windows is good because most applications work with windows

windows is compatible

but hardly anything works with vista, so whats the point in it?

Hey charlie, ever thought of taking an English class? Come on man! we can hardly understand what the hell you are saying!!!

Ha ha, you’re stuck. Without Microsoft PCs are just empty boxes. Linux is the "not ready for prime time" OS. MS killed off all the possible competition for those empty shells long ago. Digital Research’s DR DOS was better than MS’s but they muscled them out of the picture. The same thing happened with IBM’s OS/2 , another superior product that was manipulated out of business by Microsoft.

I have run a vista for buying a new laptop,I think it ’s in a lot of ways disapointing,I just think that microsoft have dominated this erana for too long to bring any fresh freeze ,effectively I ’ve got tired of MS brands , Yes ms is greate ,gates is greate ,I admire them so much, but finally a much comercialized entity can not aways get us too much surprize,here is a start , let’s go to linux,let’s go to firefox,let’s have some fun new experience with these uptaking guys!

@John R.

Computers are NOT just filing cabinets!!!

No more MS OS changes here the next one will be Linux.

We have 5 computers, 1 runs 98, three run XP and one has Linux, it is the newest one.
For now 2 of the XP machines do the bulk of the work, the third is a backup.
In the future we will NEVER go to Vista, and we are getting tired of Microsoft all together.
When XP is no longer available we will change entirely to Linux based computers. Already the one NEW ONE, is used from time to time and it works great!
I think Bill Gates, brilliant as he is has lost touch with real people and the real purpose of the computer, it is after all just a file cabinet.
XP is a fairly good system if you do not let it update to much and sometime you have to kick it back a few months. The SP1 machine has not been updated in years and it never has any trouble, nor does the 98 machine.
I just thought I would say, we will NEVER go to VISTA and at some point we will stop climbing in and out of windows all together and start using a DOOR, Linux seems to be that door of the future.
By the way, this letter is being written on FIREFOX, as it too works better and is less intrusive and problematic.
I like Bill, this is not a hate letter to MS executives but you guys are out of touch with real people in oh so many ways. The world is not flat and computers are after all just file cabinets with TVs sure they can do a lot of things but as they say in the army KISS.
Linux seems to understand that.
No Vista here ever.

Vista is great. I use it. I love it. But I can’t use it on some of my systems, because....
1)its incompatable with many of the peripherals I use every day.
2)its hardware requirement make it only available to those who upgrade all of their computers every few years, which very few people do.

Microsoft claims that tens of thousands of peripherals have been verified to work with Vista. They forgot that there are hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions of different peripherals that people attach to their computers and everyone would like them to keep working.

They just didnt think it out very well and most of their sales are with new systems. They’re getting almost no money from people who are happy with XP on their current systems.

Aero skin is available for XP and I play new Halo on XP :) as well.
Torrent sites are offering Vista for free -but I "don’t even want it for free".
That is a sad indictment.
If microsoft wants to drive a new operating system for mass consumption- they are going to have to come up with some killer apps that actually require the upgrade and a few games isn’t going to do it- particularly if we can get the games etc to run on XP anyway after short delay.
Honestly i don’t see any must have killer apps coming out anytime soon that require Vista so- I agree its dead in the water.
You would think after earlier flops that Microsoft would reverse engineer the flops- see that killer apps and an environment need necessarily be present and then actually deliver a product that is head and shoulders better than the previous operating system. Vista meets none of these criterion and if I can figure out that simple yet- critical essence of a business model with no college degrees at all- it begs the question- what the heck are these high powered executives actually doing for the millions they are paid? I’m a janitor- but I bet any young new hire could run the company better than the Execs- go figure.

I bet if you go into any employee of Microsoft’s home they have VISTA doorstops on every door. Bad Joke but true.

The majority of new PCs will still ship with Vista. I think it’s here to stay.

But who cares? My life is about more important things. A computer is just a tool.

ME, that was my first operation system... never again... (sorry for the dupe)