How much did you hate Windows Vista ?

[steve2470]

I didn't hate it. I was in a very small minority I think.

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[bvf]

1. What's your favorite head injury?

Sorry, but I don't see the point of this poll at all.

[steve2470]

2. for fun ? Why must we all be so serious all the time ?

Good day.

[bvf]

4. Point taken.

But Vista caused me tons of grief when I worked in support.

[trotsky]

3. SLOW

So very very slow. It was amazing how when Win7 came out, the same exact hardware that crawled with Vista screamed with Win7.

Vista should have been released as a "concept" OS, let people play around with it and provide feedback.

[KeepItReal]

5. Lifetime PC guy... Vista on a new Vaio laptop drove me right to Apple

Paid over $2k for a top of the line Sony Vaio with Vista that performed so bad, I tried to downgrade it to Windows XP. But doing that lost standard functionality since the laptop was made for Vista. Argh!

That's when I bought my first MacBook and will never buy another Windows machine again.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Vista was just another installment...

...which I characterize as a M$ "gamma" release. A gamma release IMHO is one where M$ allows the innovation nerds loose on the build and sells the result. Such releases are replete with hinkey issues such as slow operation, compatibility issues and, my personal favorite driver dearth (DD). Allowing all the changes tends to act as a filter and have two effects: first, folks who've paid for the software or bought hardware with it installed are more anxious to get the new improved (and actually functional) OS. Second, the innovations that work (i.e. the ones that don't generate major objections) stay in. Win8, start button gone, metro added. People hated that so start was brought back.

Often, releases that follow what I think of as gamma releases, don't have so much in the way of actual new features, they just lack the hated aspects of the gammas.

This practice takes advantage of consumerism, that feeling we get to need something new every few years like a car. Ever notice that each new version of windows always incorporates changes to the GUI?

To answer your question, I didn't hate Vista or 8, I just avoided them.

[hobbit709]

7. Not as much as I hate 8/8.1

[left-of-center2012]

8. Vista?

I've been using Windows 8 for quite some time and looking at Windows 10.

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Continues to make win8 look good.

[Mnpaul]

10. By the time I started using it

most of the problems were fixed. Running it on a SSD probably helped as well.

[Go Vols]

11. Better than ME?

I skipped Vista.

[BlueJazz]

12. I don't hate it anymore than I hate Republicans. I just want it/them to go away.

[Phentex]

13. Just general dislike...

I didn't like that many things weren't compatible and I hated having to try and figure out new software.

[TheTimmer]

14. When you play a Vista CD backward you hear the voice of Satan

But that's not the scary part. The scary part is that, if you play it forward, it installs Vista.

[PowerToThePeople]

15. I have used it.

supported for 2 more years. Not a bad Windows OS, if that is what you are into

[jrandom421]

16. Vista actually worked pretty well

after SP2 fixed a lot of the large file transfer problems. The biggest problems I've had were device drivers. They were the cause of many headaches with my SoundBlaster sound card and NVidia video card. SoundBlaster finally came out with decent drivers 3 months after Vista was released, but NVidia took at least another year to produce stable drivers. Someone told me that those two manufacturers were responsible for over 50% of all the blue screens on Vista.

[astral]

17. ruined my life.

xp leaks like a seive, windows 7 is the most passable, should i have to choose one.

[hobbit709]

18. XP was no problem if you avoided Internet ExploDer, Outhouse Distress, and Orifice.

[Jamastiene]

19. I never used Vista.

So, I don't hate it or like it or anything, really.

[BuelahWitch]

20. I had more problems with ME than Vista n/t