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Give it time, service pack 1 soon! I got vista untimate as soon as it came out - big big mistake! every programme I used on a daily basis was not supported, more my own fault than anything for being hasty. Dont know if I am getting used to it or i am just impervious to its intrusive nature but it seems ok now. I have to admit, any machine I do any serious work on run xp.
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I don't know why people are having a problem with VISTA. Like I posted earlier in this thread, I'm a developer and a Windows user since Windows 2.0. This is by far the best yet.
Let me state, I am NOT a Microsoft fan. In my line of work, I feel like it's dancing with the devil. The BIG problem is that they are the only game in town that matters. Sorry Linux, Sorry Mac. Like it or not, MS has 95% of the market share plain and simple. When you dominate the sand box, you have to participate or life will be more difficult.
I run Vista Business, Home Premium, Ultimate, XP and Server 2003. I have not found ANY of my apps that do not run in Ultimate and I have hundreds of apps. As long as you are running hardware supported by Vista, it's a NO BRAINER. If you have software that won't run on Vista then you are running software years old and Vista is not 100% backwards compatible. It never claimed to be. Nothing can be. If XP is running better for you, you've either have frikin ancient software OR the software is addressing hardware directly, which it shouldn't do anyway. XP was just more TOLERANT to that crap and didn't complain. Microsoft needed to provide a better/more stable environment and so they tightened the requirements. Sorry, it's what had to be done.
Also... people in this thread are complaining about the .NET framework, they clearly don't understand what .NET framework is about. The .NET framework is NOT a Vista product, it's a Microsoft product. It's meant for Server, XP, and Vista, not just Vista.
No OS will ever be perfect, that's why there are upgrades. DUH. Vista isn't perfect and never will be but it's the best game in town. XP is so flawed, it's a wonder it even works. It still has the same old core that's been drug around like a boat anchor since DOS. Vista had it's origins from NT, an OS cut from new cloth, and came directly from the Server 2003 core.
I grow weary of people and their ignorance acting like they are the authority or the final word.