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I really don't like it. It's so irritating. Anyone else decided to ditch vista and go back to XP?

No **** Sherlock!

Personally, I put an OEM version of Vista on my scratch kit when I'm required to write about it, but it's so bloated and broken, I would never put it on anything and use it like XP. Too much simply doesn't work under it.

Microsoft is currently begging developers to get their drivers together for Windows 7 in time for the public Beta release after Xmas.

my new PC come with Vista and I was tempted to ditch it but thought i would stick with it for awhile, I quite like it now, if it ever needs a reformat i would probably just install XP tho! there is nothing in Vista that I couldnt live without.

Vista for me is just that!! It's a vista, something pretty to look at but under the hood it sucks ass! I watched in the early day as Longhorn was being developed and tried out some of the alpha releases. It seems that one day though they just did a complete about turn and changed the whole thing.

My brother bought a new PC recently and it came with Vista. After many days of torment and frustration, he is now back to XP. I thought each new OS was supposed to be an improvement on the last? Talk about one step forward, two steps back.

I have a tiny old toshiba laptop that runs windows 2000 that I let my daughter play with, this thing is great, she can use all her Nick Jnr sites on it and it loads nice and quick

was talking to some people at work about how OS have changed etc, where will the programmers of tommorow come from? I used to stay up all night writing code and making my own games my interest started from having to type in basic to play a game.

I dont think this sort of thing happens today! (and now i feel old)

Ultimately, it's just a PC operating system. There's no reason for it to require a whole gigabyte of RAM to itself. It's like a roadie demanding a dressing room and rider list before he'll unpack the drums. I remember when CP/M 2.2 came out in 1980-mumble and one of the PCW columnists demanded to know what the hell it wanted with a whole 17K of RAM

"640K should be enough for anyone" - Bill Gates

kems wrote:I have a tiny old toshiba laptop that runs windows 2000 that I let my daughter play with, this thing is great, she can use all her Nick Jnr sites on it and it loads nice and quick

was talking to some people at work about how OS have changed etc, where will the programmers of tommorow come from? I used to stay up all night writing code and making my own games my interest started from having to type in basic to play a game.

I dont think this sort of thing happens today! (and now i feel old)

I still have a spectrum 48k and I (geekily and sadly) enjoy using it still (after 20 years of not I must add!). I wrote loads of stuff in basic when I was a kid including a pop quiz which won me a box of sweets at school for being innovative. Kids today see programming as wysiwyg type editors and sadly not enough understand what goes on under the hood. Most programming software also creates a lot of superfluous memory usage so now I'm trying to get my head round assembler language as it is faster and more direct.

I agree that each new OS should be a step forwards, a step better but sadly as end users we get little input. A group of guys in a room decide how it's going to be then a select number of beta testers get to report bugs in what is put forwards and are usually ignored re feature facilitation.

Colin bought himself a laptop that came with Vista ready-installed. I "down-upgraded" it to XP and everybody's happier, including the computer. It can use its talents for actually doing things now instead of just shoving the OS around.

My own laptop came as an XP but I took it down to Windows 98se, since its primary purpose is playing older games. It was only mediocre as an XP machine, but 98 thinks it's fantastic -- so much memory! So much power! Oooh!

Tomo wrote:Microsoft is currently begging developers to get their drivers together for Windows 7 in time for the public Beta release after Xmas.

Public beta of Windows 7 you say? And I haven't even tried Vista yet!

Now, where did I put my copy of the Vista beta....

I bought an intel advent netbook recently. It runs on XP, with foxilla browser and tab add ons - which was the only useful thing about vista as far as im concerned. 1Gb of RAM, 80Gb hardrive. Faster than a greased weasel it is.

£250 quid - aint too bad. Vista on my big old laptop - rubbish. Too much stuff thats uneeded, or doesn't work properly.

I am seriously considering getting an Apple next time I buy a computer. Must do more research first, however.

Replicant wrote:I am seriously considering getting an Apple next time I buy a computer. Must do more research first, however.

You could go virtual and install as many operating systems as you like.

Tomo wrote:You could go virtual and install as many operating systems as you like.

Eh? You been on the shandy with Mandrake again? I've never heard of this multiple OS thing before. Sounds intriguing.

if you install a virtual machine on your pc you can run however many different installs of o/s's