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To be honest! At first I was well up for vista and bought Vista Ultimate! but even after the service pack 1 the OS was just so irritating to modify/customize and repair that it drove me too tear out half of my hair and forced me to go back too Windows XP, my main source or irritation was as Rommelp has said the UAC constantly asking me if I am sure I want to do that! Of COURSE I want to do that otherwise I WOULDN'T have clicked it!!! As a Microsoft Certified Professional I find this part of the OS the most pointless for an engineer as it slows down his work by half.

They have pushed Vista to much too the low end of users, home users that don't even know what internet explorer is!
This Rob pegoraro is not listening to the consumers, Microsoft is NOT listening to its customers or even Partners!!! So many petitions, so many complaints and they are still pushing vista through, Sudobash is correct a lot of Microsoft’s consumers are going too linex or Mac!
Right now all my machines are on XP and my Vista ultimate is being use as a stand for my Monitor! When Microsoft bring out another services pack that makes this OS more engineer friendly I will consider going back too it… to top it off not even my job Company are thinking of going vista!

well maybe your an exception but if you wand wgoodman I'll send you a screencast of my computer running ultimate slowly with everything I listed below. My computer is crazy fast running a dual-boot of sabayon linux and vista home...but once put in ultimate...its a crazy amount of sacrifice. It's not worth it plus what do you need ultimate for anyway? Beryl on Ubuntu and other opensource OSs is way better and prettier.

Well what do you expect from some one at the Washington Post, Look at there Publication.

I think that this is all rubbish. Vista should not com on new computers instead of Xp unless they are capable of running vista well. The problem is that it is such a heavy operating system. And if you want to run vista ultimate forget about it. By all accounts my computer is pretty impressive system. I run 4gb DDR2 Ram, a quad-core processor each at 2.66GHZ, and a 512 Nvidia video display card. I also have dual monitors and surround sound but that is pointless. The point is that Ultimate ran slow on my system which means it needs a ridiculous amount of processing and ram or just DDR3 ram. So if ultimate is so heavy it needs a $6k system to run it is it worth producing? Secondly I fix computers on the site and I can't tell you how many people bring me brand new "bargain" desktops from best buy or another store and complain about it running slow. So I downgrade their OS and the performance increase is crazy. All these companies are trying to put vista on 1gb of ram computers and I even saw it on a computer with 512mb ram!!!! I think that in order for vista to be practical all computers with Vista home need 2GB or ram Min, Business Edition 3GB of Ram, and Ultimate at least 4. Either that or they all need to have DDR3 ram and lets face it that probably isn't going to happen. Like sudobash says Linux is gaining popularity with its increased driver support, better software packages, and friendlier interface. Moreover because of windows poor execution of a OS; apple has increased in sales dramatically. The OS that used to be on it's way out the door is now a major microsoft competitor. I think this guy didn't do his homework and on top of that there is no way he is a techy. If he spent the time researching and using systems like us geeks do he would realize the error of his ways.

150 of our computer use Vista, and they are problem free. Program we have designed for Win 98 run without a problem. We are even running java programs that were designed for Win 95 and MS version of Java before the lawsuit. Also on the UAC, just turn it off. There is a setting in the user profile to turn it off. I have found that most people who hate Vista have never really given it a chance. Most have never installed it, and other uninstalled it at the first bump in the road.

Well XP and Vista both suck incredibly... Linux is going to take over because it is getting more and more user friendly and it is free! Also it is 100x better at 3D Desktops with Compiz and Beryl... I don't want to get into specifics of why XP and Vista are so Terrible but the only thing I use XP for is to play games that Linux cant run... Besides that I don't know why you would want to slow you PC down just to keep up with Microsoft... They aren't thinking about you, they are thinking... Hey if we can make an OS that is SOOO New that it has to have the BEST Hardware than we can get these dumb people to buy a NEW PC just to get our CRAPPY OS that you have to pay way to much for... Microsoft you suck and I think this Rob Pegoraro is probably getting payed by Microsoft to advocate them! Why don't learn something better, like BSD....

Vista would have been a better OS if the feature UAC (User Account Control) is not included in it! UAC is the most annoying and irritating part of the OS. That is why most users prefer XP over Vista! If Microsoft doesn't get rid of UAC in its next OS, then I'm afraid that it is also headed the same way as Vista as far as consumers are concerned (Vista hatred)