I love vista. the look of it is awesome. i was a lil scared at first to buy computer with it but now that i have it i'm glad I do. VISTA ROCKS!!!

A bit vague, no? There are many who believe the opposite even though they haven't even touched it yet. When you make a topic about something you like, it does help if you explain yourself more.

Try to explain what you like and what you don't like, this helps others who are still in doubt .
Personally, I'd describe Vista as 'okay', a bit slow, a bit overdone but when configured correctly it does what is should do, working

Vista=Slow

My computer= A workstation! from Dell!

Workstation= A very powerful computer used to make 3D animations and program nex-gen games!

Vista also= Crash v2.0! Now with the ability to corrupt important system files!


Okay, Vista is fine for the average user, but for a Network Admin, this is just another frustrating release from Microsoft. The last good OS (in my opinion) was Windows 2000.

My first vista experience was with a friends laptop. I hated it before and i still hate it. Yeah sure it looks nice and all but really it gets annoying how they have the whole virtual folder and real folder stuff, i personally have absolutely 0 need for virutal folders so that is another reason to add to the already huge list.
Some other examples such as driver incompatibility are shocking. I couldn't even get the laptop on the net because the drivers were unsupported. Lucky it came with a dialup modem though to use the backup dialup account.
Other stuff such as gaming. I am a gamer and i can say that the performance is WAY below what i'd expect, the core OS stuff takes up too much resources that drain game performance.

As i have mentioned before i have absolutely 0 interest in upgrading to vista anytime soon, might wait until SP2 or something comes out for it

-HellFire

Well i invested in this software as it was the THING to have but i was not as happy about it as you seem to be but if u brought a computer (laptop) with it in then you have basically paid out for a laptop with it in but if you are installing it may i suggest you stay with XP as it laggs your computer up yes it may look better but other than your self and screenies why pay for it other than the fact that Microsoft will not be supporting XP after i think they said 2010 but by then it will be normal for everyone to have Vista or even another new operating system but if u want it may i suggest you use a Vista Transformation Pack 6.0 as that does not lagg your computer up and does basically the same

I find Windows Server 2003 the best Windows ever. Rock solid, super fast, not much headaches (except that disabled UPnP!!)

xboxrulz

I'm happy with XP, it does what I need it to and that's all I really care about. Given what other people have said about vista I have no plans to upgrade, especially with the security.

The reason why I run Vista is because I need the newest Windows Movie Maker to get the Nero plugins to work with it. The Movie Maker in Windows XP doesn't work with them.

Another reason is that they streamlined the Run As function, which I use very regularly. Other than that, aside from gaming, there's no other reason to run Vista this year.

xboxrulz

I've heard that the Windows Vista OS is very laggy, and right now annoying. I plan on getting a Windows XP Pro 64-Bit OS. For what i use the computer for, im already used to this windows setup, and do not want to deal with the trouble of figuring out where everything is, though its probably similar. I still want to get vista though because it looks good, and i wanna try it out, even though people are trying to tear it apart lol. Well, hopefully microsoft puts more time into vista and makes it .. better ?