MS Vista is it time to get real ?

Question

For a while now I have noticed on Answers, people having problem with MS Vista. I realise that a lot of people believe Microsoft's hype, but is Vista being held back by the fact that computer sellers are loading Vista onto machines that are not suitable for Vista, a case in point is the £299 Gateway laptop from Tesco's. I had to recently set one up for a colleague and it took forever to boot to a usable condition.
Far be it from me to say that Vista is a complete piece of C£"P, but Win 3.11/95 and 98, whilst not perfect, allowed people to get to grips with computers. I also agree that from WinNT onwards the NTFS file system was more efficient, but from Win XP onwards Microsofts OS's are becoming more intrusive and more a target for malware and viruses than ever before.

Answer 1

I totally agree, Vista should not be loaded onto low specification .budget machines;it only creates frustration and anger. The number of questions regarding Linux is growing by the day as people realise that there is an alternative to Microsoft.Long live the revolution!!

Answer 2

With every new release of a Microsoft OS, there are headaches and growing pains. Although when you think about it, MS has to support basically every manufacturer around, it's a lot of hard work to make everything compatible.

My biggest gripe is that, yes, MS does like to force it's new product down the throat of the industry and the consumer market. In time, Vista will get polished, but it will still have it's annoyances like XP does.

That's fine, but if information from Microsoft insiders is correct, MS may be moving to a 4-year subscription plan, a new OS every cycle. Talk about nightmares, and I'm going into the IT field....

Answer 3

I have a theory that its a conspiracy between Microsoft and the major hardware manufaturers.

Most people (hardcore gamers excepted from this) want to run Office applications and surf the internet, a modest spec PC purchased 3 years ago running Windows XP will still perform this job quite well as will a modern cheap entry level £299 PC. So why buy the £999 model when the £299 model will serve most folk equally well. Hardware vendors don't make as much cash selling cheaper models, intel lose out as people are content with the older slower CPUs which are sold at lower margins.

So enter Microshaft, tempt the users with Windows Vista and the promise of loads of new hyped up features and a tarty user interface that needs modern hardware to run, bloat it up so that it "justs runs" on a gig of memory and then hype it to hell so everyone wants it. Now we have software ahead of low cost hardware again so you have to buy the mid to high end PCs to run it on, hardware vendors happy with more profit, intel happy selling more profitable higher spec chips which cost more or less the same to make as the lower spec ones.

Ok there is sill a market for £299 PCs but slap Vista on with a gig of RAM and you'll sell the customer a premium price RAM upgrade a couple of months later when they phone your premium rate helpline to complain their harddisk churns for 5 minutes before Word 2007 manages to open.

You can call me cynical if you like, but I've seen it too many times before.

Answer 4

I realise this is not a question, more a statement, but I will throw in my tuppence worth.
I am a system builder and would never put Vista onto one I have built unless specifically asked for. Put Vista onto a PC and it ceases to be yours, Microsoft own it and can dictate what you can do with it. If you install any software that Microsoft does not like they can shut your PC down, send an instruction to it to destroy itself. That is like your phone company saying to you "We don't like who you are talking to on your phone, we will terminate your call"
As for MS saying that XP only has viruses and spyware as it is so popular, that is BS. If a burglar sees a house with windows and doors open and no-one in, they will rob that one.
If they see one that is secure and locked, (Mac & Linux) they will bypass it and seek out the insecure one (Windows)
Microsoft also like to say that Windows has more patches and updates issued than Linux & Mac have, is that because they got it wrong the first time and have to plaster over the cracks on a continual basis? Sod Vista!

Answer 5

I agree one of the problems is that Vista is being loaded into inadequate systems, but that is not the only problem with it. They need to drastically cut down on all the crap that is included with it. I gave it a try. Won't make that mistake again.

Answer 6

MS 2000 is probably not compactable, because it's about 7 years old... but you can try right clicking on the icon, going to properties, compactability, and switching it to 2000. (at least it works that way for XP)

Answer 7

i use vista, its fine

people stick it on shi7 pcs with less than 1gb memory and then ***** about it
but then they dont know jack about pcs and flip burgers for a living