Best line in the whole blog. Yes, there are too many Microsuck groupies in the house. Whats the first main function of an OS… to perform basic functions as copy and paste and allow other applications to run properly on the hardware.

This bloated sack of crap has a beautiful ‘aero’ finish but under the hood she’s a pinto. I’ve seen Vista comps stall trying to copy a gig of info from one folder to another. COPYING shouldn’t halt your OS. I dont need it to compute how much time it will take, just do the fucking copy! And yes, if you own something and it worked under XP, then by all rights it SHOULD work under Vista. Otherwise dont bother selling the fucking piece of crap to people telling them it will enhance productivity. If you have to replace all you peripherals for a damed OS upgrade to get a pretty looking calculator and constant annoying warning from your retarded computer, i dont think its productive at all.

Damn M$ money sieve. Ill stick with XP and love watching everyone with Vista cry as their harddrives burn themselves into the ground from constant process abuse.

One thing that gets me though, most of the problems seem random at best, sometimes stuff works, sometimes it doesn’t. Only one I can reproduce is updating while burning a DVD with the included burn program is an instant crash.

Vista wasn’t, isn’t, and IMHO, will NEVER be a viable solution for me. I wasn’t really tempted until my MCP/MCE buddy gave me a free copy, and talked it up so much I had to try it. Now I have even more ammo to Vista bash. It’s sad that XP/OSX/Linux are WAAAAY better than this 5 year in the making hunk of unfinished crap. They didn’t even leave in all the cool stuff.

Ubuntu is going back in it’s place, and XP will still be my music making program of choice *until I get a mac that is*

Who says it “crappy hardware” simply because it won’t work under vista?
Why the fuck shouldn’t stuff that works under xp work under vista and why the fuck should I “upgrade” to this shit simply because poor microsoft needs money?

But, none of those problems are Vista’s fault. It’s the manufacturer’s responsibility to make drivers and software that work properly on Vista.

What’s frustrating isn’t the software that won’t install on Vista. It’s the software that installs but won’t run. Runs, but unexpectedly crashes. Runs, doesn’t crash, but doesn’t work as expected, or can’t perform some function. And there’s no way to know how a given piece of software will behave on Vista before trying it.

The OS itself is a modest improvement over XP, but the third party support just sucks. IMHO, Microsoft screwed up by trying to accommodate backwards compatibility when it’s pretty obvious a clean break was called for. Apple managed this twice in the last 10 years – I don’t see why Microsoft couldn’t have pulled off the same feat. If Vista only ran software that was designed for Vista, it’d end up being a much better user experience.

For the average user, I’m sure Vista works just fine. I want to use it, but as a developer moving to a new platform is a scary thing that could completely change the way things work.

It’s also amazing that regular, real-life users have no problems with Vista, but “power users” can’t seem to come to grips with it. Kind of a switch in roles there, huh?