Quote from name:Yoshi
- When I had vista on my laptop it went EXTREMELY hot while idle. XP nor Ubuntu did this.
- The permission escelation is annoying, for the regular user they may not see it that often, but for me I saw it really often.
- The requirements are really high, I keep xp on the older machines in my house so they can still run the games they used to.
- I don't like the tactics that MS is using in regards to gaming with Vista. They make certain games "vista exclusive" although they don't need to be and the windows live service is just an exuse to bring a xbox money hording model to PC gamers.
- I don't know why Direct X 10 needed to be Vista exclusive. I've heard some people say something about a new driver model but that sounds like only 1 vista sepcific feature that shouldn't keep the entire Direct X from going to Xp.
- The jump from Windows 3.1 to 98 was huge (gui completely changed), and the jump from 98 to XP was huge (more stable). The jump from XP to Vista however is not so great.
- A lot of originally promised features in vista didn't actually make it in there, plus with all the problems it makes you wonder if its worth paying all that money for a unfinished product.
Thats all I can think of so far.
- The permission escelation is annoying, for the regular user they may not see it that often, but for me I saw it really often.
- The requirements are really high, I keep xp on the older machines in my house so they can still run the games they used to.
- I don't like the tactics that MS is using in regards to gaming with Vista. They make certain games "vista exclusive" although they don't need to be and the windows live service is just an exuse to bring a xbox money hording model to PC gamers.
- I don't know why Direct X 10 needed to be Vista exclusive. I've heard some people say something about a new driver model but that sounds like only 1 vista sepcific feature that shouldn't keep the entire Direct X from going to Xp.
- The jump from Windows 3.1 to 98 was huge (gui completely changed), and the jump from 98 to XP was huge (more stable). The jump from XP to Vista however is not so great.
- A lot of originally promised features in vista didn't actually make it in there, plus with all the problems it makes you wonder if its worth paying all that money for a unfinished product.
Thats all I can think of so far.
2. It's not annoying as far as I've used it. It only pops up when I mess with system settings or install things, which is the same as Ubuntu or just about any other OS.
3. Valid complaint.
4. Halo 2 is the only Vista exlusive I can think of, and I'm pretty sure that was cracked to run on XP. Windows Live is free as far as I can think of, it's just a bunch of online services.
5. DX10 does use the new driver model, which means that your hardware can either run DX10 or not. It wouldn't make sense to have portions of DX10 work on XP and some parts not.
6. Your analogy skips an OS except for Vista. It should be 3.1:98::2000:Vista. Vista is vastly better than Windows 2000.
7. A semi-valid complaint. WinFS and other features were scrapped early in development, long before RC1.
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