Still, you’d think MS would wake up and learn how better to implement an OS, huh? I guess that’s another topic, entirely

The problem is that people want to see “revolutionary” changes without breaking any of the existing apps and drivers. I just don’t think it’s possible to come out with a major new operating system without breaking things. Even Apple couldn’t do it with Leopard despite having a much smaller hardware base that they had to make sure worked.

I want to switch to 64-bit really bad, but I haven’t had the time to prepare myself for all of the problems I’ll probably have.

Nope, that’s worded correctly. I was trying to say that here we are a year after Vista’s release, and the same thing was happening to XP a year after it was released.

Wow! Now that is impressive. I’ve reinstalled Vista twice in the last year that I’ve been using it, and that is really good for me. I don’t even know why I reinstalled it because it was running great, but I think it is out of habit from when I was running XP. With XP I reinstalled about every 2 or 3 months because things would really start to slow down.

Huh, I get about one or two UAC prompts a day, and that’s mostly because I run Firefox nightly builds that need to be installed each day. But I do indeed have UAC enabled.

No, Vista is not free from nagging popups – on the contrary I’ve never seen so many of those, even a month after getting a new computer with Vista pre-installed I got at least daily (close to hourly) popups nagging about me allowing an action after upgrading some software or similar. I’m guessing you’re talking about what happens after tweaking to shut off those nagging screens…

Yes, Vista is prettier

Yes, Vista has a few new nice functions and still starts up a bit quicker, much thanks to the “wait with automatic startup” option.

No, Win2k was not worse than any other MS OS (most stable I had, and same goes for most people I know who used it), I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re thinking mostly about the evil cousin ME..

No, Vista is still not completely ready and stable.

Yes, Ryan, you are a huge defender of Vista, I know

I’ve been using XP Home Edition for about three years and haven’t had any problems with it, yet. Not once have I reinstall it. Am I one of the lucky ones?, or is XP a very stable OS?

IMHO, I think the latter is true.

Regards,

Omar.-

When winXP was released, I waited till SP2 to use it cause I knew winXP sucked a lot.

The problem is, windows ME is not even recommended by microsoft, so, theres a chance that windows vista be never used again like winME.

Or, people could make like win98+ME, make winXP+vista good features.

Oh well, Im gonna use vista when they release SP2 or SP3 like I did with win2000 or never use it like winME.

Futhermore, what is pointing out is that old story of conservative behaviours many people have, fearing what’s new for their habits .
And I guess in those elections epoch, you’re facing similar things in United States, much further beyond computers world…
Think you’ve pointed out a very significative tendancy, that directly affects the way firms adapt themselves to it.

[09/12/2002] It’s been about a year since the release of Vista,

Shouldn’t it be “XP” ?

Very nice article by the way…