No way I'm buying Vista SE.

Windows Vista is to windows ME
as Windows 7 is to Server 2003

What are you talking about??

i can see you failed the iq test.

WinXP is better than Vista. I don't want to pay money for visuals. Lots of issues, high system requirements, bla bla bla...

I'm using Windows just to play games. Hope Linux can do this too soon...

unfortunetly not till major developers start making linux versions of games, which will likely never happen, which is a shame cuz i woul switch to linux in a heartbeat if it had the same software base as windows

well bro server 2003 is preaty good
no stability issues or anything like it (but most important NO BSODs)

I don't know why people are always complaining about Vista. I myself have had no issues with any flavor of Vista. Hell my 10 year old daughter has had not issues with it on her pc. I don't know what all the bitching is about. Vista like XP before had a few bugs to be worked out but since SP1 it took care of the minor issues there was. Other than no heterogeneous display ability (why one would mix an ATI card with NVidia is beyond me? and don't say because of Physix!) I don't see the big deal. Build or buy a decent PC and learn what you are the hell you are doing with it and that may take care of your issues.

Vista beats XP almast every time. Thanks to DX10 games run better, system functions are more advanced and easier to use, even file searching was improved. Computer specs sure are demanding in order to run it smoothly, but that's it. Still, each to his own I say. I'm with darthcyclonis on this one.

well people dose not like vista mostly of repacks by Laptop and Pc supplyers (like oem vista) that in some cases cant even update or similiar things and there is lack of driver support
i have oem vista and every time i format c drive i need to fix registry issues so i can update (that is a pain in the ass mostly because on microsoft they give you a registy code. it would be easyer that they make tool for that)
vista takes too much resurces (hdd + ddr)
it is just way to high (so that is why they are making this new OS)

genrage,

I can understand some that buy computers with Vista from a PC supplier like Dell or HP having issues. But as you pointed out that is because they bought a crappy PC with Vista on it. It was not an issue with the OS but the hardware. You get what you pay for.

I guess the people I have issue with are the folks running an old 98SE machine that can't even keep up with XP and then they bitch when Vista runs like crap. Well duhhh! Of course your old PIII with 512mb of SDRAM is not going to run Vista! I see it all the time at work, it is a riot. And when it comes to drivers that has been rectified. The good part is Windows 7 uses the Vista driver platform (like XP using Win2000) so hopefully should not run into too many issues

well what you told is not a truth
first i geted high end pc (at the time)
and it is stated in my info (click on my nick and dont let a year in my nick confuse you i am not a KID born in that year and who dont know what he is saying)
if i recall corectly all new windows oses from year 2000 are based on windows NT platform
(xp = NT5.x and vista is NT6)

???

Exactly what is not the truth? Did you understand anything that I was talking about? What do you consider to be a "high end" PC? Please don't take this as an insult but I gather english is not your first language?

Dx10 doesn't make games run better, stop sleeping under yur fucking rock.

in all games shown so far, Dx10 provides nothing more then a performance drop.

Vista is an interactive operation system with a sleek design and smooth graphics. Therefore, it is only natural to cause everything run respectively slower than XP, simply because the hardware has to deal with the heavy OS in addition to the workload - Everything comes with a price.

I don't know if Vista is more or less stable right now, but you simply cannot argue with facts as the above or as the following:
1.Some programs have compatability / stability issues with Vista.
2.Vista does not feature anything new than WinXP besides the useless-as-for-today DirectX 10.
3.Windows XP is a lighter and very stable OS which offers greater performance gain from your hardware.

You may have a very strong hardware and that is why you may disagree with the "performance" part, but as I don't like to write about things I don't understand, I'm really basing my entire reply upon articles / reviews or even minimal / recommended system requirements(!!) in new games which usually have now 2 rows, one for XP and the other for vista, needless to say which ones are higher.

well you got a point there

get few post back and read