Why does everybody complain about Vista?

Question

I have XP and Vista, and I like Vista better.

Do most of the people here on Yahoo answers that complain about vista actually have it, or are they spreading the hype?

I mean, every piece of hardware I try is compatible with it, most of the time Vista just installs the driver by itself.
The only time that did'nt happen was with a printer, but I just went to the manufacturer's website and got the new driver and it works perfectly.

I don't know why people are complaining why it is so slow, it works fine with an AMD Athlon X2 5200+ and 2 GB ram, and even works on a single core cpu with 512 mb ram.

It has nice features like the media center, which lets you record and pause tv, something that mac doesn't have built into the os, the areo look and design, and direct x 10, great for gaming.

Security?
Just get free anti-virus software and a free firewall, and you are protected. (like avg and zonealarm)
and contrary to popular belief, macs do get viruses sometimes.

So what's wrong with Vista

Vista has many more features:
Improved windows movie maker, the media center can record HD video, and DX 10 for games.
Anyways, Windows Vista Home Premium is cheaper than XP Pro, and includes the media center.
Windows Vista Ultimate has the bitlocker drive encryption, and improved backup software (you don't need to buy anything extra), plus shadow copy, and the windows ultimate extras.

In all editions of vista, updating is now more reliable, since it is run as a control panel, instead of a web application.

You have readyboost, which increases your memory through a simple flash drive, windows defender, user account control, and now windows firewall monitor outgoing traffic.

So my question is, what's wrong with vista??

OK, EVEN MORE FEATURES:

Windows DVD maker enables the creation of DVDs without expensive third-party products.
Windows meeting space-figure what it does from the name.
Integrated speech recognition
the performance diagnostic console-check what's using your pc's resources.

Address space layout randomization- makes it more difficult for malware to penetrate a system

Improved search engine-
finally on the start menu.

WINDOWS XP PROGRAMS
(except for system utilities)
ARE COMPATIBLE WITH VISTA.

How do I know?

Since I have Vista AND XP, I tried dozens of apps with Vista, and they ALL work.

You only need 512 Mb of ram to run vista:
Its ONLY $13
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161637

And 2 GBs of DDR2-800 RAM is only $50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098

Answer 1

Bunch of bandwagon riders that don't really know what they're talking about

I have two computers: One with XP and one with Vista.

I've yet to find a gripe with Vista. It's run perfectly thus far.

Answer 2

Many of the people I know have XP. Windows XP software is not compatible with VISTA, therefore us XP OS people don't like Vista for having to purchase new software. I tried Vista on a friends laptop and liked it ok, Vista will just take some getting used to for us older comp geeks with XP cause that's what we are used to using. If I were to install Vista on my machine, it would cost me more money to upgrade hardware and software than it would to buy a new computer with Vista installed. I guess many people with XP would like it if they started with Vista. For the record, I don't hate Vista, just don't prefer to use it at this time. I will stick with XP until Microsoft decides not to support the OS like they did with most older OS's.

Answer 3

I don't know but today I assisted a customer in removing Vista and restoring XP. He had a dual Athlon 4400 CPU and a gig of memory. I would think it would work, but this system was so slow as to be almost unusable. I did not have a chance to experiment, but it did not look like they had driver problems. Of course, the system rocks with XP.

Answer 4

I have vista and it's ram hungry. My 500 meg ram doesn't keep up.
I have four programs that ran flawlessly on Win98 and XP. They will NOT run on vista.
It's a lie that anything that ran on windows before will run on Vista. The software people have verified that their old software won't run on Vista.
Early on I had pen drives that Vista couldn't read. They have fixed this.
Overall, I'm not impressed. Vista doesn't do anything that xp can't.

Answer 5

Yeah it has been fine for me. I have decided not to upgrade my older pc's and laptop's to Vista since XP gives me everything I need, but my Vista box runs great and is very stable. Unfortunately, it seems the in-thing is to bash Microsoft and any of its products.

Answer 6

Vista still has alot of problems that need to be worked on and still not a big base of programs that work correctly on it.

Answer 7

vista is not mature that bottom line.

vs: those who can't afford new hardware still run XP and games on XP, and Vista is not compatible with old hardware

Answer 8

Vista is just to new to "get on the bandwagon" just yet, and besides that this article keeps alot of people astray

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml