For those thinking of upgrading to Windows Vista...
...DON'T. Stick with XP, 98, your old Amstrad, your ZX spectrum, your slide rule, whatever. If you want a stressful life then get a crack habit, or get convicted of a sex offence and ask to be put in the main wing at the Scrubbs. Or cut off your limbs with a chainsaw. None of those things can be any worse than running Vista.

Imagine Basil Fawlty with Tourette's. That's me after I've been running Vista for an hour. In short, Vista is floody, bucking SHITE!

I'm a reasonably competent user and my PC is well up to spec to run this turd of an OS. God knows what it's like for people just starting out.

This is written in anger after a 10 minute job became 4 hours after being interrupted by freezes, unexpected errors (though I should expect them by now) and other general hassles. Of course, I'll delete this post if I ever get to like Vista. That'll be around the time they make me England captain. Or I go out and buy a Mac.
(eesnahk, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 12:46, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Am I the only one
who found Vista no more or less painful than any other OS install?
( Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 17:40, Reply)

Same. There are some things I prefer about XP but after a few tweaks to make it look how i like it, no drama. Its not a bad OS, and neither was XP.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 21:23, Reply)

Vista is nice but
it feels like it was finished in a hurry and they forgot to fix a bunch of things. w7 is what Vista should of been.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 14:21, Reply)

It is a bag of shyte
But no more than any other O.S. Microsoft have made. It's just that they've changed so many security functions from XP, that most old applications and drivers (including those bundled with Vista) don't work as expected.

A lot of XP is taken up with code to make older applications that weren't written properly work. Some of this was dropped in Vista (probably to make room for crappy 'neat' functions).
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 10:42, Reply)

Go buy a Mac
Really, you won't look back and you'll wonder why people get so funny about it.

*expects flaming from Mac haters*
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 19 Jun 2009, 19:11, Reply)

Windows Vista
should be re-named Windows Monthly Visitor.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:00, Reply)

I've been using Vista..
for nearly a year and I quite like it. I only got it for it's DX10 capabilities (not that I can tell much difference). Obviously being an internet geek I didn't pay for it though. Maybe if I had, I'd be singing a different tune.
(Big Smurf Brush me daddy-O, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 19:12, Reply)

What about Windows 7?
Pylowank, buntshovarse or neither?
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 9:43, Reply)