Comments on: Microsoft Vista Service Pack 2?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:16:50 +0000

I was the first one in my Company to use Win Vista SP1 on running all our applications and I can tell you that it is running very smooth better than Win XP, much more powerful, very nice interface, my portable’s hardware (DELL INSPIRON 6400) is not suffering at all (heat wise). For the ones who said that this OS is awful, I will say perhaps it is if you are not using it on a professional level. It needs upgrade so that it’ll meet with all systems, but I am sure that SP2 will be the beginning of the new generation of OSs that are currently under development. Waiting for it.

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:03:06 +0000

Well, well well
doesnt anyone remember when XP gave you a virus just by connecting to the internet !!
Now everyone loves XP - pathetic ! Microsoft has done a good job forcing a bit of security on the world - sure there are issues but at least they were not as bad as the first couple of years of XP.
Hell, they even totally rewrote it - it was THAT bad.
Give Vista a break - now we are going to get Windows 7 - which is really Vista with some changes that could easily be done in a Vista service pack. All this negativity is simply going to force us all to upgrade again, which will make Microsoft even MORE money.
Vista requires higher end hardware and software updates that make the environment more secure - this is a good thing. By the time Windows 7 is out - I bet you all will have new more powerful computers !
The internet is good for passing the word around but its simply stupid to be used for Microsoft haters. Face it, Microsoft on the desktop is simply more trusted and if there are problems, at least you know that Microsoft will endevour to fix them. Otherwise we all would be virus ridden with the first release of XP… and im not even going to touch on the driver issues we all had back then.
Just my 5c worth but I detect an ounce of jeoulousy here ; )
And I run 2000, XP , Vista AND ME : )

By: John Webber

John Webber — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:16:30 +0000

Hello,
I’m a programmer and I’ve been using Vista SP1 for a month.I’ve got to admin,Vista can NOT run any debuggers sort of olly,neither plugins.Programs written on XP will never run on Vista unless you recompiled them on Vista.
Afterall,Vista is a lot more stable,at least that’s how I feel it.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:13:47 +0000

why are you guys so negative about vista?

By: qUICKN

qUICKN — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:58:03 +0000

In my opinion , after reading all the complaining of how good or bad things are, i dont care what you do - if your system has 2g of ram or less ; dont count on Windows Vista on performing well, since it takes 1g of ram to run. And if you dont wana learn something new - DONT BUY IT!!! retards.

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:35:22 +0000

I find this quite amazing, loads of people are just wining about vista all the time but if you actually read their full posts you can see they actually have no idea what the hell they are talking about. Just because something on your crappy machine doesn’t work now that you have installed your downloaded, pirated, cracked version of vista, doesn’t mean that vista doesn’t work or has bugs.Get a Life - Do some research…

By: Kealia

Kealia — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:51:44 +0000

Well, nothing’s wrong with my vista.
keep updating & works well.
as long as you have good ram & processor runs fine

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:07:22 +0000

Linux is the way to go, yep some idiot on here said exactly that! What a tube! Linux is crap, firstly there are god knows how many different versions, no mainstream software written to work with it, and installing hardware is a joke. The same person talked about Linux being easy, errrr, I doubt very much that the average PC user would have a clue how to find anything in Linux. I’ve used it and for want of a better word, its shite!. You lot only use it because its free and you’re too tight to cough up a few bucks for something MS has spent billions on, next you’ll all be wanting a free car. Linux will never be mainstream because there is no continuity, too many individuals poking around with it and making it incomprehensible to the average user.

By: Kumar

Kumar — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:29:59 +0000

Hey guys,
The only demerit of Vista, according to me, is that it’s a great resource hog. I have been using Vista for more than a year now, and it has been an amazing experience. Perhaps, one of the other problems might be the old hardware and software incompatibility with Vista, but I guess, when you buy a new machine, with all the resources that Vista recommends(minimum configuration), this is probably the best OS ever written.

By: darwin

darwin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:55:47 +0000

After a 3 year long installation of windows XP SP2 the system has not crashed one with a BSOD or froze..this is amazing considering that it has not dropped its performance.

I simply don’t need another operating system after XP ..to do WHAT!????! I can do everything with what I have and the system is expandable can have things added to it so it will never be problematic for me to have it installed.

I don’t follow in the trap of changing things when there is no need. oh..and guys common..if windows vista was any good would they have announced the windows 7 release in a couple of years..? I MEAN COME ON!!

By: Rashed

Rashed — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:00:50 +0000

I am using Vista SP1 for approximately 6 months and I am not having problems with it.. I think if you have a good machine with good configuration then Vista would be more comfortable than XP..

I am using Vista Ultimate SP1 on my laptop

Product Brand - Gateway
Processor - Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.60 GHz
Memory - 2GB
HDD - 160 GB
AGP - Built-in (Video Memory 128 MB + 230 MB Shared)

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:33:36 +0000

can someone help i have tried to install office sp1 on my pc using vista of course. sudenly my program crushed….so now i cannot install it on my system what a nightmare….i have tried to uninstall my office and re install it. still is not working…
Can anyone wh had a similar problem can help…all the office update doesn’t work

By: Jamie Ryan

Jamie Ryan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:54:50 +0000

i don’t know why everybody is putting windows vista down the plughole like its an unwanted liquid but i have had no trouble what so ever, windows vista ultimate on my bugdet system that iv just custom built no probs what so ever. every game iv got plays well even battlefield 2 as some people said doesnt work. im sorry but i will not let you be like that to microsoft without me saying something.

By: Robert Cowart

Robert Cowart — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:32:01 +0000

I’ve authored 47 books about computers and most of them have been about Windows - starting with 3.0. I write the Mastering Windows series (Sybex) and Using series (Que). I have used Windows since version 1.0. I now have six computers running various versions of Windows. I have had Apples, including ][e, Lisa, Mac, iMac. I think people love to bash Microsoft because it’s really got a monopoly on the business at large. But I’d like to see Apple come up with an OS that ran on thousands of third-party computers and tens of thousands of hardware configurations. Talk about a monopoly. Apple is totalitarian, virtually, on hardware (and high prices). By contrast, I just bought an HP tx2500 convertible tablet PC with Vista Ultimate, for $1047 at Best Buy. 64-bit OS, 64-bit CPU (AMD Turion), 3G RAM, 250 ATA HD, wonderful keyboard, speech recognition as good as Dragon (built in for free in Vista, by the way), touch and pen input. The Tablet features of Vista are waaay better than XP’s/ Seems to run 32-bit software just fine. Vista rocks in some important ways, especially quick ability to find docs and apps, and security features (although they can be annoying). XP is solid and I use it too, but time marches on, folks. Vista’s device driver model is more stable than XP’s too. M$ is going to stop supporting XP soon, so my advice is to start migrating.

Robert Cowart

By: Vvn

Vvn — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:42:55 +0000

I have used both XP and Vista. They both are stable OS’s. I have used XP for ages not and Vista for almost a year.
I do graphic works on my computer, I have a strategy game of 1.8 gb on it along with Photoshop and tons of pictures and the Vista SP1 never failed me. I also had Corel draw on there but I removed since I do not use much and I needed the space.

I also run an MS-Dos application on it and guess what? It works.

I had trouble with finding hardware at first, which is logical since you have a core change. Now everyone is making Vista compatible products. So Problem solved.

People have no patience to learn new stuff anymore, everyone wants things to just work without any efforts. Well guess what? Nothing comes easy.

Ever thought it might be a user problem?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:43:49 +0000

Are you all insane? So MAC OS X isn’t buggy? Yeah right, Linux is a pain to use and will never be a main stream OS, so there is really only Windows left. And all you guys who get BSOD and lockup must be using old hardware. Vista is a NEW OS, it really needs NEW hardware, so don;t complain when your 10 year old scanner doesn’t have drivers for Vista! Most of the problems people encounter with it are because third party hardware and software designers can’t be bothered to rewrite drivers to work, so is that Vista or MS’s fault?

I’ve been running x86 and now x64 for nearly 18 months and it is superb, faster than XP, DOES NOT lock up or crash. Vista is a lot more intolerant of faulty ram etc so its extremely likely that this, or another wonky component is causing lockups and BSOD’s in Vista. I deal with more and more disgruntled MAC users, especially ones who are going from OS 9 to OS X because, oh yes, they will HAVE to update ALL of there hardware and software because 99.9% of it wont function on their new overpriced MAC machine, just because it looks like it was designed by children, have you tried a simple task like updating ram or a hard drive in a mac laptop recently!!!?

By: ChrisJ

ChrisJ — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:07:55 +0000

I have an older dated PC now but, HP DID release a Bios update for this system about the time of Vista SP1’s release. Before SP1, I couldn’t get Vista to run and neither could MS support. But with SP1, that has REALLY turned around.

I think the truth of the matter is, alot of people who bash Vista and MS are really upset because they can’t join the bandwagon. They want to run the OS but find it alot easier to just complain like the masses.

By: Praneeth

Praneeth — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:28:14 +0000

Vista!!!! Dont Even talk about it! It soo buggy! I bought it of the shelf now i feel its a waste of money … once i tried disk cleanup and my hibernation feature was DISABLED!!!!

Well Guys my best advice is stick to XP till VISTA SP2 or go for free stuff like LINUX. I would sugest RED HAT.. very secure

By: christian

christian — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:24:09 +0000

wow….i’m using windows vista ultimate for 6 months and i can’t complain about it.Why are people so angry with the fact that vista needs 1 giga RAM only for running properly? they do ot think,honestly! I mean,come on people,the PC’s hardware has evolved,should we remain with 256 Mb or 512 Mb of RAM or should we evolve to 1,2,3,4….etc giga bytes of RAM.The computers are getting more performant every day,it is NATURALLY that we should have more RAM as technology evolves….so,my conclusion is that the next OS that comes after xp (which is vista) should NATURALLY have more requirements form the hardware configurations,because any OS EVOLVES…..

By: Carolyn M

Carolyn M — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:13:52 +0000

My newest laptop is an HP dv5-1003nr. I knew previously that I wasn’t fond of vista, but I figured I’d give it a try and see if maybe my first impression wasn’t correct. WRONG. At first things ran great, but now I’m to the point of wanting to pull my hair out. It freezes every few minutes for about 30 seconds until it sorts itself out, and then a few minutes later it does it again. It’s an extreme nuisance when trying to do simple things such as email and IM, however it’s even worse when running my extensive graphic editing and web design programs. I would put XP on my laptop but that would mean losing my quick touch buttons, which I’m rather fond of. Overall, I feel the Vista platform was a good idea. I love some of the ‘frills’ such as the quick touch buttons I mentioned earlier, the search bar in every window, and how customizable everything is. However, I feel this idea was poorly executed.

On a side note, I don’t think we should bash microsoft quite so heavily for their poor OS design. While Vista really isn’t the best of operating systems around, they have created plenty of software that works properly and is heavily used all over. I don’t hate microsft, I hate Vista, and that’s a completely different issue. Bashing microsoft for vista would be similar to bashing apple for a few bugs in leopard, even though they have produced tons of items (software and tangible things) that are extremely popular and work well.

I guess to simplify what I’m saying…
Vista sucks at the moment. I think if they could work out all the bugs, as well as a few logistics, it’d be a fantastic platform to run off of. One piece of software doesn’t create my entire opinion of a company’s work however.