If Vista crashes, it’s UGLY. You lose all the data in any program running like your song list in the media player. It got so bad that even my CHKDSK program become corrupted and wouldn’t run to repair the many drive errors being caused by my graphics card over heating and turning off without warning.

The features on Vista aren’t all that.. Nothing I couldn’t do with my favorite version Windows ME. Windows seems more concerned with preventing piracy of it’s software then actually making a system that works.

The added features are mostly stolen from other applications like the brower tried hard to copy FireFox 2.0 and does a bad job of that.

The only pleasant feature of the OS is the “Dreamscene” that creates moving wallpaper but anybody that uses ME or XP could replicate this and you’ll find a lot of people using software to do it.

I do like the dreamscene… but that hardly justifies the outlay for Vista “Ultimate” that runs it.

I don’t trust the automated updates that cause more problems then they solve.. So honestly.. I use none of the features it supplies and to make my system run faster.. I turn them all off. While the security features are hefty, they end up being such a nag, you never want to use them either.. who wants to have to answer, “Do you want FireFox to run?” everytime you log onto the internet? The system is also crap if your using dail up. No support of modems comes with the vista… It’s a horrible version over all and I’d recommend anybody stay away from it.

It’s only positive is the dreamscene… everything else is pure crap. If you want an Os that won’t run half the software you’ve paid good money for… try vista.

Hope that helps.

Vista SUCKS!

Guess I’ll just stick with XP for as long as it’s feasible and then maybe switch over to BSD! Like FreeBSD or PC-BSD.

As a windows user, I’ve tried several versions of Linux but BSD seems better to me.

Microsofty has been playing the upgrade game for a long time and they now try to make it mandatory! (like directx 10 needs vista)

With windows 95, you could browse the web, do email, play games and and handle office tasks. (with office 95) Vista with Office 2007 does that stuff to… What else does it do besides looks new and shiny that makes it worth the money?

If your computer works fine, I see no reason to upgrade.

Yes, I’m probably missing Vista’s “cool” “new” “features”
(not really sure what they’ve added–probably animated BSOD’s or something). But, for some odd reason, I seem to get by without them. Probably has something to do with not needing a spellchecker, or not being a mindless but-everybody-else-has-one consumazombie, or not devoting otherwise useful hours to killing hundreds of ____ with a joystick, or maybe just not being all that interested in streaming videos of juvenile asshats sledgehammering toilets or downloading “music” that sounds like somebody killing pigs with a hatchet.

Of course, I’m not too worried about my box being secure, because I actually DID update from being a button-pushing lamer to learning how to write whatever software I need.

But, by all means, you folks just keep sending your dough to Redmond, and *enjoy* that Vista “experience”.

(Or get a Mac and join their whining clique of self-reassuring fanboys.)

(Or go with Linux and learn to read Martian.)

Cummon Microsoft, get the lead out.