Hands Up If You Hate Vista!

beaujolais-nouveau

MoneySavingStudent wrote: »

Im getting more and more frustrated with vista! ... Can anyone help me? Im abit stuck!

I can't help but I do commiserate. All the problems with Vista reported everywhere on the web - on-line fora, The Register, etc - have persuaded me that the next machine I buy will be a Mac (because all new PCs now have Vista pre-installed). I have bought PCs for more than 20 years but I just don't have time to beta-test Vista for Microsoft.

Millionaire

zappster1966 wrote: »

See, Bainy, this is where you & I differ.

If I splash out on £800 worth of new kit I expect it to work. I expect Vista to work with a 6 month old printer. I expect it to work with a 1 year old digital camera.

It might be the dogs !!!!!!!! as an operating system but if i can't get everything else to work with it the operating system becomes the problem, pure plain & simple. I haven't got time to hang around while some teenage scribblers code up all the drivers. The shop should have told that all those cutesy little Vista compliant stickers were a load of monkey testes.
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Its not the OS its the manufacturers of the printer and digital camera that you should be displeased with.

The code for Vista was released ages before it got officially released, so the question is why didn't these manufacturers bother making the drivers?

Out of curiosity, since Vista has been out for over a year and you brought printer thats now 6 months old didn't you check it was compatible and why have these manufacturers not released the drivers for it, is what you should be asking.

What printer and digital camera is it??

Conor_3

Millionaire wrote: »

Its not the OS its the manufacturers of the printer and digital camera that you should be displeased with.

The code for Vista was released ages before it got officially released, so the question is why didn't these manufacturers bother making the drivers?

Out of curiosity, since Vista has been out for over a year and you brought printer thats now 6 months old didn't you check it was compatible and why have these manufacturers not released the drivers for it, is what you should be asking.

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Hear hear. Vista has been available to hardware manufacturers for nearly 3 years so they've had no excuse. As for a 6 month old printer not being Vista compatible, that's just completely inexcusable.

jaydeeuk1

Exactly Bainy! Good to see someone with common sense. People moaning about Vista because their printers or older software doesn't work should have done their research first. It would be like someone buying a Honda hydrogen fuelled car and then moaning to honda that they can't get it to run on petrol.

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zappster1966 wrote: »

See, Bainy, this is where you & I differ.

If I splash out on £800 worth of new kit I expect it to work. I expect Vista to work with a 6 month old printer. I expect it to work with a 1 year old digital camera.

It might be the dogs !!!!!!!! as an operating system but if i can't get everything else to work with it the operating system becomes the problem, pure plain & simple. I haven't got time to hang around while some teenage scribblers code up all the drivers. The shop should have told that all those cutesy little Vista compliant stickers were a load of monkey testes.

I should done what my mates told me. To wait. Silly old naive me.

Apols, OP. Do what Bainy says. Can't go wrong there. Everythings hunky-doodly-dory in Bainy World. Lucky him.

Well, what issues are you having? Maybe we can help you out if you can be specific rather than bashing something that may not even be responsible..

banger9365

ho no it's vista i want xp ,here we go again more usless postes on vista and xp is better ,when will it stop
i rememder this when 98 came out and xp there where just has bad with drivers,it's simple xp is on it's way out vista is the new kid and the idiot that make drivers should get of there bumms and sort it

Shambler

My system is very stable running Vista Ultimate.

When rarely a program does crash it recovers even better than XP did.

isofa

noonesperfect wrote: »

Better get used to Vista.
From what I've heard, Windows won't be supporting XP by 2010.

No! As per robt's post it's officially supported until 2014 - please see Microsoft's Support Lifecycle.

By then they'll be at least one newer version of Windows to replace Vista, unless by then we are all running a Google OS

donnajunkie

i dont actually hate it but the point i want to make is service pack 1 made absolutely no difference. the slight issues i had at times before i still have.

zappster1966

Okies. I'm not bashing Vista as such, merely pointing out that between February & July last year I had terrible problems with my camera, printer & graphics card due to dodgy drivers. I've freely admitted my problems were largely caused by drivers and that perhaps now, over a year on, things may be considerably better for Vista users.

I wouldn't know ... I've abandoned Vista. As have many others I know. A quick trip around cyberspace reveals we're not in isolation either. By any measurement of customer satisfaction Vista has been nothing short of disastrous.

The powers that be at Microsoft knew that these problems existed ... the class action in the USA has forced Microsoft to divulge internal emails revealing that some of their own executives were non too enamoured with the performance of Vista with third party devices either. Mike Nash, currently a corporate vice president for Windows product management, famously wrote in an internal e-mail, "I personally got burnt. ... are we seeing this from a lot of customers? ... I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine." Another said that "even a piece of junk will qualify for the Windows Vista Capable sticker" ... and we all now know that Vista really does require a good spec machine in order to work to full potential.

I just think Vista's release ought to have been delayed, that's all. Perhaps had they done that & ironed out the teething problems first by liaising with other manufacturers I and many others might still be Vista users. By not doing so they may well have kept their shareholders happy ... but the Vista brand name has been forever tarnished. And so too has Microsoft's.

To those of you having a good experience with Vista, good luck to you. And enjoy it while it lasts. By all accounts Windows 7 will be on sale in mid to late 2009 so get those pennies saved up for all your fancy hardware.

But I've got off the Microsoft treadmill. There are decent alternatives to both XP and Vista, less expensive too if not free altogether.

Keep an open mind. That's all I'm saying.