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Originally Posted by samir13k
I'm with you on this one... once you get vista fine tuned to where you like it (i.e. set up security and defaults) it is not as bad as the reviews have been saying it was. I personally refused to install XP on my Vista computer, but i see where it had its problems when it was a new release. At least it was a bigger hit than Windows ME...(I invested in that one too...didnt do anything spectacular though!)
Mainly i think people were not ready for such a dramatic change as Vista was.
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From my experience, the people who thought vista were ok were the ones who bought a whole new computer from a vendor.
The people who disliked vista were the enthusiasts and system builders that like choosing their own components, and the ones who upgraded their operating system without changing components.
Group one generally didn't have many problems since vendors like dell tested everything and made sure all the drivers worked. Group two had an absolute nightmare because so many components simply didn't work. That's what people liked about xp - it simply worked with nearly everything.
Most folks don't remember though that XP didn't work that way when it started out!