Originally Posted by ngdawg

I had to get a new CPU at work and it has Vista. We don't use torrents, we use legit software and Vista acts like we're punishing it, so it punishes back.
Here's just a few of the issues that make me curse up a storm daily:
1) It dumps programs randomly. Irfanview good Monday, gone Tuesday. Photoshop good Tuesday, half its modules missing Wednesday.
2) Random network dumping. Not just disconnecting-DUMPING me so that I have to go through re-setting it up.
3)Will not allow me to upload interactive Java Script needed for online ordering-PROS and ROES will NOT work on this pc.
4)BIOS is not accessible. This might be an HP/Compaq deal, but it's not accessible to me.
5) The mysterious user factor. I am the administrator of this pc yet I get "access denied" when trying to extract zip files or downloading some exe's. The pc came with a preset user, "wwwww" which I can't get rid of. Again, might be an HP deal.
6) Unfriendly user panel. With slight differences, I can get into Device Manager 2 or 3 different ways. Why??
Other issues included AOL acting so much like an annoying Trojan, I had to delete it entirely(that's where our emails are, so it was needed. Now I go in it thru IE).
Edit after reading skier's response: Out of the box, the pc started up with 55 processes!! WTF??? I reconfigured the startup and still get over 40processes running, due to fear I eliminate the wrong one.

According to my friend, a pretty high up manager in the DoD, the US government runs on XP. Since the inception of Vista, they have been trying to incorporate it and can't. Nothing they have will run on Vista and it has too many issues to attempt the changeover. MS is screwing not just the lowly consumer but the entire government with this piece of shit.

It cost me $1200 to custom order my Dell loaded with XP and I'm thrilled-worth every penny. Not one of my software packages would run on Vista, they're too old(all before 2005). I guess Mr. Gates thinks we're all rich and can afford to replace $1,000's of dollars worth of software because he says so.....and last I read, mega-companies like Adobe are not offering patches or discounted upgrades to run on Vista. If you can't, oh well....shell it out or suffer.

I would at least hope that MS would issue a service pack that would backtrack Vista to accept older software, but I'm not optimistic. There's no money in that.