OK! First off I am not a Microsoft hater. I have been using Microsoft software from the very beginning. Always been an IBM compatible user. Never thought about switching to Apple. I find Apple hardware and software overpriced and limited. Experimented with Linux by installing several different distros on my computer at different times but always liked Microsoft Windows. It has always been a perfect combo for all the computers I owned and built.
I have no idea why a company like Microsoft makes such a blunder. Last year I tried to install Vista release candidate but it did not work. I figured hey it is not the final product. About a month ago I went ahead and purchased Vista Home Edition. After a lengthy install process with no useful and timely feedback I got it working only to find out that it won't work with my scanner. There were a few other annoyances so I wiped it off my hard drive and returned it back. This again is on my desktop computer I built which is an Intel Core Duo 2.4 GHz with all the bells and whistles.
About a week ago I decided to get a new laptop replacing my Sony Vaio 3Ghz Dual Core PCG-K45 with 1GB RAM. Having had such a great experience with Sony I ended up getting a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ150E. This laptop has 2GHz dual core centrino duo intel 7200 processor with 2GB RAM and 160GB Hard Drive. It came pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Edition. Honestly if I could have found a laptop I liked with Windows XP installed I would have bought that. Giving vista benefit of doubt, thinking maybe the home built computer is the problem, I took this new laptop home...
What a disaster the Vista is... Now I can say with authority. Why on earth Microsoft did want to turn windows into apple OS. Who cares about all that eyecandy. One of the first things I did -- right after disabling that annoying user account control -- was to turn off all the visualizations and aero desktop. I went back to windows classic theme. It still is sloooow. It keeps running out of memory. This has double the memory I had before. I used to work on an XP desktop with over 20 browser windows open while running a few heavy duty apps. I need windows for the multitasking but Vista runs out of memory if I have only 5-6 tabs open in IE7. Outlook Express replacement is so slow I moved all my email accounts to online services. Do I need to spend $3K to get a laptop that will run Vista fast or will it be more waste of time and money to have this crappy os work? It still won't work with my scanner which is not old and I have no intention of replacing since my desktop works a lot faster and smoother with windows XP. I probably am going to install win xp on this laptop or return it and find one with win xp preinstalled. I just can't believe this!
Anyways the point of all this rant is to see if others share my view and go on a new webscotch game:
I decided to try "I'm feeling lucky" button on google with my query "vista sucks".
That is the title of the page I got: "Vista Sucks". Interesting thing is that this page is located on a microsoft platform developer website. Whatever you read there is pretty much my experience. I even forgot to mention one of my biggest complaint: New Explorer interface: I hate it. I think this webpage with all the comments sums up all the reasons why Vista sucks. I just cannot understand the big brains running microsoft. Hey maybe there is a good reason they called this piece of junk "Vista" not Windows something.
I also just bought a new notebook computer, to augment my older pc, running with XP.
I bought a Sony VAIO with Vista only because there were none with XP. I too was nieve in thinking all the neg hype about Vista could be over stated. How wrong I was. This Sony with Vista is vertually unusable. I can make a cup of coffee and a sandwich while waiting for the next screen. I just spent two hours trying to install Norton Internet Security 2009. No Joy. It will not let me install it. It did let me install Norton Utilities but not NIS.
Because I spent so much time trying to get this Sony machine to work, I can no longer take it back to where I bought it. So I have spent hours online on my old computer trying to get help from Sony support. I have been trying to get Sony to support an installation of XP PRO only to be told over and over that Sony would not support XP and my warranty would be void if I tried. It took a long time dealing with Sony Tech Support but I finally got someone to admit that Vista was not working out and that they were working on a retrofit for XP Pro that may be available in three months. Then I found out that after I bought this thing, Sony and others will replace Vista with Windows 7 when released. But not on My machine, because of my June 27 purchase date.
So, here I sit waiting for Sony to do something. I have already purchased Windows XP Pro for this Sony but don’t have much faith in Sony providing support for this VAIO machine. I’m sure that any support will come at a price I can’t afford.
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