CNet rates Vista one of "worst products in history"


Recommended Posts

Can someone please enlighten me as to why Vista (post updates) is not a mature product?

Because a lot of people who don't own Vista, or can't afford it, or don't want to spend the ten seconds it would take to learn about its new features and how to use them properly automatically want to make themselves feel better by saying it's ****. It's so much easier to say something is garbage then ignore it, than it is to actually use it, get used to it, and appreciate its new features.

Most of these people are, coincidentally enough, absolute morons when it comes to tech stuff. CNet included.

All i can say is lets face it any microsoft OS that comes out will recieve negative attention. Its true every OS they have put out has had some complain one way or the other.

That's because Microsoft's hype machine raises expectations too much. Let's not forget "The wow starts now!" :whistle:

true the wow was not as big, but also remember most of us here saw the potential for vista and didnt see the wow in the final product, but for the average consumer the wow was that they had to adjust to the change in vista, if they had used the original longhorn model people would be too confused.

Why do you think Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 in 2010 instead of 2013 or 2014?

Windows 3.1(93)

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Windows ME

Windows XP(01)

Vista (2007)

Vista is the exception, not the rule. Why does this have to pointed out everytime one of these reviews is posted?

Windows 3.1(93)

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Windows ME

Windows XP(01)

Vista (2007)

Vista is the exception, not the rule. Why does this have to pointed out everytime one of these reviews is posted?

Very good point.

This is strange. I don't think I am ready to upgrade to vista yet. I just built a new computer and I am going to stick with XP I guess.

That's too bad, your new PC will likely run Vista just fine, unless you went cheap with bottom of the barrel hardware and thought 1GB of RAM was more than enough.

The average PC back in late 2001 was something like a 1.8Ghz Pentium 4 w/128MB RAM. When these machines were running XP, of course they were going to be much slower than running Windows Me. People bitched and complained.

Now this average is a dual core processor, most likely 2.8Ghz or something with 1GB RAM. In two years time, when the specs are 4Ghz 'Intel Whatevers' w/4GB RAM then Vista will be flying just the same as XP. Not that everybody here already knows this - but some people just forget.

I'm running Vista on a 5-year-old P4 Northwood 2.66Ghz w/1GB RAM and its doing absolutely fine. The only crashes I have encountered are when I've been screwing around with overclocking.

That's too bad, your new PC will likely run Vista just fine, unless you went cheap with bottom of the barrel hardware and thought 1GB of RAM was more than enough.

Vista runs fine for me with 1 GB. I was able to record a show in MCE and play a game (Advent Rising) and the recording played fine.

I will get more ram because now the prices are just too damn good not to get any, deals every weekend :D

i respect your opinion, but i can't agree with you, its the worst OS i have ever used

Obviously you never used Windows 2000 before SP3ish in a non-businessy envionment. Or XP when it came out.....

Though, I think the OSes were pretty good, the fault lied in vendors being crappy. Still, they were pretty bad to use. I shunned XP for a while.

Edited by MioTheGreat
Obviously you never used Windows 2000 before SP3ish in a non-businessy envionment. Or XP when it came out.....

Though, I think the OSes were pretty good, the fault lied in vendors being crappy. Still, they were pretty bad to use. I shunned XP for a while.

i used them both and enjoyed them a lot more then vista so far. the potential for vista is there, it's just not "ready" yet for me.

I am staying with XP until the next version of Windows, if that's a repeat of Vista i'm going Mac.

It will be, because just about every Windows before it has been. Then again, Leopard has been a 'repeat of Vista' too so I guess you're screwed no matter who you run to.

Windows 3.1(93)

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Windows ME

Windows XP(01)

Vista (2007)

Vista is the exception, not the rule. Why does this have to pointed out everytime one of these reviews is posted?

3.1, 98, ME, XP are not major revisions. 95, 2000, Vista and supposedly Windows 7 are...

I would never go back to Windows XP. Vista is just fantastic here, and I haven't yet had a total system crash under Vista whereas I often did on XP.

Yes, it has niggling issues (file copy/move :whistle: ), but otherwise it's a damn good OS.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Alphabet Raises $84.75 Billion To Feed Its AI Compute Hunger https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317953/20260607/alphabet-raises-8475-billion-feed-its-ai-compute-hunger-warren-buffetts-berkshire-buying.htm
    • Good point Anti-spoofing protection for cloud mailboxes Anti-spoofing technology in Microsoft 365 specifically examines forgery of the From header field (also known as the 5322.From address, From address, or P2 sender), because email clients show the From header value as the message sender. When Microsoft 365 has high confidence the From header is forged, the message is identified as spoofed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en...g-protection-spoofing-about
    • I sort of agree with you on that. I had a telescope - a real hefty thing, although only around 500CHF - that got me so fascinated about the stars and planets. I would stare for hours, amazed that I could see the craters of the moon or the rings of Saturn in "realtime" (quotations because, y'know, speed of light and whatnot). A friend of mine has a telescope like the one mentioned in the review, and the pictures are amazing to look at. But there is something missing for me. I may as well just go to NASA's website and look through their gallery.
    • As opposed to catching bad press because it's the engine's fault? The engine has all the tools a dev needs to optimize their game, Epic isn't gonna hold their hand to make sure they use them. Also, Epic isn't forcing anyone to use Lumen, Nanite or super high resolution meshes and textures. Just because Nanite can render meshes with millions of polygons doesn't mean you should use it like that, in fact, Epic recommends you avoid doing that. Most of the stuttering can easily be fixed by cutting down on unique materials by using master materials, using instanced meshes, generating a PSO cache, pre-compiling every shader before loading the game and also managing what must be loaded and unloaded at runtime. It's up to the developer to set all that up properly.
    • I think it depends on what you're looking for to do, and the time you have to spare. With my Dwarf 3, I easily spend 3-4 hour sessions; half an hour driving to an un-light polluted place, another half hour unpacking and setting up the smart scope + tripod for equatorial tracking, then 15 more minutes mucking around with settings and shooting calibration frames, spending a few hours shooting, merging with past photo sessions, etc. It's crazy how time flies and I often get home later than I expected. It's something I still need to set aside a good part of an evening to do, all in all. For one session, where you often need like four for best results when it comes to deep space objects. Even with a smart scope like Dwarf 3, regular non-astro photography is still way more approachable to people getting into photography. I find this is a time consuming niche no matter how I go about it. With practice, I can probably begin cutting time here but I think where smart scopes find their home is among people who love to shoot the night sky but don't have the spare time to go deep with the "navigator level" attunement to the night sky itself in addition to everything else. Having said this, _if_ you have even more time to spend on this hobby, it will probably be even more rewarding to do it more by hand and learn the skies and the details of how it all works.
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      DJC50PLUS earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      DJC50PLUS earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Proficient
      Eric Biran went up a rank
      Proficient
    • Dedicated
      Conjor earned a badge
      Dedicated
    • Week One Done
      Windows Guy earned a badge
      Week One Done
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      493
    2. 2
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      246
    3. 3
      Steven P.
      72
    4. 4
      +Edouard
      69
    5. 5
      neufuse
      68
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!