Comments on: Vista lies, damn lies, and lies

By: Arnaldo

Arnaldo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:39:18 +0000

We all be riding Vista?? Think it twice! I guess Windows is the only OS a PC can run!! What about linux? What about buying a mac? Vista sucks thats why the US Army Servers changed to mac! US ARMY sucks too but that an important data there because they get so many attacks

By: Arnaldo

Arnaldo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:37:17 +0000

You turn that off, what do you have??? Windows XP?? why upgrade then, vista is a bad os, try using Leopard for once or Ubuntu @ least

By: Arnaldo

Arnaldo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:35:43 +0000

LOL Mouse drive! that whats Vista its all about, problems

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:38:07 +0000

The Federal Government has not qualified Vista to be used or purchased by government employees or facilities. Cost and Reliability.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:12:04 +0000

Just throwing this out there, but people complained about XP being a resource hog when it first came out. Now they love it forever.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:39:06 +0000

Vista sucks, thats why Im using Mojave now. Way way better!

By: Paul G

Paul G — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:24:31 +0000

Vista is not so bad once you turn off all the things that make it Vista – UAC and Aero.

The biggest problem with Vista is that the spec required to run it is much higher than what the average PC person owns. Turning off those features, gets you to something close to well XP.

By: Winklereed

Winklereed — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:55:10 +0000

Vista is excellent: not a single problem in the 18 months I have used it! I wonder what you are doing to it, John ….

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:35:26 +0000

Definitely. Its a stupid problem. But is that Microsoft’s fault? I mean, I guess it is to an extent, and its a stupid problem that frankly shouldn’t be an issue. But some, perhaps most, of the fault lies with Kensington for not bringing all their drivers up to date.

That was honestly the only mouse I tried, and it is a few year’s old. I don’t know how widespread the issue is. Since I tend to stick to Kensington mice, I hope its not an issue for lots of their stuff, since I plan on finally upgrading my notebook soon.

Otherwise, the Vista experience was a pleasant one. I didn’t hit it too hard testing, but it seemed fine for all the simple things. And iTunes, Ad-aware, and Firefox all ran fine on it. And certain things, like internet Outlook support, were much improved (not that that means much – I’m pretty sure I could code a better interface than they used in XP).

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:27:34 +0000

A mouse driver issue? That’s like a car having a steering wheel issue. I think that kind of helps us understand the general malaise.

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:53:57 +0000

I said it in a previous post, and I’ll say it again. Vista isn’t as bad as it used to be. Once you disable UAC, anyways.

I tried it a year ago and hated it. Tried it again a few weeks ago, and found it to be a surprisingly pleasant experience. Had a mouse driver issue, but other than that, it worked fine.