Comments on: More bad news for Microsoft: Vista still sucks!

By: Narf

Narf — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:00:17 +0000

Fuck Microsoft. Just Pirate the fuck out of XP Pro and tell Bill Gates how he can kiss your ass.

By: Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:56:40 +0000

I have found a total cure for all Vista problems – I have wiped hard-drive and installed LINUX! The best yet, and as a free big bonus, I have also regained total control of my PC – without “Big Brother” watching every move!
HD

By: Jay J

Jay J — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:56:42 +0000

As far as I can tell from my own personal experiences vista is just not worth it. In the fall of 2006 I purchased a new computer a dual core XP it was very exciting for me its the first computer Iv had with a dual core CPU with DDR2 RAM this PC made me say WOW this is awsome dual core DDR2! The only thing I could think was this is super nice for a XP. Ok now to the point in the second week in Feb. I went to the local wal-mart picked up vista home premium for $160 did a clean install my jaw dropped when I saw it using 800MB RAM just at the desktop WTF! hmmm… oh gee thats great its pegging both CPU cores at 100% WOW see I knew vista had a WOW that they advertised as in WOW this is a complete P.O.S. so being wise I found the recovery XP disc that I made and put the original OS back on now the RAM is roughly 300MB used and the CPU core at about 0-1% idle ok thats better. Why does vista need so much RAM just idling? No im not talking super fetched I mean actual usage. Why does my dual core AMD 3800+ hit 100% for no reason? Why does my hard drive constantly thrash? 2GB RAM should be enough right? with a 7600GT GPU.
So I give vista another try a few weeks ago I purchased a extra 2GB RAM for a total of 4GB thats right 4GB RAM WOW WOW WOW! Also purchased a 8500GT 256MB GDDR3 for the DX10 I like to game.
Lets do some math
Vista $160
Extra RAM $200
DX10 card $110
And its still junk pure garbage ITS NOT WORTH IT I STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS crazy cpu hoggish memory usage HD thrashing.
Gaming is horrible even if I put in the 7600GT. Microsoft says it supports 4GB RAM get ready for another vista WOW when you discover 3.50GB total WOW WOW WOW.
XP is back on my PC again I removed the extra 2GB ram you see XP only needs 1 or 2GB RAM to be happy and my 3800+ dual core has plenty of muscle. I will not be going back to vista. XP will be on this PC forever Im very upset with microsoft. Lot of money down the drain. I guarantee you my next computer will not have a microsoft OS on it!

My honest thoughts VISTA is Windows ME with turd polish!
Microsoft you have lost be as a customer. I hope you have fun with the money I gave you.

By: Jane Quatam

Jane Quatam — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:18:38 +0000

Apparently the Titanic has sprung a wee bit of a leak. While Vista is buggy, bloated, slow and expensive, it is also unnecessary. Pile this on to the other recent M$ successes like office 2007, IE7 and the wonderful new Zune2 (now available in BLACK!) and one could plot the future of the company on any interface that supports a downward spiral, like say a paper airplane fer instance.

If you stick your finger in the socket once and you get shocked it could be an anomaly, but if you do it 5 times, I’m pretty certain you’ve got a trend forming.

Microsoft is crapped out, intellectually, concept wise, SOL and the marketing department has caught the bug as well, hence such breakthroughs as the “squircle” on the new Zune2 – “the pain continues” line.

As the sun slowly sinks in Redmond,we see Bill Gates in Silouette lighting a cigar with his last 100 dollar bill, is that a tear in his eye?

By: ECA

ECA — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:07:47 +0000

NOW,
the hard part…
TRYING to get this knowledge to the NON-Geeky…
Try to get enough info into their little heads to make a PUNCH in the gut of MS.
If we could make it known, well enough to others to understand, THAT vista ISNT a choice…that any DELL/HP/Compaq, with a All ready installed OS of Vista, ISNT a nice thing, and to call and TELL them that want an ALTERNATIVE…is the only way to let the market KNOW, that we KNOW, that THEY know, that we know, this is a PIECE of CRAP.

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:55:49 +0000

#17 – What are you laughing about? Even if Vista is broken, it still does more than any Apple OS.

Apple can’t game. What else is there to say after that?

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:41:04 +0000

#8 – Forcing hundreds of millions of people to purchase a horrendously expensive, grossly inferior operating system they neither want nor need will go down in history as one of the greatest monopoly marketing coups of all time.

Comment by Cinaedh — 9/23/2007 @ 5:28 am

Well… I did want it… I just wanted it to not be horrendously expensive or grossly inferior.

What I want more is DX10 released for XP and not doing so is a slap against gamers.

By: Jim Shaffer

Jim Shaffer — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:19:36 +0000

Bill Gatus of Borg(Microsoft) reminds us continously…

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

Anybody remember the poster in Boardwatch Mag?

By: Atomic Bitchwax

Atomic Bitchwax — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:56:30 +0000

Whatever happened to Microsoft Bob? I hear this was their best operating system ever, and they discontinued it and forced people into inferior products.

Bob wasn’t discontinued, it was just incorporated into other products.

IIRC, Melinda Gates was the project manager for Bob. It’s not any more like to go away than Basic. (Bill Gate’s personal project.)

By: MikeN

MikeN — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:27:24 +0000

Whatever happened to Microsoft Bob? I hear this was their best operating system ever, and they discontinued it and forced people into inferior products.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:18:25 +0000

Actually, it’s not so bad. If you’ve been unfortunate enough to get a computer running Vista, there’s a website you can go to where you can download and burn a CD image that will make your computer run faster, it will install an office suite for you, a better browser than IE, AND you won’t get viruses.

http://www.ubuntu.com

By: OvenMaster

OvenMaster — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:07:49 +0000

C’mon, people. Buy your own full version copy of XP in either Home or Professional flavor before they’re all gone. They won’t be around forever, and unactivated discs will only go up in price as time goes by.

By: m.r.

m.r. — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:06:55 +0000

I am holding on to XP for another few years then will probably switch to Mac OS panther. by then it should have mosts of the bugs solved.
you would think that with more sophisticated chips etc, that the genius’
at MS would simplefy the process so that the chip did much of the
work rather than the confused user. I think that MS needs a new OS
that can convert old programs and folders to new OS where needed.
I can forsee that Mac will get the idea sooner and give MS a good fight.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:30:00 +0000

#15 vista sucks. Deal with it.

By: woodie woods

woodie woods — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:05:59 +0000

used to beta test for fum, Vista broke me of the habbit. used linux to X vista so that I could take over control and then loaded XP.