News General resistance to Windows Vista

Maybe MS now made new OS similar to XP...
People more like XP than Vista...so do I...
 
I just like whatever will work and not crash....I should have bought a mac.
 
Well, I'll be suffering with Vista until Windows 7 comes out, or until I completely migrate back to XP. If Windows 7 is a failure I can see a massive switch to Linux and Mac OS in the future.
 
Was there any reason that this couldn't go in the thread already talking about the same thing?

And PaulG: if you want to be unable to run 90% of the best games out there, sure, switch to a Mac.
 
I think a big reason people are unhappy with Vista is that all anyone wanted was a 64bit XP that would be good with multicores. What we got instead was that, but it has too many bugs (on account of being new) and pointless graphical upgrades that waste resources.

I think Mircosoft wanted to give people a reason to upgrade to Vista, which is why they put extra crud in there that broke it.

Oh well, a service pack or two from now Vista should be rock solid.
 
Funny, I just caved in and installed Vista on my home PC and notebook, replacing an XP SP3 installation on both.
 
Ah, perhaps, but most of my work involves photo/video editing.

Hielor said:
Was there any reason that this couldn't go in the thread already talking about the same thing?

And PaulG: if you want to be unable to run 90% of the best games out there, sure, switch to a Mac.
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well get Adobe CS4 that has all the video editors you could ever need
 
PaulG said:
Ah, perhaps, but most of my work involves photo/video editing.
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All of which can be done well enough on either a PC or Mac, with some possible preference for Mac due to software selection.

Frankly, 80-90% of computer users could just as easily use either a PC or a Mac (or Linux, for that matter). The other 10% are limited by what they do with the computer, and they know which one they need. For me, I'm a gamer, so I need a PC.
 
And PaulG: if you want to be unable to run 90% of the best games out there, sure, switch to a Mac.
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Allthough me and my Wife are re-enacting the PC vs. Mac struggle on a regular basis (she's a mac-user) I have to give the new Macs credit for being able to run Windows on a parallel instalation at least as good as a PC. And you can run practically all games on such a parallel instalation. So it really isn't a problem anymore to have a Mac-environment for work and a Win-environment for games on the same machine.

Still, I prefer my PC, where I can just rip out about anything and put other stuff in if I want to. Hell, my Tower-Case is at least 8 years old by now, and my HDD is the only thing still installed that was with it from the start. So is the OS. But somehow it all works! :lol:
 
I don't like Vista. I waste my money on a resource hungry OS. I do have a decent PC. It is not about performance I complain. It is all the nagging that is getting me down. I describe Vista as a beautiful resource hungry clumsy pig! :lol:
XP had stood the test of time. I hope Windows 7 will make up for Vista.
 
Vista will go down in history as the second worst O/S. The title still is claimed by Windows ME.
 
So I put together a machine with an ASUS striker extreme mobo, 4 gigs Ram, Nvidia 8800 GTX oc and I get a 24 inch HD monitor with a side flat pannel for tools... I do graphic design... I do the next logical thing and buy Vista ultimate (because I run a business and play at the same time)... Vista never worked on it... the video driver is crashed by vista... they know about this and never fixed it.. or can't. now they will do like on Millenium edition and forget about the MILLLIONS the collected from retarded hopefuls (like myself) and move on to further collect more millions... I have migrated back to XP64 and the machine runs great... but no DX10 which my card is supposed to be made for.
So now windows 7.... yeah... I think it might be several years before I consider getting it... unless the reviews are desisively positive midterm after release...
IMHO windows 2k SP4 was the best windows will ever have. I was never happier than with it. So much so that in my bedroom machine I use it still to manage my network and play... and work... etc.
 
Omhra said:
Vista never worked on it... the video driver is crashed by vista... they know about this and never fixed it.. or can't.
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Microsoft cannot fix a video driver that they did not develop: remember that video drivers are developed by the video card vendors, such as nVidia and ATI (now owned by AMD). If your video driver is crashing, it is either a bug in nVidia's video driver or a hardware problem, neither of which is Microsoft's fault. Be sure you are running nVidia's latest driver for your card; you can download it here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
 
dbeachy1 said:
Microsoft cannot fix a video driver that they did not develop: remember that video drivers are developed by the video card vendors, such as nVidia and ATI (now owned by AMD). If your video driver is crashing, it is either a bug in nVidia's video driver or a hardware problem, neither of which is Microsoft's fault. Be sure you are running nVidia's latest driver for your card; you can download it here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
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Nvidia's latest drivers for my ancient GF 6100 are crap. I have to use the old 2007 release to even be able to change my screen resolution. It's ironic...

Anyway, I am so annoyed of people blaming Microsoft for things such as software incompatibilities. How do people expect Microsoft to update software they haven't developed? That's not the OS's job.
 
I certainly don't blame MS for software incompatibilities. Especially personal software, I'm quite simply not worried about that sector at all since most I use is constantly evolving. I'll probably lose a few relics of software I'm a bit fond of. But no matter what the future has in store it's guaranteed to happen sooner or later no matter how good a system is.

I think I'm pretty much decided that I may as well go for it and just see what I get next time I build my computer. I'd rather give Windows 7 plenty of time after it's initial release before I board that train to ensure it'll be at it's best.
 
As a musician, Vista is useless to me. The built in DRM (Protected Path) prevents me from using any low latency drivers, signal re-routing, and half a dozen other things I do on a regular basis. It is absolutely unusable for a Digital Audio Workstation. Since I can play games fine on XP (the only thing I use Windows for, I consider it my "toy" operating system) I see no reason to use Vista whatsoever.
 
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