Problems with ms vista

I will say it bluntly: I hate Vista. Microsoft made annoying changes that were totally unnecessary. What an annoying pain in the butt. Do I really need to have to confirm removing a program or doing dozens of other common control and configuration tasks? Many other changes are less annoying that UAE, but there is no point in making changes for change sake. Many operations that have been in Windows since 95 and some before that are done in a different way with Vista.

Eventually you can figure out how to do it, but how many millions of person-hours will be wasted figuring out how to do something that we have been doing easily for years with XP? I find translucent icons much harder to identify than opaque ones.

And, Vista is burining up CPU cycles just to make the icons harder to see. This is an improvement? Microsoft talks about how many copies of Vista they have sold, but the number is misleading. We are being forced to buy Vista, so of course they are selling many copies.

I recently purchased a notbook computer from HP. I begged HP to sell me the computer with XP, but they said Microsoft was forcing them to sell Vista, and that was the only way I could buy it. Vista was a mistake, replacing a disaster.

We would be better off with XP, until MS can try again. MS usually takes 3 tries to get something right. Have purchased a software product for making measurements which requires SP Let buyers decide. My preferred OS though is the Ubuntu Linux distribution. For now though I really hope the life of XP is extended. The problems with Vista pale before the problems with Microsoft Office At work I have Windows Works well with my engineering apps.

At home I got vista with my new Dell. No choice. I hated it at first. Now, I dully put up with it. In part, it has led to the resurgent interest in Macs along with the commercials, of course and may well lead to the rise of Linux on Netbook computers. We'll see. Update September 7, I'm not a Mac person, so my analogy about Apple also releasing an OS before it was ready may have been off. A commenter below said: "You would be more correct in using OS X OS X See a summary of all my Defensive Computing postings.

Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Michael Horowitz. Hassle factor The Times article goes on to say: "By now, Microsoft insists that most of the frustrating technical problems with Vista Against this background, Vista has to be better than Windows XP.

Much better. Chris Dub. Hey guys i need some help with a vista problem. I have try this 1. Restart the computer and during startup, press F8. Select Advanced Boot Options. Select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement. This thread is locked. That will provide IT departments with all the justification they need to simply skip Vista and wait to eventually standardize on Windows 7 as the next OS for business.

So how did Vista get left holding the bag? Let's look at the five most important reasons why Vista failed. In , there are now over 1. That means almost million computers are running XP, which makes it the most widely installed operating system of all time. That's a lot of inertia to overcome, especially for IT departments that have consolidated their deployments and applications around Windows XP.

And, believe it or not, Windows XP could actually increase its market share over the next couple years. Low-cost netbooks and nettops are going to be flooding the market. While these inexpensive machines are powerful enough to provide a solid Internet experience for most users, they don't have enough resources to run Windows Vista, so they all run either Windows XP or Linux.

Intel expects this market to explode in the years ahead. For more on netbooks and nettops, see this fact sheet and this presentation -- both are PDFs from Intel. Vista has over 50 million lines of code. XP had 35 million when it was released, and since then it has grown to about 40 million. This software bloat has had the effect of slowing down Windows Vista, especially when it's running on anything but the latest and fastest hardware.

Even then, the latest version of Windows XP soundly outperforms the latest version of Microsoft Vista. No one wants to use a new computer that is slower than their old one. The XP stood for "experience" and was part of Microsoft's. NET Web services strategy at the time. The master plan was to get users and businesses to pay a yearly subscription fee for the Windows experience -- XP would essentially be the on-going product name but would include all software upgrades and updates, as long as you paid for your subscription.