So, after running XP for years with no issues and being generally happy, I was not frightened off by all the bad PR Vista had been getting. I figured most of it was hyperbole. So I upgraded to check it out and be wooed.
Boy, was that a wrong decision. Vista runs like a product still in development. My shiny new PC, with it's killer hardware felt like it was actually a 286.
First, media center which runs like a champ on my older PC, was sluggish and froze up often while just taping in the background. The security interface just plain sucks. I read and figured out how to disable the annoying popups, but really an average end user would be lost, and probably annoyed. File copying is slow. Network devices are misidentified. DRM decided my music should not be copied, nor could my taped non protected TV shows.
I won't even get into gaming, but suffice to say by XP box runs twice as fast on Half Life 2 and Oblivion, with lesser hardware.
I imagine Vista eventually will turn into a decent OS, but for now stay with XP, or buy a Mac. Microsofts newest operating system is definitely not ready for primetime.
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