Comments on: Three Reasons Why Windows Vista Is Sinking Like A Rock

By: reilyclecauck

reilyclecauck — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:30:47 +0000

Tahnks for posting

By: Big Al

Big Al — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:48:10 +0000

After upgrading to vista from xp you can’t revert back because xp will not validate? What the hell is that about? Looks like you better have your mind made up once you take the plunge! Microsoft what your selling I ain’t buying!
I am looking to buy a new laptop so goodbye microsoft hello Mac! Oh by the way your an asshole!

By: Mike Cinquanti

Mike Cinquanti — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:42:27 +0000

Well, people are clearly pissed. When people feel a real sense of loss or a lack of options, they tend to lose some of their perspective and grace. Many people feel like Vista is being crammed down their throats and that there is something terribly wrong with it, and perhaps even that there is “no going back” if MS gets away with it.
I will never personally purchase a copy of Vista, because I object to the company which I have given A LOT OF MONEY over the years treating its users like criminals or morons who need to be kept in line by force. The whole relationship of the user to the OS is wrong.
When you stop to consider the digital millennium copyright act, you will see the kind of junk law that never would have held up historically when we were a nation of laws, for the people, dedicated to a democratic world view. In effect, whoever produces content has usurped the right to legislate without appeal or over site or even explanation. In the case of the music industry, they have also usurped the authority to execute judgment. In other countries, there are agencies dedicated to protecting consumers existing fair use rights and interests. No more here. Junk law has been rammed through which considers only the interest of special interest lobbyists, with no checks or balances upon it. MS was never able to win in court what they have imposed by technical constraints. In time this becomes precedent and accepted. Consumers – you have to look out for yourselves now, because nobody else is minding the store. The fuddy dudies who make the law are clueless or corrupt.
DRM has become offensive, intrusive and compulsory. It interferes with legitimate use. Pay attention and make good choices. Blue ray disk? Just like the CD ROM itself, it did not take over the market because it was the best product or choice for consumers. It was introduced as a copy protection scheme. Yes, people get together and have meetings about these things and then tell us (the consumer) what we want. Educate yourselves.
Mac is an excellent (if expensive) alternative. Linux is an excellent alternative (if more geared towards the techies). A careful analysis of the costs involved in going Mac might surprise you though. It may just end up as a net savings.
The best software was developed in academic environment, as collaborative exercise, with peer review. This has been historically true and it is still true. Would mandatory DRM be included in such an open source project, especially if it interfered with legitimate use and made the system run like crap? Clearly not. Consumers are paying a price and business is paying a price, and furthermore democracy is paying a price. There is an unnoticed crisis brewing in US business today related to the expense and return on expense associated with IT. Companies like Microsoft are making this problem much worse. Other side effects include outsourcing. We need to think hard and carefully about how we are going to protect intellectual property, because clearly those who have been running the show thus far haven’t done an acceptable job.

By: kap

kap — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:02:11 +0000

Vista is the most annoying os I have ever had, XP ME 95 etc. I have had very little luck installing any of my commonly used software on it. I wish there was a valid, strong competitor out there! Maybe it is time for a MAC

By: Ken Buckley

Ken Buckley — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:29:22 +0000

we live “down under”, I bought vista for the promises of a “better system”..
I am glad I am not hanging by my nuts for the valid system to arise…
I am totally pissed off, because not only with all the driver problems that were every way you turned for 95 % of my existing programs, but the imbeciles, won’t allow me to run my Visual Studio Pro 6, on the machine, nor will Visual Studio 2005, run the Visual Studio projects, unless I convert all my code.

WTF are they doing, do they sell a product, supposedly “advanced”, which does not have backward compatability with 99.99% of my existing software and in some instances hardware..

Typical Microsoft arrogance, a law unto themselves, legends in their own minds, arrogant deceptive thieves.?, I wonder.

They can shove their Vista,”down Under”, up theirs..

When they develope an acceptable attitude towards their clientelle, and produce a more valid and viable os , in the name of vista, then maybe they will gain back some of their loyal clientelle that abandoned them for the act of being abandoned by MS… Bend over Bill, and u betta brace yourself…

By: xenxen

xenxen — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:10:01 +0000

would anyone recommended Sony Dual Core laptop with Mac OS X? I also need to run XP as a virtual Machine so I can play some of the DirectX game. Right now I bought the laptop that come with Vista and I install VMWare/XP. I would love to give Mac OS a shot.

By: xenxen

xenxen — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:00:37 +0000

Vista sucks, I have to press the power button too many times because of program not responding. And it is their own software like MSN live and their own explorer. On XP all I do is bring up task manager, kill and start a new one. On Vista the power button seems to be the only option. What a piece of shit!!!

By: Di

Di — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:44:49 +0000

Hmmm, I can see that there are a lot of M$ spindoctors here who are still determined to force-feed the crappy-excuse-of-an-OS that Vi$ta is down people’s throats. Oh please, your slick marketing lingo isn’t fooling anyone Nick Rice–the Wow moments people are having over Vi$ta are “Wow, what a load of crap!” and “Wow, what a waste of money and time”.

It is simply not worth it to spend that much money and effort for an OS that is unstable when you can buy better alternatives for half that price. You can save yourself a lot of money–and headaches–by using XP, Linux or a Mac OS: aside from being cheaper and more stable than Vista, these operating systems also run more efficiently than the power and hardware-hungry Vi$ta. So you don’t have to chuck out all that hardware and buy more expensive parts, because your computer already works just fine with these operating systems.

M$ should just focus its time fixing crappy Vi$ta, and then work on creating a truly useful OS that really delivers–instead of exerting all its efforts hyping up and making sorry excuses for its products that do not give consumers what they paid for.

By: Zardoz

Zardoz — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:08:52 +0000

Microshit is definitely not the consumers friends and never was…I am HIGHLY suspect of any code written with the help of the NSA…we are living in the New World Order and the people who are in control will be the ultra-rich..such as Gates..how will they stay in Control? by cooperating with Goverment agencies desighned to limit and control freedom..where is most freedom expressed..on the internet…DRM…and all these other contraptions will be used under the hood if possible to fuck the worlds free and poor…

By: Borno

Borno — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:53:44 +0000

When i first heard of vista i was really looking forward to it because of the visuals. Now after reading these reviews and actually trying vista i am now going to stick with my dell with xp until i have enough money for a MacBook Pro. if there are any Microsoft employees posing here tell bill gates to go FUCK HIMSELF and not put consumers through this shit he calls vista!!!