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Anyone support Vista in a workplace environment?

I'm going to rant here a bit but I've about had it with Vista. I fucking hate it. It may work fine for the casual joe but for business purposes, its bullshit. I spend so much of my time fixing broke shit on Vista for the end user and in most cases, end up moving people back to XP because they are so frustrated with Vista and its never ending bullshit and can't get their work done. I'm a sysadmin at a company that needs to be on the cutting edge so we rolled out Vista back in March of this year. I hate being early adopters of anything, especially a freakin OS. Vista is slow, annoying, trys too hard to fix things and in doing so, breaks things, and is simply not fit for business use IMO. Not anytime soon. Maybe SP1 will fix some things who knows but until then I'll be rolling as many people back to XP as possible to make my life easier.

So who out there works at a company where Vista is the main OS? What has been your experience?

I have yet to deal with it as I jumped from XP Pro to OSX when a started law school a few months back...and from what I've been hearing...I made a good choice. (I still enjoy having my old XP Dell lappy around though, don't get me wrong).

even for gaming it was pure sh1t. my FPS is slower on vista and i have a 8800gts 320mb.

some of the new stuff is pretty good, like when i plug my laptop to a Tv or projector, battery management on laptop. but its way to bloated, you'll be amazed at how many hidden directory it has.

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Originally posted by oran9e even for gaming it was pure sh1t. my FPS is slower on vista and i have a 8800gts 320mb. some of the new stuff is pretty good, like when i plug my laptop to a Tv or projector, battery management on laptop. but its way to bloated, you'll be amazed at how many hidden directory it has.

I have an 8800 GTX Ultra and it is buggy as hell and slow. Blue Screens A Lot. It seems to stop, then it starts again. I really want to install XP but I'll have to wait till SP1 comes out. Have the Beta, but doesn't seem to improve it much.

I work for an IT company and it's amazing how many people buy a machine with Vista on it, only to come in to our store and get us to format with XP. New studies show that even with basic operations Vista takes twice the amount of time to process as XP does. This was both before and after Vistas service pack 1 release.

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Originally posted by Blahzaay I work for an IT company and it's amazing how many people buy a machine with Vista on it, only to come in to our store and get us to format with XP. New studies show that even with basic operations Vista takes twice the amount of time to process as XP does. This was both before and after Vistas service pack 1 release.

Totally belive it. Have a friend that runs a computer store and tells me the same kind of thing. Most of the work he does it moving people back to XP because most new computers they buy have Vista on there and they hate it. Vista is pure anal sewage. Looks like everyone else here is in agreement as well.

I really think that these companies, esp Microsoft, do not have good quality control....or beta testers.

I find Vista pretty, and from what I have read (might be wrong) you need it for DX10. Other than that, meh. I prefer Ubuntu for everything other than gaming, and XP runs faster so gaming on it right now is better.

In a workplace setting Vista looks like a more professional, polished OS, but work is all about performance. XP wins there.

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Originally posted by Magnus pure anal sewage

Haha... couldn't have put it better myself :-)

I recently bought a new laptop, with Vista on it.

Now, for the very first time ever, I legitimately own a copy of Windows. Windows XP, that is. Vista was a piece of crap, and wouldn't work with any of my shit. Purchased and installed XP the very next day.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk I recently bought a new laptop, with Vista on it. Now, for the very first time ever, I legitimately own a copy of Windows. Windows XP, that is. Vista was a piece of crap, and wouldn't work with any of my shit. Purchased and installed XP the very next day.

Well XP wasn't perfect when it started, it wasn't until SP2 that it became more stable. Here's hoping that SP1 will make Vista a little more stable and hardware a little more compatible than it currently is.

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Originally posted by Spirit5 Well XP wasn't perfect when it started, it wasn't until SP2 that it became more stable. Here's hoping that SP1 will make Vista a little more stable and hardware a little more compatible than it currently is.

Tests show that nothing changed performance wise with the SP1 release. STILL half as productive as XP.

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Originally posted by Blahzaay Tests show that nothing changed performance wise with the SP1 release. STILL half as productive as XP.

Wow how sad. What a further garbage product child of a suckpump. Maybe SP2 years from now will do the trick...

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Originally posted by Magnus Wow how sad. What a further garbage product child of a suckpump. Maybe SP2 years from now will do the trick...

Hopefully they can get SP2 by next year....I'm stuck with Vista and most of us will be if you want to play new games in the forseeable future, unless they can get DX10 running on XP...but word is that DX10.1 will replace it cause DX10 bogs your system (why games run so slow, it consumes much more video and system RAM). I have the Beta of SP1 and to me..it seems to have minimized some of the BSOD I've been experiencing.

I'm running the SP3 Release Candidate for XP at the mo

Vista is shit.

Definitely XP.

Msoft will force the world to go with Vista at some point. Hopefully all the issues are fixed by then.

Hell no, I wouldn't permit that. I wouldn't touch that bloatware with a ten foot pole.

I had planned on being fully on linux or OSX by now, but sadly I run vista...

I work for a financial group, and we're beta-testing our applications on vista. Our software runs small and simple programs, and we literally have had about the safe software on it since windows 2000, and we've never had problems. We only upgrade because MS will not support the operating systems, which puts us out of compliance.

But really, if we hired a team of linux developers that could build a small computer-specific kernal designed just to run these small applications, we'd save billions in licensing agreements...

I guess I will take the contrary side here.

My work computer is Vista Business and I have no issues with it nor have I run into any problems. Integration, work flow, time management, backup etc all seam just as good as XP or better. Granted my new computer is a beast of a system (rated at 5.9 on vista's scale). Do other workplaces use the Business version or another?

At home I use XP SP3 - but that is because I have only a 2.8 P4 that is almost 4 years old. I bet that 60% of the people here that use vista just dont have a computer that was meant for it. That OS takes a lot to run... just like any modern day piece of software.

Here I have I vista on my gaming rig and all. But on old Dell Dimension still got XP SP2 and that in DJ room along with burnt out Macbook.

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