Why is everyone so disappointed with Windows Vista?

[McBeck]

I think people expected more, than just whistles and bells.

The most common reply to why people aint upgrading is : "Why should I?"
They just dont see the benefit over XP.

[Stealth Hunter]

I believe the more appropriate question would be WHY isn't everyone disappointed with Windows Vista?

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by longam

Everyone wants a damn toaster, just stick you bread in and push a button and wala toast. Crap it’s always been this way with every version. I remember win2k, what a disaster that was. XP was decent but still had its problems. Apparently there’s just not enough geek left in people to accept the challenge and end the boredom.

Most people aren't using computers for the heck of it. If I need to do some calculations, order spare parts or make a presentation, I want the damn thing to work - I don't want to spend three hours coaxing it to do the things it's advertised for in the first place.

By your reasonning, if Ford sold car that didn't start, people should just figure out how to fix them and not complain.

[AVGWarhawk]

Yesterday I set my Dad up with his new laptop. This was the first experience with Vista. Really not all that bad IMO. He got a Toshiba dual core 1.7 mhz pentium and 2 gigs of RAM already installed. Worked like a flash with the wireless. It did have more eye candy but eye candy he liked. The clock on the desk with the calender. He is just a basic email person and looking things up on the internet. What sucks is AOL. What a crappy email set up.

[Raptor1]

The drawbacks soon become obvious, and by that time, it's already too late

Well, if you can deal with the general instability, I guess it's not THAT bad...if you're just an email-web user that is

[Stealth Hunter]

That's like in all these gaming magizines I order for their news sections, they advertise for computers that are around $1,500 bucks (that's if you buy the standard version; you have to pay extra if you want specific parts and chips to be put in/removed). Yeah, they've got a great format (lots of space, good processor, etc.), but they ALL HAVE VISTA. I'm amazed they don't revert back to Windows XP, but then again, it's all about looks anymore...

Vista is one of those cheap and easy to make operating systems that gets thrown out quite quickly and in an unfinished format to be marketed at expensive, BS prices. It focuses all on eye candy and not on substance. A lot of software, extensions, and such aren't compatible with it, so it's generally not worth the price you pay for it. I got a free version when I purchased my computer (the one I'm on now), but after finding out more about it, I didn't install it. I sold it on E-bay (in February 2008, mind you) and made $150 bucks easily.

[HunterICX]

Why I'm dissapointed?

*Lay out - Crap, things took longer to find, just couldnt get used to it after using it a while on my friends Notebook
*It seems that Vista has the taste of a teenagers MSN with all the flashy stuff on the screen.
*I like it basic and simple like XP
*I DONT want the darn thing ask me permission for everything I do!
*I DONT want that thing to suck up twice the amount of memory then XP does, how can they call it a improved OS?
*I DONT want to spend more money to M$ then I should have done with XP 64bit a couple of months due their lies and attempt to control everything you want to do on YOUR PC.

these are the main reasons

HunterICX

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

The drawbacks soon become obvious, and by that time, it's already too late

Well, if you can deal with the general instability, I guess it's not THAT bad...if you're just an email-web user that is

My dad is 74 years old. If he can figure it out and surf with impunity using Vista, anyone can. I think the OS is fine.

[FIREWALL]

I don't understand why ANYONE complains and then turns around and still buys BILLY'S latest whore.

Billy G the worlds Greatest Pimp. He has the buying public continualy buying his latest Hookers and help him turn them into Ladies.

You are what's known as a JOHN. (beta tester)

I have XP and it works fine. And I have no doubt in my mind that I will buy Vista.

But I shure as hell won't whine about it.

I was wise to Billy G when I walked into the store :p

I knew he was a Pimp and will always be one.

[seafarer]

I'm just curious about when is MS going to wake up to the fact that they really need to indeed throw the baby out with the bath water, and start afresh. Legacy junk code and insistence on maximum possible backwards compatibility is the 2000lb gorilla on the backs of Windows OS developers.