Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Windows Vista Rant, Rant!

I mean the cost...

In reply to: What high cost? by R. Proffitt 

Of buying it seperately as a non-OEM retail copy.

Yeah

In reply to: It looks to be on par with XP versions. by R. Proffitt 

Still too high.

Yes, some felt NT, 2000, XP were...

by R. Proffitt  - 10/18/07 11:18 AM

All to high.

Shouldn't they run Linux?

(NT) I'll second that

What the big deal with downgrading?

If you buying a brand new laptop that was designed specifically for xp, sure downgrading may pose a few driver problems.
But if your buying a laptop from any of the major brands, dell hp asus acer lenovo ,that actually existed before the advent of vista just whip out the hard drive install xp home on a new hard drive and keep the one with vista pre installed till your ready to run vista.( its cheaper than pro and 90% of the pro extras are already on the disc, you just need to look for them to install them)
you may need a driver or 2 but they will all be on your vendors website.

Someone finally talking sonme sense

I have to agree to being so sick of the bandwagon Vista bashing. I can still remember 12 months after XP was released and seeing some software STILL not updated for that OS. Things have come a long way since then with most supported software and a great deal of hardware already updated for Vista within months of release, a huge percentage even by the time this Windows version hit the shelves. MS showed a great deal of common sense in their releasing Vista pre-releases for public and business preview ...ity got many of the kinks out before people started handing over the bucks.

The other thing I really like is that finally, with the new AERO interface being GPU dependent, that we might start seeing a clearing out of many of the bare-basic-yet-over-priced junk PC's, as well as more of the general public feeling a little more confident in getting to know their computer. With a more intuative layout hopefully it will be easier for users to make their way around.

On the negative ....so long as manufacturers like HP keep pumping out PC's using out-dated hardware, as well as manufacturers taking advantage over the current lack of understanding over the different Vista builds, then the confusion will continue to prevail. Maybe it is about time MS finally did more of the advertising instead of leaving it in the hands of the PC manufacturer.

It will also take some time for people to fully realise how to move around Vista and make it work as hard as it is capable. For instance, how many BVista users know the "F10 shortcut" to reveal the classic menubar, or to use "Disk-cleanup" to keep the system backups from chewing away at HDD resources??

All in all, as one who has seen Vista progress from the Beta 1 days, I have to say a great job

Reply to other OS's have smooth upgrades, why can't MS do

Vista works just fine it's the hard ware manufacturers they were told years ago to get ready for vista but did they NO they did nothing until it was released. I still have hd sat cards and no drivers for them. But I live in hope and anyway if we had on problems it would make computers very boring because that's half the fun getting them to run smoothly another late night again then ?