Microsoft VISTA

[El_Phil]

Group policy and user switching. Well as its just me on this machine why would I care?

NTFS is wonderful, apart from nothing else being able to even look at it, so I don't use it. And all the volume security and other such stuff, yes I'm sure its wonderful for admins. I'm not an admin.

As I said the networkings gotten better. Not as fast as it should and it still could be better, but yes Bill did add TCP/IP. Woot.

Less crashes? Maybe. I had a WinME system that was solid. I realise though that I was perhaps just lucky with my hardware choices, others hated ME and all it stood for. XP on the other hand had to be reinstalled about 3 times in the first month (OK bad stats there as I had misc. hardware problems complicating things. )

And compatability. Well if Bill hadn't changed everything for no benefit (to me at least. I was never a security muppet, I had a firewall and anti-virus) with XP the it wouldn't need compatability.

Ohh shinier. Which in fact means 'slower'.

[Atrocities]

Most of us are basing our opinions of Vista on PAST experience with Microsft products. Lets count them... shall we.

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98 2nd addition
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Professional

Of these I would say that most were NOT what they were billed to be. Hense the execution of Bill Gates in the South Park movie!

[NullAshton]

Shiney is good. Besides, you're not REALLY going to use all that 3.0 gigahertz of raw processing power, are you? Or 4 GHZ, or 5... Eh, you can turn it off if you want.

3.1 RULES! Simple, and to the point. Great for old laptops!