Trust me I was forced to work with Vista and it was a nightmare. Hardware will stop working or suddenly control panel get disabled because I apply latest security update to Nvidia graphics card.
Now Windows vista is in top ten terrible tech products list:
Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor's reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that takes six years of development but is instantly hated by hordes of PC professionals and enthusiasts deserves to be classed as terrible technology.
I just hope this project get over and I can through out Windows Vista :D
I bet 90% of you people saying windows vista sucks never even used it! As a computer tech I often ask people that and it comes down to either
1. They have never used it, but have heard bad things about it.
2. Are using 10 year old hardware (WHAT DO YOU EXPECT MORONS! You expect a 10 year old pc to run a brand new OS?)
I ran vista from when it was in beta up until windows 7 beta, and even ran a STABLE website off it! The ONLY problem it had was the gigabit lan issue while using audio.
Also you people who claim you have been working on computers your whole life and say windows vista is the worst are clearly liars since Windows ME was a complete disaster, it was more unstable than mac fan boys.
Bottom line is that you computards need to stop spreading lies and talking about something you don’t understand.
I.T. professional for 8 yrs.
Have Vista on my gaming rig for 2 yrs now . Also have an XP box (hardware fail but otherwise great) and Win7 box. All hardware on the Vista box up to specs. Vista box was actually overkill i7 system w/6GB RAM (and upgradable to 12GB). Have had to support Vista boxes in the district I am presently assigned to, and behaved similar behavior there as home box.
I can categorically confirm that Vista is horrific. It fails to understand any removable media not on its HCL, including some generic FLASH DRIVES, for crying out loud; simplest tech ever and it chokes. Vista has a habit of KILLING external devices’ filesystems if it trips over them in it’s own convoluted thought processes.
I have never had an XP box lock dead because someone put a valid and undamaged CD in the CDROM bay, but Vista does it quite often. Any little scratch on a DVD movie causes a dead OS lock requiring hard-shut-off which, if memory serves, was the sort of thing NT was supposed to have fixed back in the 90′s.
Security subrocessor chronically un-validates the OS when various apps get upgrades (seriously? an app upgrade counts as a critical system rewrite?)
This is coming from someone who would otherwise say Macs are far worse (as I have to fix them day in and day out), but Vista is hands-down the worst OS ever.
LOL that was supposed to read “and observed similar behavior there as home box”.
Not enough sleep makes for typos!
writ you’r own operating system like we had to do with commodore vic 20 wingers!
My dad went out and bought an Acer Aspire laptop that only had 512 Mb of RAM, and it had Vista and it was terrible, you could only use it for a few hours before you had to restart the stupid thing. It was slow, and the Vista OS took up half the HD space so there wasnt any place we could save our files in. But i have used almost all OS’s out there, and Vista is the worst yet…
My dad got a HP pavillion dv6000 that ran Windows Vista Buisness and it was great! It’s not the operating system that made the laptop bad, it was your hardware. By the way, Windows Me is the worst ever, not Vista!
Millenium was fail, but it was managable with updates. It was LIMITED in scope (gawd help the tech who had to dig into network configs to find half of the beloved command options were missing or changed), but it did in fact run. Ran like a dog, but it ran. Never killed an external device on me, never deadlocked from a CDROM,. . Ran OK except being limited and having ZERO security (which could be fun, if someone else was using the system >.> )
I’v been using windows vista for four years or ever since it came out and I loved it. It is an amazing operating system but I started hating it since last month. It first crashed and I had to reinstall it and it I lost a project that I was working on for over 4 months but I know some of you might blame it on me that I didn’t back up or whatever but here is another thing that happened….One day I turned on the computer and it was like the copy of windows vista is not genuine. Not that is not possible because the OS came installed on the laptop already. Also when I put the activation code that is on the vista sticker on the bottom of the laptop, it says invalid code. I don’t like windows 7 though. I don’t want to upgrade to windows 7 because the interface of it kind of pisses me. It is easy to use but I don’t feel comfortable with the interface of windows 7. Also no way I am going back windows xp because I hated the guts of that operating system. I know some of you might say it was the best but I really hate it and would rather get windows 7 than xp back. Now if it was somehow possible from microsoft to give us windows 7 but with the user interface and every of vista but the OS itself and its coding and stuff 7, then that would be awesome and I would get it right away. That is why I think I will go with apple. Apple doesn’t crash and the Mac OSX is my second favorite after vista and I find it very easy to use and the interface very comfortable to me.
Even Microsoft admitted they rushed Vista out as an unfinished and not well planned out product and was terrible so any “computer tech” like darcwolf who claims otherwise is obviously a very incompetent, clueless computer tech who you shouldn’t let near your machine if you want it to carry out on working. There’s lots of idiots like him about messing up computers for other people while claiming they are experts. One of the tell-tale signs that they are an idiot is when they claim an OS is great that hundreds of thousand of real IT experts all over the world says is crap and even the vendor admitted was crap! It’s common knowledge that Vista was crap darcwolf and this had nothing to with the hardware it was running on but the badly designed and written code you computard!!
Agreed! My Vista was running terribly with 80% free space and no viruses. When I ran a check on it it eliminated my file on a book I worked on for two years. I saved that file to flash before running the check so I had it still-at that point. I then moved the file from flash to desktop and poof! Both disappeared and is no longer retrievable. I lost two years of labor due to Visata dn even after taking precautions. It’s diabolical!!! darcwolf’s full of it.
Yep thumbs down for it…Crashes, then tells you it needs updating – then crashes whilst updating, On a brand new HP, The shop wouldnt even supply an original hard disk image for me to restore, blaming it on us for not creating restore disks, which couldn’t be made for vista crashing in the first place. Oh aye that Vista licence key has been passed from machine to machine that I build and each one crashing on updating and telling us it needs updating!!!
No you are the computard …
I had purchased a brand new computer that had windows vista .. WHAT A NIGHTMARE
I also have one with windows xp
and I have a mac pro…
Windows Vista constantly freezes on me and crashes, low memory comes up daily ,
I am so tired from having to unplug the computer just to get off a screen.
Worst I ever used wish I had never bought it …Total Garbage !!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you computard if you liked it so much why did you not purchase the crap
after your beta…