Vista Stinks... Here's Why...

[Sirtovin]

Why would I want to pay over 200 dollars for an upgrade or worse pay 400 dollars for ultimate when I could buy a new PC for 400 dollars or save another 200 dollars and get another PC...

I have also heard that Vista is STILL incomplete... It was suppose to incorporate WINFS... But noo... They dropped that back to Server Edition Longhorn... Which Vista was previously named... and than changed...

I am glad I am a Mac fan now... 129 for OSX seems fair than to shell out up to 400 dollars for a full upgrade...

[MrTAToad]

WinFS was dropped a long time ago - partially because it was apparently slow.

Vista is certainly expensive to buy.

[chevy]

Vista is supposed to be a revolutionary product... therefore it is urgent to wait before making any final comment. Wait until the first user's have gone through all issues, wait until Microsoft has made the first corrections, wait until the hardware and the other software is optimized for it. We'll see 12-18 months from now if it really is so bad as many say, or if it's a better evolution of XP.

[andyhargreaves]

All MS software seems expensive to buy, compared to standard Mac apps (not counting pro apps, but you get what you pay for there)

I'm sure the initial outlay is compensated for by saving money buying OS X when upgrades come along and software such as iWork.

Andy

[Mikuro]

Well, Vista isn't nearly as revolutionary as "Longhorn" was supposed to be (I know Vista is just the new name, but the name change came along with a lot of big changes to the promises, so I consider them separate concepts). For a while it was going to be something really new, like OS X was to OS 9. However, I think it's more comparable to OS 8. Both were beefy, fancy upgrades of their predecessors, but both were really the same at the core. And both pale in comparison to the promises that had preceded them! (Longhorn and Copeland.)

Well, it's better than the move from 98 to XP, anyway, or OS 8 to OS 9. Neither of those was very impressive, IMHO.

Anyway, considering that it usually takes Apple a few months to work out the kinks of their major releases (which are not as "major" as Vista), and it took Apple 2-3 years to work out the kinks of OS X, I can't be too harsh on MS.

And honestly, it does look like MS has done a lot right with Vista. And for the first time since Windows 3, they've released a Windows that doesn't have a really dumb name.

[symphonix]

I get the impression that Microsoft have been getting a lot of things right with Vista, which is just as well, because otherwise it would be curtains for Windows. However, from everything I've seen, I'm glad I switched to Mac.

The pricing is pretty high, and the hardware requirements of Vista will require most users to spend a fair bit on upgrades in order to install it. Support for many devices is still patchy, with many people I know telling me things like "Vista is $%#% amazing, man! You gotta switch back from Mac! Mind you, I can't use audio yet because my soundcard is unsupported, and I also can't burn dual-layer DVDs on my particular drive, and I haven't got a driver for my scanner either."

I switched to Mac because I hated wasting my time and money on trying to make my computer work properly - they should do that out of the box, without needing hours of mucking about.

There are a lot of things about Vista that I really, really hate. I feel that the transparency effects in the interface are there more to impress people than to make the interface better - if anything, the transparency makes it harder to recognise which window you're in and what the title is. The Expose rip-off looks like they saw how it was done on a Mac, and then said "yeah, but wouldn't it look better in 3D?" without actually stopping to think that maybe the design of Expose was intended to make windows easier to read and identify. What's the point of putting them in a 3D 'pile' and then sifting through them?

I will give Microsoft credit for getting Vista out - albeit years late, stripped down and still a fair way behind Mac in terms of usability. However, I value my time and money too much to look Redmond's way again, at least for the foreseeable future.

[MacFreak]

How do you guys think Vista stink? You have not try to use Vista yet. Lets hold our breath till we know for sure.

[Lt Major Burns]

vista's newly upgraded security reminds me of a Chris Rock skit

" "I take care of MY kids" - you're supposed to, you dumb mother[hubbard]!"

" "I aint never been to Jail" - what do you want, a cookie?!"