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Originally posted by Purrybonker
not sure why all the handwringing over Vista. PITA? How so?

Vista is quicker to boot.

This is true. I enjoyed the quick boot-up of Vista. Unfortunately, restarts were glitchy. Sometimes (on 2 different laptops) the restart would freeze. I had to force a shutdown.

has been relatively (compared to XP) trouble free since it's broad release.

WRONG wrong wrong wrong. How you formed this opinion I can't even imagine. Walk into any computer retailer, find an honest, knowledgeable computer guy and he'll tell you the truth. There has been a deluge of returned Vista machines. The general public hates Vista - and not because we're all idiots. It sucks. Vista was released too soon and MS's focus has changed to security and copywrite issues-not user friendly and versitile OS's.

The only negative about Vista I've found is non-compatibility with my old Epson scanner (I blame Epson for not offering a driver). Also, I'm disappointed in OEM makers like ASUS and nVidia for being unreasonably slow out of the gate with drivers and properly configured hardware for Vista - particularly 64bit. Even MS is slow in properly supporting the 64 bit version though.

My two were incompatible with pretty much anything I threw at them including new software that proclaimed itself "For Vista!". It wouldn't consistently communicate with my home network, and it won't work with pretty much all of my software. I was particularly offended by the pop up message stating that my programs were being "blocked" when I tried to load them because Microsoft deemed them unsuitable. It was glitchy beyond reason, and even those that sell it say to wait 6 months. My bet is it still blows then.