02-13-2008, 12:05 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,202
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I certainly don't fall into the "hate Vista" camp. I'm running Vista Ultimate on couple of my machines and XP Media Center or Pro on a couple more. My original plan was to upgrade all of my PC's to Vista -- I still have 3 unused licenses sitting here. After getting Vista and using it though, I can't find any compelling reasons to move those machines from XP. Unless you have new equipment with tons of memory it's just plain slower. The file copy operations as you mention are a joke. I have found awful Wireless network performance-often dropping the connection in the middle of those slow file copies. I sure that's a driver problem, but yet again, not one I experience with XP.
There just isn't enough benefit provided by Vista to overcome the lousy driver support and poor overall performance. You indicate there is no one thing that makes it better. In all honesty, I struggle to find any little thing that makes it better, sure it looks better, but that really isn't any big deal in my day-to-day computer usage. I've disabled UAC, so don't receive benefit from that. I have been a long time user of Copernic Desktop Search and find it superior to Vista's built in search feature, so I don't use that. The Mail and calendar are improved, but of course won't sync with Microsoft's own Mobile devices, so I still use Outlook 2003 for those functions.
In MS's effort to secure the OS and fight piracy on behalf of Hollywood they've added too much bloat and not provided enough end-user benefit. Seriously, why should we have to put up with poorer performance and not really see any end benefit. I have two nearly identical laptops, one running XP and one running Vista. They are both stable, both run pretty well, but the XP machine is faster at just about everything. I use the Vista Machine the same way I use the XP machine, and at the end the day, I'm always left thinking, so how did Vista make my computing experience better? I usually struggle to find an answer, and that is why I don't see any reason to deal with the hassle and headache of upgrading the rest of my machines to Vista at this point in time.
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