Slow Death for Windows Vista - Packaged Software End of Sales Reached

[Kit]

well, I haven't had any real problems with vista and most of the things i dislike about it are actually rather simple, like not being able to shut off the UAC without getting a billion security warning or something like that, but i still enjoy Windows Vista, i don't shun it like some people do, even though my laptop has Windows 7, i just enjoy both operating systems, whatever makes the PC work, I mean even if it came with Ubuntu 10.10 i'd still use it........which i really want to try by the way, i read reviews and it just looks so nice. and believe it or not my old C&T teacher called Vista "This decades Millenium Edition" although he was referring to vista when it first came out and had so many problems people actually CHOSE XP over it.

 

[stevethenerd]

Vista was great until I plugged in my crappy printer... (even plugged stupid thing in to network, not USB) Vista must die, unfortunately it was a great stepping to stone to the WONDERFUL Windows 7. (crappy printer still has problems in W7 x64)

 

[DeanP]

I love Vista, until it stopped working for some reason and had to re-install OS. Lost the Vista DVD and retails no longer sell Vista.

Vista is a Good OS, I don't see why people says it sucks.

I ask people this question:
Why Does Windows Vista Sucks?

This is the answer I always get:
Because it just sucks!

For god sakes, can you describe how it sucks? I would like feedback from Vista Haters.

 

[seekermeister]

I love Vista, until it stopped working for some reason and had to re-install OS. Lost the Vista DVD and retails no longer sell Vista.

Vista is a Good OS, I don't see why people says it sucks.

I ask people this question:
Why Does Windows Vista Sucks?

This is the answer I always get:
Because it just sucks!

For god sakes, can you describe how it sucks? I would like feedback from Vista Haters.

Not having used Vista, I can't answer your question, but if you Google the phrase "Why does Vista suck", you will get 1,980,000 returns to browse.

 

[jp07764]

YouTube - Vista install in 2 minutes

Video of Vista install.
Thought it was funny.

Jimmy

 

[Maxxwire]

I still enjoy Windows Vista, i don't shun it like some people do, even though my laptop has Windows 7, i just enjoy both operating systems,

Same here. What I think is funny is people who insist that Vista sucks to the nth degree without realizing how close Windows 6.1 is to its origin in Windows 6.0. I've had my Win 7 desktop for 5 months now and its just great. I got my laptop about a year after Vista was first released and by that time the RTM version I had was so improved that I never has any trouble with it and it kind of makes me laugh when people slam Vista because it was continually improved upon and is after all that development the source of Win 7 which some people cleverly refer to as Vista SP3.

~Maxx~
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[KazeNoKoe23]

I love Vista, until it stopped working for some reason and had to re-install OS. Lost the Vista DVD and retails no longer sell Vista.

Vista is a Good OS, I don't see why people says it sucks.

I ask people this question:
Why Does Windows Vista Sucks?

This is the answer I always get:
Because it just sucks!

For god sakes, can you describe how it sucks? I would like feedback from Vista Haters.

Not having used Vista, I can't answer your question, but if you Google the phrase "Why does Vista suck", you will get 1,980,000 returns to browse.

And I'm willing to bet about 1,979,500 of those reasons are asinine responses from people that either never used it or tried it on low-end hardware. Virtually all of the issues people complain about Vista to this day with were ironed out by SP1, if not by SP2.

This post was made on my Vista Business x64 SP2 install.

 

[Dave76]

vista was rubbish people absolute rubbish it was a beta for 7 that's about it

It was only rubbish for people trying to install it on low end XP hardware

Well said I think people who purchase the OS with out fully reading the requirments are full of Rubbish
You can't make something work if you don't take the time to understand how it works it is like putting a 1970 corvette engine in a 2010 silverado truck just doesn't work that way

alot of people try to upgrade with out a slight clue that theire hardware is absolute useless with the new OS

Good points, vista gets blamed for a lot of things Vista didn't do.

Thanks cbg, you have proved a point several members have been making here.
Did you hear that it wasn't any good?

 

[wds7]

You just don't get it ...do you ....?
The point is not about people "Upgraded their OS" ..is the about people like me ..who bought new pcs with Vista OS on it ..and with all the greatness+promises from MS ..
I'm not a stupid guy ....i tweaked it every which way ...still could not make it work smoothly ...
Without saying that whole lot of people out there who don't know much about computer ..of course, they would get angry and felt that MS sold them the UNFINISHED product ..just for the name of greed..... do you understand now ....?
You ...by the way ...one of the rare breed ...who is so easily to accept the "Broken product"
with your "hard earned money" ...
The way i see it you are just an arrogant ,snob geek ...BTW being a geek does not give you the right to look down on people .
Open your eyes .

 

[Maxxwire]

You just don't get it ...do you ....?
The point is not about people "Upgraded their OS" ..is the about people like me ..who bought new pcs with Vista OS on it ..and with all the greatness+promises from MS ..
I'm not a stupid guy ....i tweaked it every which way ...still could not make it work smoothly ...

Yes, I do get where you're coming from and I'm truly sorry that you could not get your Vista computer to run smoothly, but as you must know not all computers running the same OS run exactly the same and my Vista laptop worked well from the start and with some tweaking I got it to boot up twice as fast, run 40% faster with less than 1/2 the RAM consumption (435 MB) which was originally about 1GB.

One of the things that I miss about Win 7 is that virtually all the tweaking has been already been done. I worked hard to reduce my Vista laptop's boot time from 90 to 45 seconds and yet my Win 7 computer boots up in 20 seconds! The first time I saw that I thought 'Win 7 is Vista all grown up and perfected!'

~Maxx~
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[yowanvista]

I'm not a stupid guy ....i tweaked it every which way ...still could not make it work smoothly ...

Why would you tweak it, when Vista was released most systems were underpowered with only 1GB and thats why Vista gained such a bad reputation, I've seen many users trying to apply 'XP tweaks' to Vista, damaging it then saying it was bad
The problems lies in the user, not in the OS itself
I ran vista for almost 3 years without any problems

You ...by the way ...one of the rare breed ...who is so easily to accept the "Broken product"
with your "hard earned money" ...

Just remember when XP was released it gained so much criticism, its not a reason to blame an OS when someones installs it on a low end machine

 

[DeanP]

For me, the reason why people are saying Windows Vista sucks are following reasons:

- They didn't use Vista before - liers
- Using budget (low-end) hardware such as a 1.5 or 1.6GHz CPU or 256MB or 512MB RAM. They never follow the specifications saying.

Windows Vista was built differently from Windows XP.

Mac OS X 10.0-10.2 (Jaguar, Cheetah and Puma) have a lot of criticisms. Maybe more criticisms than Vista.

 

[wilywombat]

14 pages of comment on a non current OS ...Time to move on folks! There will always be lovers and haters of any OS including..Shock!..Horror! Windows Seven. The answer is ...live with it, move on......

 

[chrysalis]

XP was in a better state than vista on launch no doubt about it.

Vista got fixed by SP2 maybe even SP1, but by then it was too late.

I imagine Vista SP2 is not a bad OS, it has the things like aero and decent 64bit but also without the dumbing down of features that windows 7 had. Windows 7 gained because it performs much better on low spec machines and was in a better state at launch. Also the public beta test made it very popular.

 

[DeanP]

Hopefully when SP3 comes out, there is a major improvement over SP1 and SP2.

 

[yowanvista]

Hopefully when SP3 comes out, there is a major improvement over SP1 and SP2.

SP2 is as stable as Win7, no doubt SP3 will be better

 

[Maxxwire]

14 pages of comment on a non current OS ...Time to move on folks!

I moved on and got a Win 7 computer nevertheless 1/2 of the computers I own currently run Vista.

~Maxx~
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[KazeNoKoe23]

XP was in a better state than vista on launch no doubt about it.

Vista got fixed by SP2 maybe even SP1, but by then it was too late.

I imagine Vista SP2 is not a bad OS, it has the things like aero and decent 64bit but also without the dumbing down of features that windows 7 had. Windows 7 gained because it performs much better on low spec machines and was in a better state at launch. Also the public beta test made it very popular.

Sadly this is true. One of the biggest criticisms regarding Vista was how it was at launch, although personally I had little issue with it from day one. The same people who were like "ah Vista sucks, XP is so much better" were probably the same people going "ah XP sucks, 98SE is so much better" back in 2001. :sarc:

 

[brooksters]

I ran vista on my machine for quite a while and even made a new partition to put 7 on until such time as I was convinced that it was as good as vista if not better lol, I liked vista quite a bit and found that most people that didn't like it were actually clueless, ask them about why they didn't like it and back them into a corner pushing the issue and most people had no clue what was bad or good about vista they were just spouting off other peoples dislike lol