Comments on: Joe Wilcox says Vista is failing (again)

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By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:07:56 +0000

In my case, I bought a new laptop (because I had to) and it came with Vista (no other OS choices). I didn’t, however, buy any other new gear and none of my current gear (most of which is several years old but still operates just fine) works with Vista due to lack of drivers (and, since the gear is several generations old, no manufacturers have provided updated Vista drivers, and probably never will). In addition, some of the key software applications I regularly use were not Vista-compatible in the versions I had. They all have Vista-compatible versions now, but the upgrade to these versions is not free.

Needless to say, I had no interest in buying all new gear (printers, scanners, etc.) and paying for (unnecessary) software upgrades just so I could use Vista. All of my gear and software worked fine with Windows XP. So, I ended up wiping the hard drive clean on my new laptop and replacing Vista with XP. I really wanted to stick with Vista, but it just wasn’t practical or cost-effective.

By: Artie Kay

Artie Kay — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:11:15 +0000

too funny Phil, I did the exact same thing. I’ve been debating deleting his feed for the last couple of weeks, this one was the proverbial straw on the camel’s back.

By: Phil Sweet

Phil Sweet — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:18:55 +0000

I read Joe Wilcox’s article yesterday. After finishing his article, I removed him from my RSS feeds. The article was pure garbage. I think some of these so-called Vista experts get more Web hits (and paid more) for slamming Microsoft and Vista. Some companies may be holding back on deploying Vista because they still have not modified all their home-brew Windows programs, to play nice with Vista. There are lots of legacy Windows programs that assume the user has admin rights to run and modify files in the system folder and registry.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:25:31 +0000

That Windows Watch ought to be called Windows Bash. I’ve also installed Vista SP1 on a new machine. It installed with no issues and it performs just fine. There have been a few small glitches with some apps and a driver, but I can’t say if any of them are related to Vista or the new hardware. Certainly nothing worse than any new OS starts out. All my day-to-day apps are working normally.

I also installed XP. XP has served me very well over the years, but it is getting old. I’m going to relate some issues just to provide a counterpoint to the “Vista Sucks/XP Is Great” routine that’s been going on. To install, I had to make a special boot CD because I have no floppy to supply an F6 driver and my SATA controllers are in ACPI mode. Then XP got confused because I was shuffling disks around as I moved data from my old machine – it complained of a drive not ready every time I booted – I reinstalled to fix this. Next, my sound drivers wouldn’t install. I had to research this – it need an MS KB for the HD audio bus driver. That KB didn’t install properly – I had to manually update the driver for the device. I haven’t done nearly as much with this XP install as with the Vista install, so it hasn’t had a fraction of the opportunity to break.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:17:42 +0000

Agree 100%. Funny thing is, I recently moved to Vista, and I have to be honest, I’m not sure what all the fuss is about. I find it an enjoyable OS to work with. Yeah I needed a new PC, but my PC was ancient and falling apart anyway (It actually died FORCING me to get a new one).

Quite frankly, I didn’t feel bad about spending the cash. I have a system that doesn’t seem to have load times for the work that I do. It looks nice, it’s stable and has a lot of changes to the interface that I really like.

Also, the install was pretty much unattended, it just wanted to know what language I spoke. XP is forever asking questions

Keep the Faith!