[Skybird]

I now belong to the group of people who have not only read how bad vista is, but who since two days know by expereince how bad it really is.

For my old parents whom suddenly had an interest to go online withiout ver having dealt with computers before, I got a notebook with 4GB and Vista. Before I hand it to them and start to train them, of course I make myself familiar with it, but the notebook and Vista.

The ergonomy of the OS is terrible. Simply that: TERRIBLE. I have started to reactivate long since forgotten knowledge about MS-DOS and CMD and use the command line interpreter to do some things. And this in the times of modern WINDOWS! ! Instead of keeping things simpley and linear, everything is stupidly blown up, raised in effectless copmplexity, it seems. Organizing the data the way I want and not like Vista wants it, I found to be very complex, and frustrating. and when having choosen certain options, they get ignored anyway (SP1 and latest updates).

Plus I have had several freezes so far.

I hate it. I hated it after one day, I hated it yesterday, and I still hate it after having gotten off my bed today. What a phoney Vista is. Shiny surface - but don't look behind it.

Much worse than I feared. If even I stumble into problems time and again, how will it be for a total newcomer to computer things? I can't be around every time. I only hope at least that remote cointrol software I will try does function reliably (Team Viewer)

One thing is clear, if the next Window bases on the handling design of Vista and features a further "improved" ergonomy over that that steps even further into that direction like vista did, then it will be even crappier in handling, than vista, and certainly something I definitely will not take into account. for my personal use, once I need a new system myself maybe it really is time to go with Linux and leave this microsoft crap behind, really.

Tired. Frustrated. Angry. Vista. and now I will use the CMD interface to defrag the damn thing to get at least a minimum idea of how much fragmentised the HD is. Not even such proven things like the graphical defrag overview of XP they were able to keep. Damn Idiots.