I've been using Vista since the early betas as a lot of you have. I've been switching back and forth between XP and all flavors of Vista. As of right now, Vista just can't hang with XP. I love the look and feel of Vista, but you can get all that on XP if you really wanted too. Vista just has too many issues and is an incomplete product. Even burning a simple data CD can turn out to be a nightmare and take FOREVER and this has happened on all versions of Vista and even deleting a large file can be time consuming and it hangs most of the time. I like to use the least amount of programs possible on my system, this is do to the fact that the less programs you have installed, more than likely the fewer problems you will encounter. If Vista ran like XP, it be the sh**. 
I even upgraded my system to 3GB of ram and still the same issues and performance was an issue, now XP is screaming along with all that extra ram. XP IS much faster than Vista in almost every aspect. I don't want to say its like the Windows ME disaster because its MUCH better than ME. I used it here at work to test all my production programs and they all worked great. But for the average user here, they will need training, A LOT of training. I also had to re-write the login script so it maps my network drives properly which wasn't a big deal, I learned something new and that's always good. I like all the new features, well, almost all. Not crazy about the sidebar so that's gone, CD burning sucks but since SP1 came out, its a lot better, DEP is annoying, and a few other things but even those are minor. I just like my things to "work". And XP does just that, even when XP came out it worked but still had its kinks.
My boss wants to switch to Vista and that's not going to happen anytime soon. I'm waiting for Windows 7 and IE8 to hit the streets. So at this time, both my systems are back to XP Pro.
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Check out what Ballmer has to say about Vista below:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that Windows Vista is an incomplete product, even though the operating system has been on the market for more than a year.
Speaking at the firm's annual Most Valuable Professionals event in Seattle yesterday, Big Steve told the gathered crowd that the unloved OS was "a work in progress". According to reports, he also promised that Microsoft would learn from the mistakes it has made with Vista.
"It's a very important piece of work. We did a lot of things right and have a lot of things we need to learn from," said Ballmer. "Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases."
He acknowledged that "Vista is bigger than XP", but he wasn't referring to the popularity of the product. Instead, he was pinpointing one of the major issues many customers saddled with the product have complained about: performance.
"We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still and that the performance and the battery and the compatibility we're driving on the things that we need to drive hard to improve."
Yesterday's admission will be seen by many as poorly timed, coming just weeks after service pack one (SP1) for Vista arrived – well, at least for some customers – in a manual form.
In mid-March Microsoft issued a staggering number of reasons as to why plenty of people would not be able to get their mitts on the service pack. Issues included a number of security products that won't start up or run on updated desktops thanks to "compatibility problems".
Earlier this week Microsoft spat out Vista SP1 in the remaining 31 languages. Those versions arrived a full month after the service pack first landed for a select few across the globe.
Meanwhile, the automatic version of the download remains missing in action. Redmond had chalked mid-April as the date when SP1 would start downloading onto computers across the world. But it's reluctantly stepped away from that deadline because it "wants to ensure customers have the best possible experience".
Ballmer also accepted yesterday that customers are incredibly reluctant to shake off XP in favour of adopting its unruly little brother, Vista.
"We have a lot of customers that are choosing to stay with Windows XP, and as long as those are both important options, we will be sensitive, and we will listen, and we will hear that.
"I got a piece of mail from a customer the other day that talked about not being able to get XP anymore, and we responded: XP is still available. And I know we're going to continue to get feedback from people on how long XP should be available. We've got some opinions on that."
Windows XP was given something of a reprieve earlier this month for bargain basement PCs not equipped to run the memory-chugging Vista OS.
Ballmer ***** slaps Vista | The Register
I even upgraded my system to 3GB of ram and still the same issues and performance was an issue, now XP is screaming along with all that extra ram. XP IS much faster than Vista in almost every aspect. I don't want to say its like the Windows ME disaster because its MUCH better than ME. I used it here at work to test all my production programs and they all worked great. But for the average user here, they will need training, A LOT of training. I also had to re-write the login script so it maps my network drives properly which wasn't a big deal, I learned something new and that's always good. I like all the new features, well, almost all. Not crazy about the sidebar so that's gone, CD burning sucks but since SP1 came out, its a lot better, DEP is annoying, and a few other things but even those are minor. I just like my things to "work". And XP does just that, even when XP came out it worked but still had its kinks. My boss wants to switch to Vista and that's not going to happen anytime soon. I'm waiting for Windows 7 and IE8 to hit the streets. So at this time, both my systems are back to XP Pro.
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Check out what Ballmer has to say about Vista below:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that Windows Vista is an incomplete product, even though the operating system has been on the market for more than a year.
Speaking at the firm's annual Most Valuable Professionals event in Seattle yesterday, Big Steve told the gathered crowd that the unloved OS was "a work in progress". According to reports, he also promised that Microsoft would learn from the mistakes it has made with Vista.
"It's a very important piece of work. We did a lot of things right and have a lot of things we need to learn from," said Ballmer. "Certainly, you never want to let five years go between releases."
He acknowledged that "Vista is bigger than XP", but he wasn't referring to the popularity of the product. Instead, he was pinpointing one of the major issues many customers saddled with the product have complained about: performance.
"We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still and that the performance and the battery and the compatibility we're driving on the things that we need to drive hard to improve."
Yesterday's admission will be seen by many as poorly timed, coming just weeks after service pack one (SP1) for Vista arrived – well, at least for some customers – in a manual form.
In mid-March Microsoft issued a staggering number of reasons as to why plenty of people would not be able to get their mitts on the service pack. Issues included a number of security products that won't start up or run on updated desktops thanks to "compatibility problems".
Earlier this week Microsoft spat out Vista SP1 in the remaining 31 languages. Those versions arrived a full month after the service pack first landed for a select few across the globe.
Meanwhile, the automatic version of the download remains missing in action. Redmond had chalked mid-April as the date when SP1 would start downloading onto computers across the world. But it's reluctantly stepped away from that deadline because it "wants to ensure customers have the best possible experience".
Ballmer also accepted yesterday that customers are incredibly reluctant to shake off XP in favour of adopting its unruly little brother, Vista.
"We have a lot of customers that are choosing to stay with Windows XP, and as long as those are both important options, we will be sensitive, and we will listen, and we will hear that.
"I got a piece of mail from a customer the other day that talked about not being able to get XP anymore, and we responded: XP is still available. And I know we're going to continue to get feedback from people on how long XP should be available. We've got some opinions on that."
Windows XP was given something of a reprieve earlier this month for bargain basement PCs not equipped to run the memory-chugging Vista OS.
Ballmer ***** slaps Vista | The Register
