I've always said that Vista got a bit of a bum rap. I was using it on my office desktop for 6 months of beta, followed by a few more months of RC and then for 2 years of retail (so just shy of 3 years, altogether). I had very, very, very few problems with it.
It's interesting, because all of my years of Windows hatred and frustration have been centered on Windows 98/XP, which are the two versions most people name when they say they're "going back to something more stable."
Don't get me wrong, there were tons of real problems with Vista when it first launched, but a lot of it had to do with the availability of the OS to driver manufacturers and how little time they had to respond to its release.
Having said that, most computer users worth their salt were able to overcome all that stuff fairly quickly. I mean, I managed a complete corporate network with webservers, DB servers, an email server, workstations, service machines, etc etc etc. While everyone else was WinXP and the DC was 2K3, I managed everything from my desktop running 32bit Vista Business (which I later upgraded to 64bit). I even did all my Access/VB/Crystal development, and graphics/website (Adobe products) work from that same machine.
Really, the Vista hate was pretty much just a by-product of Microsoft's business/support model more than actual OS problems.
(All of this is my own opinion, of course.)
Last edited by FanIn80; 10-14-2009 at 04:21 PM.
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I haven't had time this week to back up all my files and make the switch! I will do it this weekend!
