I am always amazed at all the talk of people downgrading to Windows XP since I started working in the Computer Helpdesk at my college. Vista might be lousy sometimes, but I sure wish people would use it a lot more. It only takes a few times through the routine of trying to remove spyware, viruses, and bugs from XP computers belonging to people who can't tell a keyboard from a mouse to make you thankful for better user privilege control
It's those same people who can't tell a mouse from a modem, that SWEAR vista is horrible.
They don't know why. They want me to show them how to make it look like XP, but when I ask what they don't like about Vista, they don't really have an answer. I change the start menu to classic, then the theme to Windows classic, and usually they're happy with that.
The general masses get all this from fox/yahoo news, or their cousin Joe who works in electronics at Best Buy. They hear, 'Vista is horrible!' and spout it off so they can seem like they're tech savy.
Oye.
I've been equipped with Vista Ultimate X64 since July, and it's been solid. The only issues I've had were with a few small programs (such as CoreTemp) that had unsigned drivers and wouldn't load. A quick google search solved that. Can't say I'm looking back.
I'm a Mac person myself (in fact, my Windows desktop is still running XP since I haven't had the money to upgrade yet...) and while I still _greatly_ prefer the OS X to any other operating system (both Windows and Linux), I have to admit that for the average Joe, Windows Vista is a big improvement. Unfortunately, they don't understand that certain things are now locked down for their protection. For me, XP is not too bad, as I know how to correctly set up security systems and such, but for the average "idiot," XP is actually kind of dangerous.
Well, I manage an IT department that designs software and I can tell you why I hate Vista. First, it has nothing to do with speed. I understand that as computers get faster you can start moving things out of the kernel (such as video drivers) to make the system more stable at the cost of speed. You can also spend more cpu time preventing things like deadlocks. This is fine by me and I was very excited for Vista before it arrived. I'm more concerned about better memory management than OS footprint anyway. My issue with it, is with all the fuss about stability I received far more blue screens than I ever had with XP. In fact, I can't remember the last blue screen I got in xp and my work computer tends to stay on for weeks at a time. Vista was blue screening from things like playing quicktime videos and burning DVDs. I don't mind if somebody's software crashes but the OS should be better than to crash with it. You can't really blame somebody else's software for a blue screen if you're protecting the kernel properly. Afterall, isn't vista suppose to be better than xp?
I also hate how every admin function in vista takes 2 to 3 more clicks to get at. In XP I go to the control panel and then I get into the section that I need to be in. In Vista, I go to the control panel, go to where I want, answer a question on what I want to do, approve the action, and then I'm there. Heck, every one of the "what do you want to do?" questions tends to take you to the same place so its very annoying that there is even that extra step. Vista just gets in my way too much! I do lots of user support at my job and hate when we have a vista machine come in. I also design UIs for a living and vista's ui is a downgrade from xp. My mac at home has user protection built in but it only comes up when its really needed. I've never felt the need to turn it off on linux or a mac, but I do on Vista.
Finally, I've always been an early adopter of each new version of Windows. I loved 95 compared to 3.1, 98 when it came out was a lot better than 95, I loved 2000, and I loved XP (and no, I didn't have to wait till sp1 to appreciate xp). They all had slight adjustments but within a month of using I didn't want to go back. I used Vista for a year and going back to XP was such a relief. I'll give it a try again after SP1. I'm sure stability is better but there is still the issue with the UI. I'm also bugged that they fix things that aren't broken. The calculator, backup utility, and image viewer are all inferior in Vista compared to their XP counterparts.
So yes, some people that know what they're talking about do hate Vista for a good reason.
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I am always amazed at all the talk of people downgrading to Windows XP since I started working in the Computer Helpdesk at my college. Vista might be lousy sometimes, but I sure wish people would use it a lot more. It only takes a few times through the routine of trying to remove spyware, viruses, and bugs from XP computers belonging to people who can't tell a keyboard from a mouse to make you thankful for better user privilege control
It's those same people who can't tell a mouse from a modem, that SWEAR vista is horrible.
They don't know why. They want me to show them how to make it look like XP, but when I ask what they don't like about Vista, they don't really have an answer. I change the start menu to classic, then the theme to Windows classic, and usually they're happy with that.
The general masses get all this from fox/yahoo news, or their cousin Joe who works in electronics at Best Buy. They hear, 'Vista is horrible!' and spout it off so they can seem like they're tech savy.
Oye.
I've been equipped with Vista Ultimate X64 since July, and it's been solid. The only issues I've had were with a few small programs (such as CoreTemp) that had unsigned drivers and wouldn't load. A quick google search solved that. Can't say I'm looking back.
I'm a Mac person myself (in fact, my Windows desktop is still running XP since I haven't had the money to upgrade yet...) and while I still _greatly_ prefer the OS X to any other operating system (both Windows and Linux), I have to admit that for the average Joe, Windows Vista is a big improvement. Unfortunately, they don't understand that certain things are now locked down for their protection. For me, XP is not too bad, as I know how to correctly set up security systems and such, but for the average "idiot," XP is actually kind of dangerous.
Well, I manage an IT department that designs software and I can tell you why I hate Vista. First, it has nothing to do with speed. I understand that as computers get faster you can start moving things out of the kernel (such as video drivers) to make the system more stable at the cost of speed. You can also spend more cpu time preventing things like deadlocks. This is fine by me and I was very excited for Vista before it arrived. I'm more concerned about better memory management than OS footprint anyway. My issue with it, is with all the fuss about stability I received far more blue screens than I ever had with XP. In fact, I can't remember the last blue screen I got in xp and my work computer tends to stay on for weeks at a time. Vista was blue screening from things like playing quicktime videos and burning DVDs. I don't mind if somebody's software crashes but the OS should be better than to crash with it. You can't really blame somebody else's software for a blue screen if you're protecting the kernel properly. Afterall, isn't vista suppose to be better than xp?
I also hate how every admin function in vista takes 2 to 3 more clicks to get at. In XP I go to the control panel and then I get into the section that I need to be in. In Vista, I go to the control panel, go to where I want, answer a question on what I want to do, approve the action, and then I'm there. Heck, every one of the "what do you want to do?" questions tends to take you to the same place so its very annoying that there is even that extra step. Vista just gets in my way too much! I do lots of user support at my job and hate when we have a vista machine come in. I also design UIs for a living and vista's ui is a downgrade from xp. My mac at home has user protection built in but it only comes up when its really needed. I've never felt the need to turn it off on linux or a mac, but I do on Vista.
Finally, I've always been an early adopter of each new version of Windows. I loved 95 compared to 3.1, 98 when it came out was a lot better than 95, I loved 2000, and I loved XP (and no, I didn't have to wait till sp1 to appreciate xp). They all had slight adjustments but within a month of using I didn't want to go back. I used Vista for a year and going back to XP was such a relief. I'll give it a try again after SP1. I'm sure stability is better but there is still the issue with the UI. I'm also bugged that they fix things that aren't broken. The calculator, backup utility, and image viewer are all inferior in Vista compared to their XP counterparts.
So yes, some people that know what they're talking about do hate Vista for a good reason.