[Azselendor]

That is so true.

I helped a friend get his computer up and running after it crashed. Dell force-fed him Vista. He couldn't use it. Constantly cussing his computer. I used it with no problems (once I figured out where things moved to) remotely. After a week of him not being able to use it, it downgraded to XP.

He won't stop cussing it.

He doesn't understand why I can use it so easily and with few hassles.


I bought my first XP-run machine when XP first came out with SP1 for it. I haven't reformatted it or anything since. Almost 7 years and it turns on a dime. Meanwhile the computers used by my office mates and family have to be cleaned out and reformatted every few months.

In fact, my office mates started demanding macs be installed, but the owner didn't want to splurge the money on what he felt were over-priced linux computers. So he had me install window blinds on all the computers with the mac theme. That alone cut complaints about windows.

I do think Microsoft made some bad design choices with Vista, but that happens. You can't please everyone. For most users, Vista was too jarring of an experience from the usual XP. Windows 95-XP were all the same basic design, just updated without moving stuff around too much. XP to Vista was like going from Windows 3.11 to XP overnight.