Vista - One Vote For Vista

Amidst all of the naysayers and whiners, I cast one vote in favor of VISTA
which is much superior to any prior MS OS in terms of improved graphics and
adaptability to more complex programs.
The main problem with this forum is that too many people have just enough
knowledge to get themselves into a jam and not enough smarts to get out.
Looking backwards at XP will avail you nothing but a stiff neck. Get with
the program !

So in other words, we should be super jazzed about a new operating system
that works great if you know nothing about computers, or if you are a
computer whiz, but that is a complicated mess if you moderately savvy.

I should point out that the majority of computer users fall into the last
category.

Why wouldn't someone look back at XP? It was a huge improvement over Windows
95. It was easy to customize and did what you expected it to do most of the
time. Why should users not expect the subsequent OS to be better?

I don't run "complex" software. I'm using Visual Studio 2008, Adobe CS3,
Blend (or whatever they've decided to call it) and Office 2007. And the only
benefit I see in Vista is the eye candy. The drawbacks are myriad, and
catalogued in this forum by all the "whiners" who expected something better
from Microsoft.


"Robert Hankins" wrote:

On Sun, 18 May 2008 21:07:13 -0500, "N Brown"
<tokinkosh65@xxxxxx> wrote:
I did that, but without having to setup a dual-boot. I had XP on a
seperate drive and used my BIOS as the controller for which OS I
wanted to use.

XP is now on an external drive in an image "just in case" and the
drive it was formerly on now holds 60 gigs of Old Time Radio files.

I can't say it's perfect, but I CAn say I like it. i find most of the
problems are the result of my learning curve than errors in the system.
And I want to take this opportunity to extend a word of praise to Vista. I
LOVE the metadata bar at the bottom of the file window! As a writer, this
information has made my life much easier. I can sort my work by a "myriad"
of characteristics easily, not to mention having access to such things as
Status and title by merely highlighting the filename. I wish there was a way
to get my XP machine to do the same thing, via an add on or something.