Man of Honour
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Vista was a fine OS, not Windwos ME by any means, but I had a few problems (one or two still there)...
1) Was slow on older hardware. Don't use the "upgrade" excuse as this was not always possible. Not everyone in this world is rich and/or into computers enough to constantly upgrade their hardware. At the time it was better just to stick with XP. 7 later went on some of this hardware anyway as I found it was a lot snappier on these older machines.
2) UAC. The idea was and is good, but the constant popups (often 2 or 3 times for the same application without any user input inbetween sometimes) were very very annoying and I must say I turned UAC off on my Vista x64 installation. On Windows 7 it asks once, which is fine by me. UAC on my x64 7 Installation is left on...
3) Compatability. Not really Vista's fault, and mostly has been fixed with Windows 7 now, not due to the OS itself, but because patches and workarounds have now been worked out by the software developers and various third parties. However the fact that you could not run your old software on the newer OS generally meant people just stuck to good old XP, which ran everything. I dual-booted myself and XP got used 90% of the time...
4) Crashes. One or two BSODs for me I believe, but they were driver related. Usually the graphics drivers. However, although again this was not Vista's fault, it still didn't make me want to use the OS when the XP drivers worked fine...
And yes, at the time my main machine was a Q9650 (3 Ghz) with 8GB RAM and a 8800GT graphics card. It ran Vista at a good speed so that wasn't an issue for me personally, but it did suffer from the Compatability issues (program related) and Driver issues.
In short, SP1 and SP2 helped a lot with various issues, but Vista was not the OS to use on release. Most people do not like change, professionals and novices alike, hence it's perceived "failure." It did pave the way nicely for Windows 7 though, and although I still have a spare boot of Windows XP, I have not needed to use it for months. It even still needs the ATI graphics driver installed...
1) Was slow on older hardware. Don't use the "upgrade" excuse as this was not always possible. Not everyone in this world is rich and/or into computers enough to constantly upgrade their hardware. At the time it was better just to stick with XP. 7 later went on some of this hardware anyway as I found it was a lot snappier on these older machines.
2) UAC. The idea was and is good, but the constant popups (often 2 or 3 times for the same application without any user input inbetween sometimes) were very very annoying and I must say I turned UAC off on my Vista x64 installation. On Windows 7 it asks once, which is fine by me. UAC on my x64 7 Installation is left on...
3) Compatability. Not really Vista's fault, and mostly has been fixed with Windows 7 now, not due to the OS itself, but because patches and workarounds have now been worked out by the software developers and various third parties. However the fact that you could not run your old software on the newer OS generally meant people just stuck to good old XP, which ran everything. I dual-booted myself and XP got used 90% of the time...
4) Crashes. One or two BSODs for me I believe, but they were driver related. Usually the graphics drivers. However, although again this was not Vista's fault, it still didn't make me want to use the OS when the XP drivers worked fine...
And yes, at the time my main machine was a Q9650 (3 Ghz) with 8GB RAM and a 8800GT graphics card. It ran Vista at a good speed so that wasn't an issue for me personally, but it did suffer from the Compatability issues (program related) and Driver issues.
In short, SP1 and SP2 helped a lot with various issues, but Vista was not the OS to use on release. Most people do not like change, professionals and novices alike, hence it's perceived "failure." It did pave the way nicely for Windows 7 though, and although I still have a spare boot of Windows XP, I have not needed to use it for months. It even still needs the ATI graphics driver installed...
