As for performance, I don’t know what anyone’s complaining about. My system is three years old, and running with 1gb of memory and Vista runs as well as XP did. I was worried at first, especially with the beta, that my system wouldn’t run Vista well at all, and I got a shock. It runs great. The networking is fantastic, and the media center also works flawlessly.

As for the security notices, I haven’t even had any issues with that at all. I got the notices right after the install, and since then only when I install a new program that wants to connect to the internet. And I can hardly complain about the system notifying me of that. No viruses, no spyware, in months.

I use my system for desktop publishing and design, and so I call BS on the guy above who said you can’t be confident that printed output on Windows will look as it does on screen. It does. But it convinces me that a lot of the complaints about Vista come from people who have never used it, or know absolutely nothing at all about computers.

The OS is fine. I’m sure some people prefer Leopard or Linux, but their obsession with trashing Vista (ignorantly, I might add), says more about them than about Vista. I mean, have you ever tried to explain a Linux install to someone not experienced with computers? Compared to Linux, Vista is a breeze.

What a load of crock.

“Over a year ago I screamed about how Vista was going to not even be the slightest bit more secure than Windows XP. I was wrong, dead wrong. Windows Vista has turned out to be even less secure than Windows XP. Why? Simple. Two words; Nag Screen”

I’m still waiting on your promised viruses and trojans that would render my computer useless, with or without UAC. I haven’t had a virus since I installed Vista on my computers (about a month after launch day). Also isn’t it funny how Vista hasn’t been out for a year yet the title of the article is ‘a year later and windows vista is still not worth it’. Ah, so he’s been pretending to know something about Vista since before it’s launch, since before he even used it first hand. That should blow his credibility out of the water already.

“Although I would normally be the first one to say progress is good even if it has a few bumps along the way the situation with Vista is just way out of control. The reality with Vista is you really can’t expect to upgrade a system to the OS without encountering significant problems with legacy hardware and software support.”

Bullshit. I’ve upgraded numerous computers to Vista and each one has ran absoloutely fine with legacy drivers (granted my most recent upgrade needed drivers because there was no 16:10 support but it was no more than a simple download). If you sincerely want to use legacy drivers for your hardware forever then you are in fact a luddite and should buy an OEM system and STFU. Considering the range of hardware Vista is compatible with its competition (Linux/OS X) looks like a joke. I’m sorry but there really isn’t a better alternative, blame whoever you want, but Vista has the ability to run the largest combination of hardware any consumer could ever want.

“Not a huge issue for the preverbal college student or home user this quickly becomes a show stopper for corporations trying to run older software.”

Older software? Is this guy for real? I have no backwards compatibility problems with any of my software, even the ones MIcrosoft said wasn’t supported in Vista (Visual C++/C# Express/XNA) ran fine for the longest time until Microsoft officially said ‘yes we now support it’. This is in sharp contrast to some of Microsofts competition that have not been able to retain the sheer backwards compatibility Microsoft has. As it stands I don’t think there is a single piece of software out there that will work on XP but not Vista.

“Still my biggest gripe is the complete and utter lack of quality video drivers for many mainstream cards. What ever happened to video games and hardcore gamers driving the market? Quick update for you: they don’t run Vista! Right now any gamer running most off the shelf games is still fragging away on XP (and very happy doing it).”

WTF? Are you stil living in the launch window where nVidia still hadn’t gotten around to releasing drivers for the 8800GTX? Right now if you want to play the best looking games on the highest settings you NEED Vista (Crysis, Bioshock, UT3, World in Conflict all support DX10 for which nVidia/ATI happily support both in hardware and drivers).

I think it’s time people STFU and stopped pretending to know whats going on, the mere fact he’s blaming Microsoft for third parties not providing graphics drivers, WHICH THEY ARE shows he’s probably never actually used Windows Vista thusfar. I can go on and on about what an idiot this guy is but I know at least 80% of you folks here probably agree with him (and about 99% of that number have never actually used Vista) so whatever.

Another sensationalist piece of shit by some kid who brought together all the negative articles he could find (from back during the launch window) and presenting it as fact, probably in an effort to get to the frontpage. Of course if people put value into truth they wouldn’t bother with this biased piece of shit. I mean vista has problems, so criticize them, the ones that are real and there, don’t make up shit just to stir the pot.

“a much more educated public ”
The public is getting more dumb as compared to educated. Apple gets people to buy the OS every release and people happily pay almost $200 for it and still say it is much more better than the last.

And when M$ releases an OS every 3-4 or so years you guys complain and say it has holes, its buggy, it hard to use. Wait till crackers start to attack the MAC OS then you guys can go crying back to Apple.

MAC OS is easy to use because it is meant for dumb people…basically the “much more educated public”.

Moreover, text is rendered much nicer on OSX, and exactly as it would be printed. On Windows, it’s a guessing game as to how it looks on the screen versus how it will print.

Moreover, I can have over 30 apps open at once on OSX and not have to worry about crashes. On Windows I’d have to close programs to make sure I wasn’t running too much at once. It’s so awesome to have so many programs open at once and flip between them - without it crashing!

i understand that vista isn’t the BEST OS out there, but I’m giving props where props is due, Microsoft knows how to cater to the computer dummies.

WGA is the price Microsoft has to pay for creating an operating system that is not restricted to a particular set of hardware. It is required to run reliably on practically any combination of hardware. You know that Windows is infinitely easier to pirate than OSX because Mac have their shit locked down so tightly. People don’t bother to pirate OSX cause with it you have to buy Apple hardware and we all know the cheapest way to buy an operating system is bundled with hardware.

I’m a big fan of Vista, I am running it on a Sony Vaio that I bought at the beginning of 2005. It really isn’t a demanding operating system, MSFanBoy is right. Memory is dirt cheap and $90 on Ebay saw my laptop 1GB stronger. I fell in love with it when I plugged in my external USB HDTV tuner. Vista picked it up, Windows Media Center was immediately able to scan for all my stations. I set a show to record, without Windows Media Center even open a little red circle pops up in my system tray and notifies me it is recording. It uses about 5% of the CPU. The software that came with my tuner uses 50 - 60% and practically anything you do on the computer while it’s recording will result in glitches and skips in the recorded video.

And yes…if you hate Vista that much don’t use it. Use the alternatives you’ve been raving about. It sounds to me like you’d prefer them.