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Bill Gates went on record today saying looking back 1-year at Vista "a
lot of companies would say it's the best product of the year".
No Blll, we love ya and wish we had 1% of your wealth but the reality
is most people would say the opposite, here's a sampling of the media
blitz on Vista over the past year:
PC World labeled it "#1 Disapointing product of the year"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
WIRED magazine placed it #6 on their "heartbreaking gadgets of 2007"
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/multimedia/2007/12/YE_Gadgets_Top10Letdowns
CNET-CRAVE placed it #10 on it's Terrible products of 2007 list
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
As a Vista owner for a bit over a week now I can tell you whole
heartedly I wish I had Windows XP back. I've been through 3 graphic
cards (cards with 32-bit Vista drivers available mind you) and two
sound cards only to have had problems with all of them. I finally
settled for motherboard based sound and the ATI 2600 HD Pro card
(which even with the latest drivers has strange 'tearing' effect on
some DirectX 10 game applications.
All in all the answer to your question IS VISTA WORTH THE UPGRADE is
(in spite of what some in this newsgroup will claim), for most the
answer is a very firm NO. I'm considering paying $150 for an OEM copy
of Windows XP Pro because it's faster and just runs more stable it
seems, albeit without the bells and whistles of VISTA which are hit
and mist, but not core.
Please do not private e-mail me regarding this post, if you must reply
keep the discussion here where it belongs.
lot of companies would say it's the best product of the year".
No Blll, we love ya and wish we had 1% of your wealth but the reality
is most people would say the opposite, here's a sampling of the media
blitz on Vista over the past year:
PC World labeled it "#1 Disapointing product of the year"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
WIRED magazine placed it #6 on their "heartbreaking gadgets of 2007"
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/multimedia/2007/12/YE_Gadgets_Top10Letdowns
CNET-CRAVE placed it #10 on it's Terrible products of 2007 list
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-10,00.htm
As a Vista owner for a bit over a week now I can tell you whole
heartedly I wish I had Windows XP back. I've been through 3 graphic
cards (cards with 32-bit Vista drivers available mind you) and two
sound cards only to have had problems with all of them. I finally
settled for motherboard based sound and the ATI 2600 HD Pro card
(which even with the latest drivers has strange 'tearing' effect on
some DirectX 10 game applications.
All in all the answer to your question IS VISTA WORTH THE UPGRADE is
(in spite of what some in this newsgroup will claim), for most the
answer is a very firm NO. I'm considering paying $150 for an OEM copy
of Windows XP Pro because it's faster and just runs more stable it
seems, albeit without the bells and whistles of VISTA which are hit
and mist, but not core.
Please do not private e-mail me regarding this post, if you must reply
keep the discussion here where it belongs.