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100 things people are saying about Windows Vista

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Microsoft's web site offers us "100 Reasons You'll Be Speechless" over Windows Vista. Quoth the copy: "Using Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words".

Vista 100 Reasons Er, yes... searching for words, and finding them. After the initial shocked silence, Vista users (and refusers) are anything but speechless. They're speaking loudly, and speaking lots. Saying far more than Microsoft would like them to. Saying things to make even a Ballmer cringe. Vista has struck them downright loquacious. In fact, Vista users are rediscovering words they thought Mom had washed out with that bar of Ivory so long ago.

Think we're being snarky and making that up? Nope. Let's listen in to 100 things people are really saying about Vista, shall we? (A warning: it gets rough in there...)
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Silellak - 669 days 15 hours ago
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I ordered a new PC with Vista in January.

It wasn't awful. I liked a few of the new features. But I couldn't really understand where 5 years and billions of dollars had gone.

I guess it says a lot that I'm running XP right now.
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ArmrdChaos - 669 days 8 hours ago
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I'm sure that A LOT of that money went into the BS DRM that you can't see. =[

MS is going to learn their lesson the hard way...should never have gotten in bed with the A$$hats of RIAA and MPAA. They all need to spend less time labeling ordinary people criminals and spend more time on an actual model that works...but alas that would take time and effort to which the greedy can't afford either of.
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season007 - 669 days 8 hours ago
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1.2 - hmm i am running vista ultimate
it's good, what's bad about it?
i don't know, i like the search function a lot, its smooth and i enjoy the dreamscene with the balls running....

i agree that i dunno where the couple billions has gone but i really don't see its all that bad...

maybe it is just trendy to say vista sucks....

vista was one of the worst tech product in 2007? o well i am sure i've read somewhere that PS3 was worst for 2006 too...well its not all that bad now, and i think same will go for vista...i mean yea nothing is perfect and corps like sony and microsoft can do some crazy bets on things...but things will catch up eventually...that's all i can say...

maybe they expect the AVERAGE system to be faster than it was in 2007, you know? devs have to predict what the hardware will be when they design a software..for a OS like windows it takes couple years and it is extremely difficult to predict hardware of say 5 years later...well they actually got it pretty close becoz within an year the hardware catch up and most new PCs now are ACTUALLY capable of running vista...

so yea i don't consider it failure, just a false prediction...or they aim it to stay shorter than XP but still a long time say 5+ years
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xplosneer - 669 days 15 hours ago
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2 - My take
If you have a good enough rig then this doesn't matter.
But if you are thinking of upgrading of Vista with anything less then a 2.3Ghz dual core, get out now.
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harry190 - 669 days 14 hours ago
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3 - i've
got a top notch pc running vista.
not really breathtaking i dare say.
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Lord Anubis - 669 days 13 hours ago
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this is what vista was suppose to be

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

and this is what Vista turned out to be

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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GutZ31 - 669 days 8 hours ago
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Vista? more like Piss'ta.
I'm so clever:D

Really though, Vista is a complete failure in my book. Windows XP is by far 400% better then Vista in terms of performance and over all driver support.

I will never go to vista after trying it on my $5.4k(year old now) gaming rig and got speeds worse then a $100 piece of crap box top PC.
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eagle21 - 669 days 9 hours ago
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5 - My mom asked me..."babe, how can I switch back to XP"
And this was after 3 months...lol
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5.1 Frnicatr | 669 days 7 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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grilledgorlupa8 - 669 days 7 hours ago
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One of my very good friends who is mother always told me that no matter how old you are moms will always see you as their baby.
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InYourMom - 669 days 9 hours ago
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6 - Hrm.
Consider the source on this story:

"BadVista.org: Stopping Microsoft Windows Vista adoption by promoting free software"

Of course, like any company MS is going to try and promote their product. Isn't that business?

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate and am having no problems and it does the job, but yeah I'm not "speechless".
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ikkokucrisis - 669 days 9 hours ago
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7 - Website is down...
...well that'll keep everyone quiet a little longer...
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Kigmal - 669 days 7 hours ago
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I got a new PC in January that came with Vista, It's not that bad but it can use some bug fixing.
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The Milkman - 669 days 6 hours ago
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9 - IF!
You got a sh*tty computer dont download it, being there is alot of retards in this world that think there computer can run anything. Otherewise it works just fine for me. I honestly dont see whats wrong with it.

Its newer version of windows! Its not such a huge step up, but it will come along.
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TABSF - 669 days 3 hours ago
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omg you can do all the cool s**t on any linux and more the only reason that im not with linux is because of the game support.

every thing that you get on vista you get on linux for free and its better MS paint vs GIMP, say no more.
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gEnKiE - 669 days 1 hour ago
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My gf has Vista on her laptop and I honestly can't see any reason to switch other than to have DX10. It runs ok, but it would scream if it had XP on it.
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Armyless - 668 days 23 hours ago
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12 - I don't want an OS that hogs more and more resources with every release.
I want an OS that frees up resources for the programs I CHOOSE to install.
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Jrome - 668 days 16 hours ago
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13 - Lol
I really see no problem with vista. My only pet peeve is that it's a memory hog. Other than that I just think people have grown to hate Microsoft and will criticize them for the smallest thing. I don't need my OS to be breath taking...I need my OS to GET THE JOB DONE.

This isn't a fashion contest. If it was I would shell out an extra 600 to get a mac just for looks. Anway..I think they should band together and create ONE universal OS so that we get the best of everything. I'm sick of this.
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