Is Windows Vista as bad as it's said to be?

I run Windows 7 and XP personally. I have no problems with XP, it can browse the internet just like any other set up and does what it does well. I have no personal experiance with Vista but I don't really think it can be THAT bad espiecally now depending on what you have to do with it. I still love windows XP so im biased. Im not cry about the fact it wont play some new triple A game of tomorrow. Excel works, word, internet, email, and the programs I want on it work, etc. Only thing is newer software will outrun in, things like browser updates and flash player type things can be tricky to deal with. You have to understand that and accept it before going in. If you acknowledge this and proceed with caution i would think you will be alright. Although again I have no personal experience with the OS.

Nothing wrong with vista.
It is also unsupported, but is likely to be more secure than XP.

Might be a good time to learn Linux.

There are two sides to this story: Actual Vista Issues, and the circumstances of its release.



---1) The Vista RTM was buggy, but the service packs did resolve most of the bugs. The current version is stable.

---2) Most of the "driver issues" were simply the fact that Microsoft made major changes to the driver model that broke compatibility with XP/2000 drivers. Windows 7, 8, and 10, continue to have this issue, but even if a windows 10 driver isn't available, 90 percent of the time, the 7 or 8 works because the basic driver model has not changed a whole lot since Vista. So, Vista was hurt here by circumstances beyond its control. Windows 7 would have had the same problem, if it had been released before Vista.

----3) Performance issues were part Vista's fault, and part circumstance. Vista really is the slowest version of windows of all time. However, at the time of is release, the average processor was less than half as fast as the processors during the release of Windows 7. Average memory also tripled during that time. If Vista had launched with Phenom X4 and Core 2 quad machines with 3gb of ram on the entry level machines, instead of Pentium D's and Athlon X2's with 1gb of ram, the perception of Vista would likely have been a good deal better than it was.

----4) Look and feel was another thing that hurt Vista. It looked terrible, just like windows 10 does. The dark, poorly thought out, default theme, turned a lot of users off. People don't want to be depressed looking at their PC. Yes, you could change it, but many people didn't want to be bothered or just didn't know how.

----5) It was released on the heals of Windows XP, the greatest Microsoft OS of all time, while it was in its prime. XP was still receiving full support and full feature and security upgrades. And it had none of the shortcomings I just listed for Vista.



When you consider the totality of the circumstances, along with Vista's shortcomings, its not a surprise that it took a beating in the eyes of public opinion. But in spite of all those issues, it did mature into a respectable operating system.