Why Do Alot Of People Hate Windows Vista?

[XtothaZ 0]

personally, i prefer itthe only thing i don't like is that i sometimes have trouble playing older pc gamesEDIT:sorry, just relized i'm prlly in the wrong forum

Edited February 8, 2008 by XtothaZ (see edit history)

[sonesay 7]

Most people do not like it because it requires so much CPU power and Memory space to run efficiently. On slower computers you will not be able to run windows vista. I think another problem is people find it packed with too many software/features they would not use. I remember when vista came out my mate playing final fantasy xi could not install the game on his vista laptop. I've use windows vista personally for a short time on a friends computer. It looks great but I have not really had the time to explore the features in it. Her computer was new so it did seem to run fine but I doubt it would run smoothly when more programs are installed and hard disk space taken up. I think its a great OS for new people since it is more user friendly then say Linux. Its still hard to compare Vista to Mac OS x as to what is more user friendly, I think Windows is still more user friend just because more software people use like the office suites are being used widely. I do hate Microsoft personally for having poor software thats being exploited. One example was with internet explorer just late last year there was a flaw in its active x with real player that allowed scripts to be run on the host machine and a Trojan loaded later to log passwords. This was used on the FFXI online game community and i think hundreds or maybe more players got their accounts stolen. The exploit was loaded on many trusted final fantasy resource websites that provided players with guides and information regarding the game. It was sad that the add companies displaying banners got hijacked and then the exploit code was loaded from there.My friend lost his account through that, The symptoms he gave me was his computer was running slow and he thinks hes got a virus. I thought it was nothing then and told him to stop visiting porn sites and downloading their stuff. He had a good laugh at him thinking that was the case but it turns out it was internet explorer being hijacked, I should of paid more attention and asked him what browser he was using. If I knew I would of told him to use Firefox but its too late now hes lost his account because of using internet explorer.Thats another reason why I hate windows and its software.

[XtothaZ 0]

Most people do not like it because it requires so much CPU power and Memory space to run efficiently. On slower computers you will not be able to run windows vista. I think another problem is people find it packed with too many software/features they would not use. I remember when vista came out my mate playing final fantasy xi could not install the game on his vista laptop. I've use windows vista personally for a short time on a friends computer. It looks great but I have not really had the time to explore the features in it. Her computer was new so it did seem to run fine but I doubt it would run smoothly when more programs are installed and hard disk space taken up. I think its a great OS for new people since it is more user friendly then say Linux. Its still hard to compare Vista to Mac OS x as to what is more user friendly, I think Windows is still more user friend just because more software people use like the office suites are being used widely.
I do hate Microsoft personally for having poor software thats being exploited. One example was with internet explorer just late last year there was a flaw in its active x with real player that allowed scripts to be run on the host machine and a Trojan loaded later to log passwords. This was used on the FFXI online game community and i think hundreds or maybe more players got their accounts stolen. The exploit was loaded on many trusted final fantasy resource websites that provided players with guides and information regarding the game. It was sad that the add companies displaying banners got hijacked and then the exploit code was loaded from there.

My friend lost his account through that, The symptoms he gave me was his computer was running slow and he thinks hes got a virus. I thought it was nothing then and told him to stop visiting porn sites and downloading their stuff. He had a good laugh at him thinking that was the case but it turns out it was internet explorer being hijacked, I should of paid more attention and asked him what browser he was using. If I knew I would of told him to use Firefox but its too late now hes lost his account because of using internet explorer.

Thats another reason why I hate windows and its software.

yeah, what you said makes perfect sense. Because i started using vista when i bought my new laptop.....thats why i didn't notice it took so much cpu power and memory

and vista does have alot of software, while most of it cool and nice to have ... some of it i don't even need..

[csp4.0 1]

I don't hate windows vista, but I dislike it... Its minimum system requirements are too high for a 'mainstream' operating system.It also has a lot of extremely unnecessary software built inside it which takes up a lot more RAM and CPU usage than it really needs... I also think that Vista's Aero and sidebar takes up too much RAM, heck I would rather have the sidebar have less of a 'crystal' look and use less RAM.

[tricky77puzzle 0]

My computer runs Vista without a hiccup (except when I run certain XP-compatible programs, then it throws up completely), but that's because it's pretty darn good. It gets a 5.2 on the "Vista Experience Index".When I don't use vista, I have Kubuntu 7.10 installed in case something goes wrong with Windows (like a corrupt Chinese filename such as ??????.mp3) and I have to fix it in a Unix-like operating system which won't return errors with bad filenames.Other than that, I don't really have much beef with Vista.

[Hagebyhemdata 0]

First thing said is that Windows Vista are a operating system that requires alot from
a system running it. Windows Vista are more like a eyecandy, and therefore required
more of a system to give you a nice graphic user interface. Like Windows Aero and
the Sidepanel are features that increase your feelings for both your workspace and
playground. Keeping that in mind when you are making a slight comparison between
a system running Windows XP and Windows Vista.

A system running Windows Vista requires at least 1 GB RAM Memory to work properly
(Windows XP requires 256 MB) are what most computer stores are telling me. By
helping and supporting people with their computers, I think 1 GB is too little to making
the system run smoothly. One or two week and the systems loading time begining to
make you both tired and frustrated. My best friend bought a 800 euro HP computer,
with Windows Vista Home basic, with 1 GB RAM memory. One month later he was
upgrading his computer with another 2 GB, but it wasn't an easy month, poor fella,
he was swearing alot at his new bought computer and resisted that a new computer
should last more than a week before running into problems. Instead of going back
to that computer store and claim his money back, which I would done directly, he
accepted the situation. I couldn't myself sell a computer to a customer, that I knew
would give him problem and in the end would brought my customer back for
compensation.

If you like to upgrade your computer from Windows XP to Windows Vista, and your
computer are a couple of years old, you may not get the full visual Vista experience,
simply because that your hardware won't fully run Vista. When we are here with running
issues, there are also problems by running applications and games that are a couple of
years old. Some programs have ofcourse updates whom you can apply to keep up
running your favourite games and programs. Burt unfortunate there are some who not
have updates and won't run in vista, pearls that become abandon by falling off due to
software incompability in Windows Vista.

The next stone to cast on Windows Vista are certainly the Windows Vista User Account
Control (UAC), that have driven me insane a couple of times, and my automatical
response when I see a UAC protected account at my customers, is; "Do you wish me to
inactivate the UAC?". Well the UAC feature is great if there are any spyware attempting
to install anything without your acknowledge, but for most common users have often
good browser behavior, and do not enter websites that looks suspicious.

Next thing I hate in Windows Vista is the lack of drivers. How about upgrading you computer
to a Windows Vista ome premium? By the way, you won't be running your superb soundcard,
because theres no support for your soundcard in Vista. Not interested!

I also think that Vista's Aero and sidebar takes up too much RAM, heck I would rather have the sidebar have less of a 'crystal' look and use less RAM.

Yes, the Aero is occupies alot of your RAM. Did you know that Vista's Aero graphics eat
laptop battery power too. If you're travelling alot with your laptop, and using it while you
travel, you will see that your laptop battery becomes quickly empty. Reconsider this,
there are possibilities to change from Aero to Basic in Vista.

[bishoujo 0]

I hate it because it's incompatible with a lot of hardware that I previously used with Windows XP, like my printer and my MP3 player, which I could originally charge using XP. Unfortunately, i'm stuck with using it right now. I have to use my desktop for other applications.

[anachro 0]

I don't like vista (I'm using it right as I type this). Its very restrictive, and you have no control (you can't even change your default internet browser!), and it asked for alot of questions of things when you just told it to do so. I really think Microsoft should take some hints from Apple, and find a better way of restricting things, without limiting options, because at one point I hate my new laptop so much I wanted to break it, get a new one, sell it BRAND NEW on Ebay, and buy a Mac because of how free and secure they are (it's ridiculously unbelievable how well Mac has it, and yet they are still not the major industry PC makers, its STUPID)it IS true that it uses alot of CPU memory, but for me its what you CAN'T DO with YOUR OWN PERSONAL COMPUTER.buy a mac if your going for anything but gamming. if your rich, buy both, use the Vista for gaming because more games are Windows compatible.

[coolcat50 0]

Vista takes up way too much RAM. I have at least 70 processes going at any one time even if I am away from my computer and nothing is running but Vista. I like its look though, and since I am the only user of my computer, I have as much access as possible. I think it is alright, but it still is worse than XP.

[dre 0]

Vista is a scam, just like DirectX 10. False comparisons between DX 9 and DX 10 and pretty much a requirement that pre-build systems come with Vista have a big effect on the computer-illiterate people. There's no reason why DX10 can't be on XP besides the fact that they'd lose money on both software and the fact that people won't have to upgrade/buy better computers.

[awesomebill61 0]

I don't like vista (I'm using it right as I type this). Its very restrictive, and you have no control (you can't even change your default internet browser!), and it asked for alot of questions of things when you just told it to do so. I really think Microsoft should take some hints from Apple, and find a better way of restricting things, without limiting options, because at one point I hate my new laptop so much I wanted to break it, get a new one, sell it BRAND NEW on Ebay, and buy a Mac because of how free and secure they are (it's ridiculously unbelievable how well Mac has it, and yet they are still not the major industry PC makers, its STUPID)
it IS true that it uses alot of CPU memory, but for me its what you CAN'T DO with YOUR OWN PERSONAL COMPUTER.

buy a mac if your going for anything but gamming. if your rich, buy both, use the Vista for gaming because more games are Windows compatible.

i have vista and i changed my default internet browser to firefox.... no problem

i never notice any problems with vista not being fast either... but my computer has a 5.4 vista experience score so it should do pretty good.

and as for security flaws, windows is attacked far more than any other OS.... mac has what? 5% market share? and linux distros arent even over 1%?
that leaves well over 90% of the population using windows computers.... which means for every 1 person who tries to exploit flaws in a mac theres 100 people trying to exploit flaws in windows.
i'm sure OS X has just as many flaws as vista, theres just nobody who exploits them.

and from a performance standpoint, SP1 supposedly really really improves vista's performance.

[CrashCore 0]

Vista is the plague of all operating systems. Using Vista is equivalent to saying, "I want to make my up-to-date hardware run as slow as possible. Maybe I can even reduce it pre-five-years-ago speeds!" But seriously, as previously mentioned, Vista has a ridiculously high memory and CPU usage. This is why Linux is so great: everything is able to be personalized! If you're like me and always set up your Windows XP machines to use no graphical effects and not use the Luna display theme because it will slow down your PC ever so little, you can find or make a Linux distribution that has a small footprint. Or, you can always continue to use a combination of XP and Linux like I do.

[rs redemption 0]

on some of the computers that I have used, it really slowed me down. couple that with the lack of compatibility with some programs, and it makes it a really tough operating system to get used to. Aside from that however, there are always bugs in a new OS, like XP for instance. It wasn't really a 'preferred' OS until like SP2, and at that point the majority of people started switching over from 98 and (ugh) ME. That stated, I have used my step mom's computer, which has Vista on it, just to surf the web and whatnot, and it really is a nice operating system both in looks and performance, as long as you have the equipment to run it well, and aren't attempting to use anything that is not compatible with it.

[hawkfan45 0]

People Irritate me with their Useless Vista sucks rants. There is nothing wrong with the actual operating system that makes it run slow. If you have under 1.5 gb of ram its going to run regular but not fast. If you have 2+ gb of ram it will run great. Its a highly graphical system. The only people that hate it are computer illiterate people who can't read the box that has minimum or "recommended requirements". If your computer doesn't meet them then don't get it. The only reason to really get it is on a new BUILT for vista computer. Memory is cheap anyway, you can get 4 gb of ram on newegg for around $120 dollars. 4 gb of ram will make vista run fine seeing that you have a good processor and a decent video card. For the video card you need a minimum of 128 mb just for vista. Yes it may hog it, but vista was built for computers with good hardware. To meet the reccomended requirements may not be enough. But the reccomended is not always whats best. Hate the computer not the operating system. Hawk

[dre 0]

There is nothing wrong with the actual operating system that makes it run slow.

Really? Is that so?

If you have 2+ gb of ram it will run great.

Well that's a shame since most games today will take all that ram away and you'll be using your oh-so-fast swap file.

Memory is cheap anyway, you can get 4 gb of ram on newegg for around $120 dollars.

Or not. Well, unless you want crap.

If your computer doesn't meet them then don't get it.

Even though it does I still wont get it.

Yes it may hog it, but vista was built for computers with good hardware.

Please tell me why I would knowingly install a hog onto my computer. What kind of magic is it able to do since it requires so much?

Hate the computer not the operating system.

Or not. You'll be hating your wallet later.
Also, I love how your post says

There is nothing wrong with the actual operating system that makes it run slow.

and then later it says

Yes it may hog it, but vista was built for computers with good hardware.

I just find that hilarious. Oh, and welcome to Xisto. Edited February 11, 2008 by dre (see edit history)