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Originally Posted by Burninator
What part of Vista was not functioning on realease?
XP was hit or miss, just like Vista is. Some people, like yourself had no problem with the transition, others had a terrible time.
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At work, we installed Vista on my boss's laptop at his request so he could test it. After less than a week, he requested we restore him back to XP. He complained that all his applications were running noticably slower. Installing Adobe Reader took over 20 minutes. Photoshop took even longer to install, before eventually returning an error (the "Shared Components" installed properly but the application itself did not).
I installed Vista on my home computer shortly after launch and ran it for abour four months until I replaced a few hardware components and Windows deactivated itself. To reactivate it, I had to call Microsoft, but upon dialing their 800 number, I discovered that they only operate during normal business hours M-F. Since this was on a Saturday, and I didn't want to go the rest of the weekend without a working computer, I re-installed XP. After reverting to the older OS, I discovered that there wasn't a single feature -- NOT ONE THING -- that I missed about Vista. Even if driver and application support on Vista was as good as it is on XP (and it's not by a long shot), there's still no compelling reason at all to upgrade at this point, apart from the irrational desire to be running the "latest and greatest".