Comments on: Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:43:15 +0000

woo go the FUD machine.

boohoo my 6 year old scanner wont work in vista….time to move on buddy

By: Starlite528

Starlite528 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:05:27 +0000

WOOOOOO

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By: Vista more bugs than the underside of a 100 year old log

Vista more bugs than the underside of a 100 year old log — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:02:56 +0000

Hate is an understatement. I despise this operating system, literally.

I was one of the earlier adopters and after forking over much tango denero to buy this sorry excuse for an operating system, I some came to realize it would be littered with more bugs a 400 year-old wooden porch. Crashes occured daily, blue screens. You name it. And that is not even considering the lack of driver support. This GIGO operating system found ways to surprise me in a bad way.

So I waited patiently, thinking SP1 would save the day. Last week, I installed SP1, only to have this operating system show me new blue screens of frozen tundra. Crashing daily, sometimes twice a day. Is now quite common.

Gates, give me back my damn money! You should be paying me to use this!

By: problems

problems — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:19:31 +0000

so i thought keeping up to date would be a good idea… i installed windows vista and omg. had a lot of compatibility problems to start off with… so NM. i switched back to XP on the same day.

By: ThaTweaker

ThaTweaker — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:37:16 +0000

windows vista sucks i had mine for 3 weeks and it just turned off and never came back on

By: Windows XP

Windows XP — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:15:43 +0000

I totally agree on this! Vista gives me so many problems its unbelievable! I thought it would be perfect and the top of the line, new OS, but its just a piece of crap Windows 95/98 but it has a nice theme. Thats all it has if you ask me! If I could choose what Microsoft sells, I would say “Everyone, use Windows XP!”

By: Jessica Clark

Jessica Clark — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:25:23 +0000

I tried Vista and I couldn’t get my work done.

By: Vista Pasta

Vista Pasta — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:08:25 +0000

Joe, i feel the exact same way as you, i knew there would be “teething problems” with vista, but i thought i would give it a while then try it out, from what i have read here, nothing has changed…

often i try install something like in point 2, the installer just hangs and crashes????

Try dual booting with xp and ubuntu, for me, it is the best option?

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:10:16 +0000

Appologies for the poor spelling. Im using an ergo-style keyboard and have trouble with it!

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:07:40 +0000

I am a happy Macbook Pro user. I am also a .NET developer and have been using windows and VS.NET on bootcamp/VMWARE/Parallels for some time now. I recently decided that I couldnt justify the harddrive space and reduced speed just to run another OS on the same machine…So I purhcased a new laptop for work purposes.

Vista was preinstalled on my shiny new windows laptop, as with all machines these days. I found myself excited to try this semi new OS. It hjas been out for a while so I fugured alot of the driver issues etc would be ironed out by now.

Oh how WRONG I was!
My road to upgrading to XP: (the OS that I wanted to get away from int he first place, hence the mac purchase!)

1./Install Visual Studio 2008. (Im a contracter so need new version of most thingas to stay current.). Installer just hangs for hours and crashes.
2./ Install .NET frame work 3.5 stand alone installer. Failed.
3./ restart laptop. Vista exlporer opens in low resolution. I am unable to change it back!
4./Restart. System goes into restore mode. Crashes
5./Give up. Upgrade to XP

Quite simply, I dont care to fis these problems myself by tinkering about with vista. I dont want to wait for service packs. I dont care if ‘All new versions of windows and other OS’s have issues’, I just want it to work! It doesnt!. It wouldnt be so bad if it hadnt come preinstalled. This means that ‘Out of the box’ most vista machines are ‘Faulty’ (as far as Im concerned).

Anyway, XP works a treat. Indeed, better than it ever did on older hardware and these days, after 20 million updates, its rock solid (pretty much). I seem to remember Windows ME have similar issues and that dies a death. Will Vista go the same way?

By: Schmal001

Schmal001 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:33:15 +0000

Microsoft needs to make what the users want. They can’t just go out and say here it is now live with it! I also have a bad feeling windows se7en is not going to go over well. They need to start from scratch and leave Vista behind! Don’t make it look like vista or even seem like it! Give it a whole new logo, look and programs. I’m trying to make my OS user based, and I think thats what Microsoft needs to do as well.

By: Phil P

Phil P — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:09:13 +0000

Well, I waited and waited to install this with the service pack only moments away I figured I would give it a shot It’s been a year drivers should have caught up right? – bought upgrade copies from Compusa when they went out of business for each of my machines that legally run windows XP. Tried to install with a clean install of Vista Ultimate it would not activate. Called the help center to activate by phone – no luck after 6 attempts – they gave me a number for paid support – Doesn’t MS have enough of my money? I am currently doing an upgrade over my upgrade (so now I will have 2-copies of Ultimate installed on the same machine) – to see it this will activate – it appears it does not like the fact that I formatted the partition before I started – If I have a Windows XP product key – isn’t MS bright enough to know when a copy is upgraded? The XP key I used for the upgrade will no longer check-in for updates. They burned cycles on My XP machine every time I did updates to make sure my copy was legal with genuine advantage – what’s the point? All of this adds up to the Ultimate disappointment. Hurray it finally activated – do I need to re-install the updates from the first install?, why is my anti-virus no-longer working after the second install? It was working after the first install. Now have two copies of Vista installed on the same machine – seems to me like one copy would be a waste of disk space all by itself.

I feel like a loser.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:44:25 +0000

I have tried Vista for 2 weeks. I should have downgraded right away. My wife tried it the first day and hated every moment of it. Too bad Dell doesn’t give you the option to downgrade. What the heck, when I am typing this, some of my keys are not being registered. Must b a indows Vista problem.

I am gingto try BUTNU