure wish you could articulate the difference more than “whatever”.

I have no interest in Vista. Should I?

Here’s what I would consider an upgrade from XP:
(1) more efficient (smaller and/or faster)
(2) more stable
(3) more transparent (i.e. better administration tools for diagnosing and resolving issues).

Does that sound like Vista? Give all the reports I’ve heard from the front lines, that sounds like the OPPOSITE of Vista.

I do think Vista has improved considerably with SP1 though.

I have had so many incompatiblity issues with vista software on my new Compaq PC – there is not the space or time to dwell on it anymore.
I have eventually sorted out my ipod but other hardware has been impossilble to add (driver downloads do not help).
My latest problem is installing the new version of AOL (with a new NETGEAR modem) – I have internet access but no direct broadband link to aol) – They say that everything is up and running from their end – so any tips would be welcome.
My new printer is also having problems along with my new USB memory device, digital camera etc..
I even reinstated my old tower with windows XP- but the modem didn’t take. Plodding onwards – retried vista – but to no avail.
My new PC is sluggish to the point of 1999 and I am one frustrated lady!
This is all a shame really – I cannot appreciate the new vista software at all.

Alison

Answers anybody?

Please don’t say “you should have bought a mac – I know that now….

I repost here what I recently posted somewhere else, about my disillusioned conversion process from MS, plus added some…

As more I hear from people about their huge disappointment from Vista, and as I learn more about all the various new DANGERS that comes from using it – especially the freedom-of-information wise issue (for example, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6325353.stm ), I am becoming more determined in my wish to let others to know more before they make this crucial decision of choosing Vista as their OS. I think that a OS needs to work as less as possible in the background, not to be the center of attention as if the only reason to USE a PC is to admire the new curves and translucent effects. this approach is unforgivable, and crossing all red lines, at least for me. Who says that code cannot be efficient? Who says that a OS must be rushed into development just to hit the market prior to OSX 10.5 aka Leopard? I say, as an ex-programmer and current filmmaker, that any OS MUST maintain simplicity, and Microsoft just lost it, they are the ones that became arrogant, and greedy. I have the feeling that within a few years, it might leave Microsoft positioned in the market in a such way, that it would be famous mostly for its Office software; maybe they will sell the Windows devision in a similar way to IBM who sold its laptops devision to Lenovo. Anyway, Apple IS a serious candidate to gain control very rapidly within this changing market, and they are not so arrogant as they used to be. Mac is not for some snobbish elite anymore. It is already Apple Inc., that means mainstream products like iPods and iPhone. The Mac with its steadily developed OSX is going to the same direction, and the first step is of course Boot Camp, which is a knock out even to the most fanatic Microsoft addicts.

Like you, I admired Microsoft for years, since the DOS times, and was very happy with XP, including all its endless problems. I convinced myself that it’s part of life. I was so so wrong. I got to know Apple through my film school’s lab, where we edit our films on Final Cut with iMacs, and it took me almost a year to get used to OSX, and yes, it isn’t perfect, but a completely different world, I can tell you this. I decided that my next laptop would be MacBook, and since I have purchased it, I have no regrets, only joy, because I got rid of my Windows addiction at last. And when i “miss” XP, I can run it natively, or via Parallels Desktop in a window, or even better, in COHERENCE mode, but lately I do it less and less. Microsoft just sucks. period. I played with my friend’s Vista computer for some time and it is worse than hell on earth. It needs super fast computer just to get started, it is so complex, confusing, and not straight forward at all. Like a maze of endless sub menus, and with the same old problems, only many times more complicated to solve. I was able to use torrents, but the machine, a brand new “Vista Certified”, is getting so slow, that even the screen saver barely works, with 1Gb of RAM, by the way. It isn’t an operating system, it is a battle field of functions, restrictions, limitations, and useless graphical eye blinding gimmicks. I can’t imagine doing more complex stuff like music, or god save us, film editing. F*** it, anything else is better, even “good old” XP, which soon will disappear, of course, or Linux. But i truly think that Apple’s OSX is the best thing around. Not perfect, but decent, functional and intuitive. The only 3 times I needed to restart my machine in the past couple of weeks of intensive work, including demanding processing of HDV material, rendering effects and all you can imagine, was, you guessed it right, when Windows crashed. Thanks, but no more Windows for me. No more, for ever.

P.S – running XP in VM within Vista is the most ridiculous thing I have heard, and if Microsoft will listen to your advice it would be like admitting they screwed it completely with Vista. It’s like running DOS inside a VM within Windows 95 or 98. Absurd! So what about: running XP within Vista WITHIN OSX? How does this sounds? awesome or what?? There is absolutely no reason to stay in love with a company that crossing all the red lines and stop-loss limits. Why would I bother with Vista when I can have XP working on MAC until the point that I will no longer need it? It would be very soon, I hope, probably with OSX 10.5.

I got a new, fast machine with 2 GB of RAM and I absolutely, totally hate Vista. There is nothing in this lousy, incompetently created and coded OS that anyone could possibly miss.

This thing regularly crashes when its OWN, BUILT-IN e-mail client is started. It crashes with almost everything else as well. I have never sees as many blue screens of death in 15 years of using computers, as I have seen in TWO days of using Windows Vista Home Premium.

Although XP wasn’t perfect, it was a much better and more stable operating system.

I will probably return the whole machine to the store and exchange it for one of the few remaining refurbished XP units, rather than going through the hassle of reinstalling Windows XP. It will probably be worth to have to pay the usual 15 percent restocking fee to get rid of Vista.

What doesn’t cease to amaze me is the fact that all of the computer manufacturers have so readily jumped on the bandwagon and are eagerly offering this inferior OS and the many apologists, who actually have either the gall (or are just plain stupid) to say that Vista isn’t perfect, but it is still pretty good. What crud!!!