News General resistance to Windows Vista

[Omhra]

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/default.mspx

and more specifically

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/wddm_timeout.mspx

Ms can't fix the driver, no joke obvious.
And updating drivers is no help...
or using any other driver... or tuning ram or nothing.

Nevertheless!
I think that if you are going to release an OS which its going to be sortta "forced" on the consumer it should be backwards compatible at the very least... Nvidia is also turning a blind eye to this issue... BUT on the event log and on the "help with this issue "website" that is returned when this occurs it states that Vista caused the error and that they are working on it...
Don't act as if vista didn't have serious compatibility issues...

 

[BHawthorne]

Vista removed features I used and added a bunch I don't. I reverted back to XP 64-bit recently after a year of dealing with Vista. My only issue with XP 64-bit is gone. iTunes now works in it. I'm glad to get rid of Vista off my machine.

Microsoft has got to be seriously idiotic with thier Mojave campaign. They're touting on making fools of thier userbase.

 

[Brad]

What really put the death spike in Vista was when GE came out and said they weren't upgrading. When one of the largest corporations in the world says "no" to a O/S, you know it is dead.... "Mojave campaign" or not.

 

[Hielor]

There were a lot of changes made for Vista that caused huge incompatibilities at release because hardware manufacturers and software companies didn't have enough time to update their drivers/software for Vista. Plus, a lot of legacy software was made obsolete and unusable with UAC turned on, since a program's Program Files directory was always considered as its directory to do whatever it wanted with.

There were a lot of boneheaded changes in Vista which weren't very well thought out, but Win7 won't have any more of them--drivers that worked in Vista will work in Win7, etc. Microsoft learned their lesson about major sweeping changes with Vista: even though users say "oh, we want major changes and all these new things, we don't just want a rebadged version of the same old thing" they don't actually mean it and aren't willing to put up with the effort it takes to get everything working on a new OS.

 

[Omhra]

" Microsoft learned their lesson about major sweeping changes with Vista"
AND COLLECTED MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS FROM IT. While some lost valuable "up-time" and therefore revenue.

 

[Kurt M. Weber]

I guess I don't see what's supposed to be so bad about Vista.

I've been using it for nearly a year and never had a problem with it.