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[qwertyuiopas]

After XP/Ubuntu dual-booting, I am not excited for windows 7.

Have you ever tried setting up a printer on windows? On Linux? (Hint: The Linux one is fully automated, except for selecting the printer to install, and naming it afterwards. And, unlike the downloaded windows drivers, the Linux ones have the full capacity for network scanning with the printer I had the delightful experience of telling Ubuntu to set up. It did all the bothersome work of finding and installing appropriate drivers...)

[Neonivek]

My Printer cannot update because my computer is a Vista

Its security would pop up and as if I would accept the update, however that interuption fails the whole process.

Ohh and I cannot forget how I have to open up any old games folders so I can save.

[Hawkfrost]

I've never had a problem with Vista, it works fine, I actually much prefer it to XP, and I wouldn't go back.

What I don't like are the Mac ads.  They don't even really talk about Mac.  They just trash talk windows, and insinuate that windows 7 is bad  -  and based on those ads, I would guess that they don't even pay attention to what their competition is doing.  They only convince me that they have their heads stuck in times that are now long past.

I am completely with you on that.
There are few things that piss me off, and Mac ads are one of those.

They don't even talk about their product, they just go "Hey PC, how are those MILLIONS OF VIRUSES?!?"
Ok, anyone who is stupid enough to have millions of viruses shouldn't be using a computer in any case. I never have any. Know why? I protect my computer decently, and don't follow every single link I see. Macs can have viruses too, just nobody bothers making many because most people don't use them.

/rage

[Wooty]

The computer I'm using now came with vista. I used it for about a week, trying to get rid of all the unnecessary flashy shit and redundant confirmation of everything.
Then I downloaded a game and realized that vista couldn't even copy a file from one place to another without windows explorer crashing three times. After about 5 hours of trying to make explorer stop crashing I just reformatted and installed XP.

[bjlong]

My main RAEG against Vista is its excessive boot times. It takes me over 30s to power down my computer, and over 2 minutes to power it back up again.

RAEG.

[Pandarsenic]

As soon as I can get a TB external HD to store my shit, I'm grabbing Windows 7 for cheap since they have their whole University Email Discount thing.

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

the industry I work in decided, not as a whole but individually and exactly in concert anyway, to behave as if Vista was a Boon waiting to Dongle.  Now, 3 years later, Vista is still ignored by the vasty majority of my industry, and Vista cannot even connect to or communicate with the equipment I install and program day 2 day.  Hooray for Xp

[Ampersand]

If you have an .edu email address, then you can get windows 7 Professional for 30-40 bucks.

[Maric]

Vista uses to much RAM.
Windows 7 apparently uses/needs the same as Vista. Saw windows 7 when I took a small scholarship at a uni and didn't find it impressive.

To me XP is still the best of the bunch. 

[sneakey pete]

Ram being cheap as chips, i'd rather something that actually uses more ram and does more with it, considering that having 6gb these days is hardly excessive.

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[Micro102]

Vista doesnt let you play a lot of games.

I got my computer fixed, then got a vista update, then the wireless stopped working and it randomly shutsdown when it goes to sleep.

[Davion]

I have had a Vista 64-bit machine for almost a year now and haven't had any problems with anything.

Knock on wood.

[profit]

I would rage against it... but  vista was so bad and so slow compared to XP it didn't manage to live 10 hours on my machine.... Not enough time to build up rage...  Windows 7... well it's on a separate partition and if I don't press a key on bootup it appears... but... it's nothing to write home about... It's how vista SHOULD have worked in the beginning..... But the start menu system that trashed cascaded menu's annoys me... and there is zero other reason other than directx 10 to be on windows 7.... maybe someday...

Basically Windows 7 = Very Fat and bloated windows XP with face lift...

Windows Vista = More annoying version of windows ME

[MagmaDeath]

Vista is horrible. So many stupid pop up windows, having to run everything as an administrator for it to work, its so slow... And it took me 8 hours to get Freelancer to work on it. Admittedly most of that time was installing and uninstalling it, but really...