Downward said:
Just bought a laptop with Vista, having just used XP for yonks and not looking at Vista why is everyone on a downer with it ?
Is it just the lack of support for 3rd part products ?
Partly - my scanner for one. But also, (and I can only talk from personal experience of running both OS's) I expected Vista to give me an improvement on Xp and instead got something that ran slower - I have 3gb of memory - with more interruptions, more nagging and nannying, more background disk activity than I'd ever seen before... the list went on until after giving it several months, I realised I just didn't like it, so I finally gave up trying and went back to Xp.
I'm hoping Windows 7, due out next month and that I've seen through RC1, will be the OS that Vista should have been but wasn't.