Thread: Windows vista Stinks?

You know, its not actually that vista uses much memory by its necessary processes, its all that DRM and all that monitoring thats going on all the time. I just read a couple of things about vista that im sure you (vista users will find interesting) and that i'll hopefully disencourage people to downgrade from XP to Vista (yes, DOWNGRADE ).

Here are some stuff i came across with

Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system is a giant step backward for your freedoms.

Usually, new software enables you to do more with your computer. Vista, though, is designed to restrict what you can do.

Vista enforces new forms of “Digital Rights Management (DRM)”. DRM is more accurately called Digital Restrictions Management, because it is a technology that Big Media and computer companies try to impose on us all, in order to have control over how our computers are used.

Technology security expert Bruce Schneier explains it most concisely:

Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment industry—And you don't get to refuse them.

DRM gives power to Microsoft and Big Media.

* They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer
* They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment
* They force you to install new programs even when you don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege)
* They restrict your access to certain programs and even to your own data files

DRM is enforced by technological barriers. You try to do something, and your computer tells you that you can't. To make this effective, your computer has to be constantly monitoring what you are doing. This constant monitoring uses computing power and memory, and is a large part of the reason why Microsoft is telling you that you have to buy new and more powerful hardware in order to run Vista. They want you to buy new hardware not because you need it, but because your computer needs it in order to be more effective at restricting what you do.

Microsoft and other computer companies sometimes refer to these restrictions as “Trusted Computing.” Given that they are designed to make it so that your computer stops trusting you and starts trusting Microsoft, these restrictions are more appropriately called “Treacherous Computing”.

Microsoft put some dumb list on their site, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...g_id=10288VHb1

And this is really what the industry is thinking about Vista, should go ahead and read, pretty interesting
Anything but Speechless: 100 Things People Are Really Saying About Windows Vista | MICROSPLOT

Selo, your dead wrong. All us vista users should upgrade to windows 3.1

Go ahead, just get rid of the vista . Point is, even the experts say it: VISTA = FAIL.

Yep, vista users should upgrade to XP

I have vista and have no problems with it, I have a rather powerful computer and many games and applications and not one of them has had any compatibility issues. I think vista is a good security upgrade and a nicer theme, thats all it is to me. I did have XP for a long time and it had a lot of flaws in security. I think vista just needs a bit more time and a few more patches.