Windows Vista...

Just been to a client who has had real difficulties using windows vista on his network, has gone back to Windows XP.

Have microsoft got some real problems with this?
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I have heard of quite a few cases where people have called the reliability of Vista in to question and have experienced difficulties like you mention above.

It certainly seems to be influencing people's choices: one of my clients recently bought a new laptop and actively decided to stick with an XP model rather than one of the new Vista machines to avoid such issues...
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Not a technical person, however I have noticed a fair few articles in the newspapers since Vista launched claiming there are quite a few bugs in it and therefore people sticking with Windows XP machines for now.

Chris

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Normally microsoft products settle down after the first year
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I have been using vista for the last 6 months and never had any problems with it. Seems to be an excellent program.

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I've been using Vista for 2 months now and have been experiencing some problems here and there. However, it seems pretty good overall and i'm sure the problems will all be fixed comes service pack 1 & 2.

For Garden Fence who has experienced no problems, try unzipping a file using windows own decompresser, notice anything funny ;-)
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Hi,
I haven't tried unzipping any files as yet but just like garden fence I have had no problems either. Been using it for about 3 months.
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Just bought a Vista based laptop for a Christmas present for someone, so hopefully there will be no problems with it!

Chris

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It's always hard to separate the fact from the fiction with stories such as this... many people have no doubt had problems but it's hard to scale the true size of the problem from the reaction!

Stephen

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I remember the days before nice and pretty operating systems with graphics and mouses... anyone used to have an Amstrad with that bright green screen or is no-one else here old?!

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Hey Lianne

You dont have to be that old to remember those things! We had em at school before windows 3.1 came about with those nasty 186 machines...

Matt
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Green screens? Sounds awful. I don't remember those days

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I can still remember my excitement when I got my first state of the art colour screen, which meant I could play flight simulator and see more than just white lines on my old 80286.
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Windows vista is the advanced version of the microsoftwinrows....of courde it failed ....
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jack

www.windowsvista4all.com

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Windows vista is good....thanks for the information.

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jack

www.jobsforall.com

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Jack - not sure what you mean?

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I am always slightly puzzled by the back press Vista has. I use it, and find it fine, better in fact than XP. Just as when I adopted XP, of course, I spent a month or two not knowing where anything is!
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I have only just got used to XP so think it might be a while until I risk trying to learn how to use that one instead, particularly as some newspaper reports say there are problems with vista!

Sasha

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In a business environment Windows Vista has some issues because anything other than the Business version (or above) will not work on a domain. When it was first released there was also a really annoying bug when sending files across a network because the speed of the transfer would always drop to a snails pace. Turns out this was caused by a conflict with the sound drivers (of all things). Apparently it was fixed in SP1.

I personally gave up with Windows Vista as I found it slow and resource consuming. As Microsoft have already abandoned it with Windows 7, I guess they felt the same way. Personally I think XP was the best that they have made and have since downgraded from Vista. If the only option you can get is Vista I would also recommend trying one of the user friendly versions of Linux - Ubuntu is gaining popularity and I run it as a second OS on my home PC.
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