You know . In reading these tech sites and other tech related sites. I have found soooo many people who hate Vista. They have all kinds of problems with it.



I just want to say that I have Vista Home Premium and have never had a problem with any hardware or software , and no compatibility problems. So I have a real problem trying to understand why all these people have had such problems with Vista.

Maybe there have been some issues at first , but really , I don't think people have given Vista a real chance. They wanted another OS very much like XP which they knew well and they were so familiar with.

Maybe you all will disagree with this , but I for one am pleased with Vista. I am one of the "Few" , it seems , who have not had these terrible problems with it.

Maybe they will be happy with Windows 7. I may try it too , if it is light. To me , the real negative on Vista is BLOAT. JMHO

Most people's gripes are about the UAC. The constant prompts for simplistic tasks.
then the user permissions and disappearing downloaded files. I personally have no qualms about theses things. As a matter of fact, I feel like my system is a lot more safer in Vista than any other OS I've used.

It's just a resource hog. I can understand that from a beginner/average user, but advance user should know how to make their computer run more efficiently.

When people are unhappy, they tend to be much more vocal.

That's why we're likely to hear much more negative comments than positive ones.

When everything is going well, people who are content will not come and sign up with a forum and gripe.

I never upgrade to a new OS until other guinea pigs have volunteered to be experimented upon. This is especially true with Microsoft products.

When I finally upgraded to Vista a year after it was released, I have had no issue with it at all.

I bet if Vista were released in 2009, there would be a lot less "haters" out there for it.

Originally Posted by roy69

Another problem is user who try to run software on the OS that is very old or designed for a lower OS. When the programs were designed Vista did not even exist so the programs were not ment for vista. I know Microsost made a bit of a mistake in releasing Vista so early but not all of the problems are thier fault.

This was one of the problems I had, I tried installing the original Command and Conquer (a bit of retro gaming - re-living childhood if you get what I mean!) and Vista didn't like it one bit...

Plus the UAC is really, really, really annoying.

Other than that its been fine!

Andy, a noob compared to everyone on these forums.