What are some of the bugs that still need to be fixed with Windows Vista?

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(for a laptop if that makes any difference)

Answer 1

Bugs what Bugs !

Dont listen to the 'vistas got bugs crowd' , its a load of tosh.

Ive been running Vista since the day it went on release, and in Beta form before that, ive never had problems.

Answer 2

Other than the OS being a resource hog, Vista has only given me one Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) so far. Unfortunately I've only had it for about two weeks so I can't say if this was a rare glitch or just the beginning of a problem. I believe the culprit to be a combined problem with MS Vista and McAfee as that was the only change on the system (installed McAfee to replace the trial version of Norton that came with the system). Software installed and ran a quick directory scan without a problem. Left the system to run overnight for a complete scan and woke up to the BSOD. I'm still surprised that the OS would go into a crash like that. I haven't seen software crash other non-Microsoft operating systems like that.

In general though, the problems with MS Vista aren't necessarily bug related. Here are some issues that I have with it:
- Requires greater system resources with minimal functionality.
- Compatibility - although one can argue that 3rd party vendors have known about the Vista release for quite some time and have had access to early releases to ensure their software/drivers would be compatible.
- DRM - The OS supports increased Digital Rights Management. Everyone is considered a criminal. Fair use copies are progressively more difficult to make.
- File system access - Try getting into the directory structures in your home directory. Maybe I haven't enabled some settings, but I couldn't get into the Application Data directory.
- No compelling reason to upgrade when all of these features could have been included in Windows XP.
- Too many versions to choose from. Other operating system vendors tend to have a single OS version and then add additional applications depending on the system role.
- Virtual environment license restrictions prohibit some Vista license levels from being installed in virtual machine environments.

Answer 3

I agree with the poster above me. People are just reluctant to change. Vista has the potential to be a resource hog, bug if your PC is good enough (which most new ones are) it should run fine and if it can't handle it, you can remove all the eye-candy just like you could in XP. The only problem I ever experienced with Vista was initially the video card drivers sucked for my NVidia card, however that's an issue with NVidia and not Microsoft. Needless to say, it's fixed and sexy.