I dunno... I know that I've never had a significant problem with Vista. I'm even happier with Win7, of course, but I never understood all the Vista hate.
- Roger Benningfield
Roger, that's what I'm talking about - probably some people have had some huge problems but I'm not really sure everyone has so what's the point in all the public hate.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Nah - for a lot of people, Vista monkeyed things up (gamers) or was enough of a shift in security/ui/etc that it was difficult to handle. I used it at work, and liked it better than XP on most days. Really like Win 7 - it feels more polished.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Jennifer, I really have no doubts that Vista posed some difficulties to many but my point is that it should not be everyone actually - yet the hatred chorus seemed to be too well organized.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Oh, definitely agree on that - the tech press I think had a really high population of people that had problems with their own personal machines, and that translated to a lot of complaining. Once that idea took hold, you add in the Mac v PC ads, and the general public suddenly starts thinking it is the most horrible thing ever.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yes, I guess the explanation is that geeks (i.e. tech press people) normally expect their machines to do more than a regular person needs and they also invariably try to crash everything - just to test. So everything combined we now have the results that we have.
- Svetlana Gladkova
@joewilcox Yes, and probably less initial enthusiasm as well - too much hype usually turns into too much hate if bugs are found.