Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Silent Vista-loving majority?
Loving Vista
by Kzac Hawk - 5/9/08 8:54 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarThis product, for all the hype and glitter it has been given, does not do one thing that you cannot accomplish with XP. It was an attempt to beat leopard to the market, without the functionality.
Its honestly not worth the money spent to upgrade so you can have more Microsoft control than ever before. Its a processor and memory hog and actually runs worse in many cases that an old copy of Windows ME.
Its no worth the price of admission. Keep XP and continue on. Trust me you will not miss any of the aggravation that Vista brings with it.
An while I am at it the same goes doubbbbbbbble for Office 2007, what a complete disaster of a software change.
At this point in the game, we have all seen GUI interfaces, there's not much more hype and glitter we need from and OS. What is needed is an OS that incorporates a PIM. That would be worth the price of admission. If my computer would actually start in a program that could advise me of what I need to be doing and focusing on. Not just a blank sheet, you go find it window.
Something that opens up into a window of my day and life, not a bunch of programs that open automatically and crash my PC, but one single active desktop that can be customized.....what a dream....yea....
Back to reality
So Vista, just glitter dude, just glitter.....
Windows ME in a new box
by texbadger - 5/9/08 8:56 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI really don't feel that there is much new in Vista for the average user. You just have to spend time finding things you used in XP, and in some instances things you got used to are just gone. I ordered Vista Home Premium, but it has all the security features of the Business version, best I can tell. So file sharing has been a problem with my other XP machines. I have wasted a lot of time finding how to do things, and the help menues are really misnamed.
Vista - I love it! (Bashers - get over yourselves.)
by aerussell - 5/9/08 9:05 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarAs an early adapter, I always want what is new and better. I get bored easily. Vista was exciting right from the beginning.
Vista is easy to use (I can't believe all the bashing I read)and beautiful. Any compatibility issues I had during the first few months, were easily handled by a "chat" with ms support.
Important to me: it is more secure - this is a key feature; I can work more efficiently, especially with Office 2007, I really love what they have done with Office; and the "aero" interface with the flip feature to easily see what all I have open and to navigate between the various panes; music, pictures & videos are much improved.
It is unfortunate loud-mouthed bashers (of all Microsoft products), jealous wanna be's, influence people from trying something new and better. If you like Windows XP and want to stay there, fine, but it is SO yesterday.
Depends on the generation
by jpederse - 5/9/08 9:25 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarAt home I am still using ME. For me, that's enough. My daughter is 29 and had to move back in with us after a divorce. She is a graduate nursing student and has Vista on her laptop and likes it (or at least learned to live with it).
Yes I love Vista is thqa so bad?
by jnsarra - 5/9/08 9:29 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI've been using Vista since it came out on my pc at work and my mac pro at home. I haven't had any trouble and I love the look, fast / easy searching not to mention the widgets.
Using Vista and Loving It!
by bigvince - 5/9/08 11:12 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI have been using Vista in both 64 and 32 bit version since early beta. I've heard many comments, both pro and con. What it boils down to, in my mind, is that Vista is different than previous os's from Microsoft. Security is different and the look and feel of it is different. It took me a while to get used to the features, but once I did, I would not go back to XP or anything else. I have more control over things like parental control and general security without buying software from Symantec or anyone else. This ticks some people off because they don't sell as much of their software. This ticks some people off because they don't like anything different than what they know or are used to.
I'm just tired of all the whining by users and negative marketing hype by Apple and others. Vista is a good os with some very good and needed features. I'm glad I've moved from XP to Vista - and I have no regrets!
Loving it...Kinda forced to though...
by surferdude1# - 5/9/08 11:23 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustaryeah i got a laptop with vista pre-installed for my birthday. With no money or intent to buy XP i thought i might try ubuntu but it doesn't recognize the live cd's i make, so i'm left to try vista. I'd heard so many terrible things but i found it ok. However the aero slows it down alot so i downloaded some visual styles for basic from deviantart and it runs like an XP machine but with a better explorer and such. 
Vista is superior on some hardware
by sunnyd71 - 5/9/08 12:36 PM In reply to: Loving it...Kinda forced to though... by surferdude1#I had to sign up just for this. I have vista on my Dell laptop that cam preloaded that works flawlessly.
BUT I have Vista on my desktop that I upgraded from XP and it can be a pain sometimes. I have had driver issues that have driven me nuts but am happy now. Still have the occasional problem but it is almost as stable as XP.
Hands down I think Vista is the superior OS feature to feature. Once the kinks are worked out it is a great piece of software; it just really depends on if your hardware wants to cooperate.
I like my Vista
by dizzyqueen - 5/9/08 12:19 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI bought a Vista Home Basic 32-bit 256 MB RAM several months ago, on an HP/Compaq laptop. I have high-speed cable internet. The only problem I had was with sluggishness in booting up, some programs slow to open, and slow downloading from the internet. A cheap upgrade to a 1-Gigabyte RAM ended all of these problems. I often use Firefox and Internet Explorer at the same time, and it doesn't affect performance at all. I use Auslogics Disk Defrag and Registry Defrag weekly before backing up to an external HD. (Auslogics is much faster than Windows defrag, and gives a lot more information)
I was concerned at first because of the lack of software available that was compatible with Vista, but that has improved greatly.
The "Help" is truly helpful, and includes the links and instructions for what I want to do or find out.
Vista is okay for what I do with it...
by dhyamato - 5/9/08 12:22 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI purchased a notebook just over a year ago that came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed and have enjoyed the "journey" with it so far. For what I do with it (mainly online work using Firefox and the use of Open Office for my document management), I find it a nice change over XP.
If I were to purchase Vista on it's own, I probably wouldn't at the moment. To me, the features don't justify the price, yet.
I like the added security features. However, at times it feels like XP with a aesthetic make-over. Most changes seem cosmetic. Just my two cents...
What's wrong with Vista?
by HTH1960 - 5/9/08 1:19 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI bought a laptop with Vista pre-installed in December 2007. I run Office 2003 on it with no problems. I've got a case management program dating back to 2001 that runs on Vista without a problem. I've only had two problems: (1) it hangs up and won't shut down when I'm connected to the office LAN because of an Nvidia network controller, and (2) I haven't been able to network it with an XP server. The latter is probably due in part to my own lack of technical expertise. I also have a budget PC that I bought for my daughter about the same time. It runs Vista without a problem. So, like I said, what's wrong with Vista? I think it is just popular to bash the new thing.
Almost a year, works great
by pipecardona - 5/9/08 1:24 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI bought a HP Pavilion w5710la which came with Vista Home Basic (to replace my older HP) and everything has gone great so far. Smooth performance, great stability... I have nothing to say but good things from my system. Actually, I've been thinking on upgrading my OS to Home Premium.
The only downpart is that the system became very slow when I installed Office 2007, but I just upgraded my RAM (from 1GB to 2GB) and the problem was solved.
Windows Vista
by Bobt_1234 - 5/9/08 1:39 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI like the user interface and the "look and feel" of Vista. It has many features that are quite nice, including the "glassy" screens, ability to save backups of files that are being copied over in Explorer, and one personal favorite is the ability to highlight and copy or overwrite only the file name and not the name + extension by default, when pressing F2 in Explorer.
My gripes with Vista are the hardware/software compatibility issues. I'm a Delphi programmer from way back and I have Delphi 7. It doesn't work well in Vista at all. It didn't even install at first, and now that I have it installed I have all kinds of issues with it. The debugger doesn't work right, certain menus are inaccessible (I get access violations when I try to open them), and the overall environment is unstable. I hate to spend $377 to upgrade to Delphi 2007.
Also, even more disturbing, is that my Pinnacle USB TV tuner doesn't work at all. I get errors when I try to scan for TV stations and I've yet to get any meaningful help from Pinnacle. So, basically, I have a $150 paperweight that used to work when I had XP.
And yes, the fact that my office hasn't upgraded our VPN to accept Vista means I can't dial in to work on my new Vista machine.
However, all that being said, the overall performance and usability of the operating system is very nice. I just wish all these issues would resolve.
Vista the Great!
by Badgermc - 5/9/08 1:51 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI built a system in 11/05 with a Gigabyte GA-865 - Intel 840EE - Radeon 800GT 256mbs. - 2gb. PC6400 RAM - 3 WD Raptors in a RAID 5 config especially for Vista. It didn't really come to using Vista everyday until 8/06 with Vista RC1. I was awestruck. I haven't had a second of trouble with anything. Since '05 with courtesy of the electric company that blew my motherboard I am now running a Gigabyte GA-965P - Intel 840EE (OCed to 3.8ghz) - Radeon 3850 512mb. - 8gb. PC6400 - 3 WD Raptors in a RAID 5 and moved to 64 bit Vista and the only problem I had was syncing my Palm via USB. It works fine with Bluetooth so it's not a issue. This system flys! I am a true hardcore Vista lover.
I also got in on a MS deal and got a free Vista business edition. I installed it on my old box with a Gigabyte GA-8IHXP - Intel 2.53ghz. P4 - 512mb RAMBUS 1066mhz. - Radeon 9600 128mb - 2 Maxtor 7200RPM alongside XP Pro and it won't bring up Aero but it flies. It'smy wife's desktop and se was so exicited with Vista she had to have a new Samsung LCD and Saitek pink keyboard/mouse. This older system doesn't run with mine but I will put it against XP anyday.
I LOVE VISTA. When compares it to ME I go postal - jihad - CRAZY!!!
Windows Vista Premium!!!
by chumley1012 - 5/9/08 3:03 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI don't know why people are always complainng about there Windows Vista???? It's simple, WINDOWS VISTA SUCKS COMPLETELY!!! Thank you I feel much better getting that off my CHEST!!!!
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