Just installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate

[Don]

Hey gang,

Have been reading these forums basically since Vista's release, and have
been hesitant to purchase it.

I finally decided, to get another hard drive, and purchase Vista Ultimate
retail full version, and install the 64 bit version to run in a dual boot
environment , with my XP Pro 32 bit, leaving the XP Pro as my main primary
OS for a while.

I got it installed yesteray afternoon, and have been playing around with it.

While it is certainly different than XP, I can say the more I use it , the
more I like it. Seems to be pretty robust on my system, and no issues so
far. And I really like, having all my 4gb of ram recognized.

I am pleasantly surpised so far, I was expecting it to be worse than what I
have seen to date based on all that I have read. Certainly, there are things
I don't like as much about it, and other things I like better, but for now I
am enjoying getting used to it and messing around with it.






--
Don

EVGA 780i MB
Intel Core2 Duo E6600 @ 3.3 ghz
Zalman 9700 NT Heatsink/Fan
4 gb PC 8500 Corsair Dominator Ram
BFG 8800 GTS 640 mb video card
Soundblaster XFi Extreme Music Platinum

 

[AlexB]

There is a vicious and totally not objective crowd in this forum that spread
total lies and unfounded criticism about Vista. IMHO they have divergent but
mostly sinister motives. There are some malware pushers and writers, people
who make their living by emailing phishing stuff, or just spoof. Then there
are more sophisticated individuals who develop spyware and Trojans. They are
the most vociferous. They would say that those who advocate Vista endanger
the whole community by promoting "insecure" OS.

Then there are Linux and Ubuntu trolls who hate MS and wish it all possible
ills. These idiots on the other hand admire Google, a company that is
bigger, mightier, more capitalistic, etc. Google gives people overall much
less than MS, and historically MS has accomplished a great deal more. I am
wondering if one day Google buys MS, what are those loonies going to do?
They cannot switch their hatred toward their admirable Google! They will be
left with no purpose in life.

Then there are legitimate software vendors who have small web sites selling
some add-ons, or stand-alone applications what can do what sometimes even
DOS can do easily but people have no idea about those resources. Vista has
expanded its add-ons, services, APIs to such an extent that many of those
functions are now available in house and in Windows. Those people are in big
trouble. They try to save their meal ticket. One example is Acronis and
Elephant Boys computers. They do not oppose Vista overtly but never mention
the fact that the same functions and options are available in Vista.

And the last category consists of people who just do not have enough brains
to handle Vista. Since it is impossible for them to admit their inadequacy
they think that MS screwed up and developed a system that is simply bad.

Vista is a great OS. It is not to say you won't have any problems with it
until you got a hang of it firmly. It might take some time but it is worth
it.

 

[Mick Murphy]

Don, alexB is the main resident idiot!

 

[Dick Hurtz]

There is a vicious and totally not objective crowd in this forum that
spread total lies and unfounded criticism about Vista. IMHO they have
divergent but mostly sinister motives. There are some malware pushers and
writers, people who make their living by emailing phishing stuff, or just
spoof. Then there are more sophisticated individuals who develop spyware
and Trojans. They are the most vociferous. They would say that those who
advocate Vista endanger the whole community by promoting "insecure" OS.

Then there are Linux and Ubuntu trolls who hate MS and wish it all
possible ills. These idiots on the other hand admire Google, a company
that is bigger, mightier, more capitalistic, etc. Google gives people
overall much less than MS, and historically MS has accomplished a great
deal more. I am wondering if one day Google buys MS, what are those
loonies going to do? They cannot switch their hatred toward their
admirable Google! They will be left with no purpose in life.

Then there are legitimate software vendors who have small web sites
selling some add-ons, or stand-alone applications what can do what
sometimes even DOS can do easily but people have no idea about those
resources. Vista has expanded its add-ons, services, APIs to such an
extent that many of those functions are now available in house and in
Windows. Those people are in big trouble. They try to save their meal
ticket. One example is Acronis and Elephant Boys computers. They do not
oppose Vista overtly but never mention the fact that the same functions
and options are available in Vista.

And the last category consists of people who just do not have enough
brains to handle Vista. Since it is impossible for them to admit their
inadequacy they think that MS screwed up and developed a system that is
simply bad.

Vista is a great OS. It is not to say you won't have any problems with it
until you got a hang of it firmly. It might take some time but it is worth
it.

I agree with you. I switched from OS X to Vista. I really enjoy using Vista
and I think it's a great product. A cottage industry has sprung up dedicated
to Vista-bashing, and most of it is completely unfounded.

Here is a good blog post on that topic:
http://blog.libertech.net/blogs/lketchum/archive/2008/02/20/scratching-my-head.aspx

 

[PNutts]

Your experience the same as most. There is certain hardware that is
problematic, but Vista is the only OS that works with no tweaks on my rig
(including XP).

 

[DanS]

Vista has expanded its add-ons, services, APIs to such an
extent that many of those functions are now available in house and in
Windows. Those people are in big trouble. They try to save their meal
ticket. One example is Acronis and Elephant Boys computers. They do
not oppose Vista overtly but never mention the fact that the same
functions and options are available in Vista.

Wrong again. Your 'one example' is just one example of your limited
knowledge.

FDisk can NOT non-destructively re-partition HD space, while many 3rd party
utils can.

Dolt.

 

[DanS]

I agree with you.

Let me congradulate you on being the first person to ever agree with
AlexB.

I switched from OS X to Vista. I really enjoy using
Vista and I think it's a great product. A cottage industry has sprung
up dedicated to Vista-bashing, and most of it is completely unfounded.

Here is a good blog post on that topic:
http://blog.libertech.net/blogs/lketchum/archive/2008/02/20/scratching-
my-head.aspx

Again ? This is the blog that starts out.....

'We are a full service technology company. We build computers, laptops,
media centric systems, and servers. We build and manage the networks we
build the computers to run in. We host a wide variety of services and we
build a lot of software - custom Decision Control Panels, a complete ERP
and just about everything in between. We operate our own datacenters and
we sell bandwidth; our own circuits and related products and services. We
are Microsoft Partners, and we have partnering relationships with many
others, AT&T (we miss you Bellsouth), Verizon, Packet8, WiLife, and a
dozen other smaller companies.'

What about the other 95% of users ?

To throw in a car analogy, this is like a professional mechanic wondering
why customers that aren't mechanics, can't fix their own cars.

 

[Don]

While I have just installed Vista , I have been reading these groups for
some time, and have a pretty good idea who to ignore in these forums....