opinions of vista?

[shindo]

it cant run finalfantasy 7 or 8 without a lot of work nor dos games full screened.
the backwards compatibilty is rubbish

[Lel]

Well at work our entire network system thing shut everyone out because apparently vista had a problem with running somone's home written software, which is a problem seeing as half the company branch is practically software creation and development.

Real bad when the work environment is undergoing inspection

[tympyst]

vistas unwillingness to work with older software makes it a huge failure

[Lel]

I wouldn't say that makes it a failure, however considering the way the industry is going it certainly raises many issues

[TheGoldenBoy]

It's nice to look at, and all of the annoying things that pop up can be disabled (like the ones that ask if you want to run a program...twice).
However, it lacks compatibility with a lot of software, and that really gets on my nerves.

My system uses vista, it's all I've got. It's not great, but it doesn't make me pull out my hair.

[marathon]

wow well i can see alot of people hate vista lol i use it but i have 8 gigs of ram and 2 8800s sli so vista runs fine for me and i havent had any problems with it yet but that doesnt mean something wont come up soon lol.

[JEskandari]

if you are from those group of people who want to run Vista on 512Mb of ram then you asked for some serious problem. but if you have enough ram (at least 4 mb) there is not such problems

I use a Vista 64 bit and didn't encountered any problem with it except some incompatibility with dos and win 95 programs which i solved by Microsoft virtual PC and installing windows 95 on a virtual PC

[JEskandari]

Originally Posted by shindo

it cant run finalfantasy 7 or 8 without a lot of work nor dos games full screened.
the backwards compatibilty is rubbish

Square soft programs have problem running even on win98 it's not vista problem

[broken_wings]

vista is pretty bad but my laptop has 4gb of ram and i put the paging file to 15gb min to 30gb max so it doesnt do too much damage for speed but it sux neterless

[Drachnon]

Vista has both good points and bad points. So far my version seems to be as stable as XP SP2 (or 3 depending on which you use). However it doesn't support a lot of the older sofware/hardware you probably have. However for software emulators and virtual PC's seem to provide a excellent solution so far.

There are some things I would like to see disappear as soon as possible. One of them is that certain directiories on your HD can't be accessed manually no matter if you have administrator rights or not (the only thing that can edit these files is the windows installer which actually has more rights then the administrator :| ) which can be a pain in some cases. One of these folders contains all DLL files meaning you can't just replace a DLL that doesn't work manually.

It has a lot of security popups whenever you try to open downloaded files, installers and remote files in addition to those of any anti virus you might be running. Meaning that if you open a file you just downloaded with firefox in the download menu you'll be asked 3 times if you're sure you want to open the file :(

Still you can expect that within the next few years a lot of software (especially games) will be vista only. Any minor problems will hopefully be taken care off in the first service pack but I'm not sure when that will be released.