What's wrong with Vista?

[jerrinfla]

Vista is the entire reason that I switched to a mac. XP wasn't bad at all and honestly by the time Vista came out it was a pretty solid platform.
The only OS that even comes close to the abysmal quality of Vista was ME, also a complete money making scheme.
I'm not sure why anyone is suprised however. When you run a company the size of Microsoft and develop an OS with hundreds, if not thousands, of different components built by developers who only work on their piece of the puzzle without collaboration until just before rollout... What do you expect?
For the record XP was great and Outlook is much better then anything else I have found. With that said, and keeping in mind that I am far from a Mac geek, the Mac OS is so far superior it is ridiculous.
I doubt Microsoft will ever get me back.

I'm currently running XP. 64 bit Vista, and 64 bit Linux Ubuntu. I don't see problems with anything other than Ubuntu not running happily along with Compiz and my ATI 3300 on board graphics adapter. I even ran Vista on an ancient socket A box with a half a gig of ramand it ran fine. I think I'd be happy with Linux if it weren't for DRM issues, but sheesh - what is the apeal of Mac? It's like twice the price of a PC, and nowadays it isn't much more than a dumbed down version of Linux, with less software available for it. If all I'm going to do is use Office (MS or otherwise) and browse the internet, how could Vista or XP possibly be lacking? Please don't take this as an attack - if you are doing more than that with your Mac please tell me what you're doing. I might be impressed enough to buy one, and that would be good for Apple.

 

[jerrinfla]

Yeah, I'm RAM fat and I don't have any problems running Vista, but, being a resource hog, it could slow down a locomotive screaming down the track. those statements in the original post are marketing statements intended to make people buy Windows 7 (everybody already knew that, right?). One of our IT techs keeps challenging me to install windows 3.1 - he claims I will never, ever, even see an hourglass!

Eh - a lot of programs that ran like a dream on Windows 3.1 with state of the art hardware were unable to install at all come the new large hard drives. My memory is so bad I can't remember - what was a breakthrough in 1995 or so, 250 megabytes?