Vista's not actually all that bad, really. Obviously, it was a load of old toss when first released, with numerous painful bugs which made it more or less unuseable - but as of SP2, it's stable, quick enough, pretty enough, and generally not a bad OS. The 'Project Mojave' experiment rather confirmed that its major failing was one of image (Microsoft's fault for initially shipping a pre-alpha and hoping no-one would notice), not functionality.

That said, it's slower than XP and not as pretty as 7, so fuck it.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:37, 1 reply)

Nope, its still shit
Updates have a habit of fucking up internet connections. Updates fuck up virus checkers. Its slower than 7. It updates and then won't start windows. I see at least 3 laptops a week with vista on every week (thankfully its now that low) and the fix is always the same, remove the updates. Its just shit and I wouldn't put even the latest version anywhere near my own PC.
( Peej, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 12:25, closed)

It was typically only wireless that got fucked up, even when that was true, which it no longer is. Yes, it's slower than 7 - but not so much that it's worth forking out for 7 on a middling-vintage lappy which is already running Vista. Removing updates isn't a 'fix' - it's avoidance, and potentially dangerous depending on the update. A fix is finding the incompatability and sorting it out. Updates, in and of themselves, break neither vista nor virus checkers. When previously-working programs cease to work after an update, it's generally because a previously-broken thing has been fixed within the OS, causing it to function slightly differently - but things can't stay broken simply to retain compatability with programs whose developers can't be arsed to patch their product. Glitches ain't always the fault of the OS.

I don't use vista, but I do have to support it, and whilst it has very little to actually recommend it over XP or 7, it really ain't that bad anymore.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:27, closed)