Windows Vista Is Worse Than Windows 98 - a Rank Disaster!

[DownTown22]

Interesting little article:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-Is-Worse-than-Windows-98-a-Rank-Disaster-66094.shtml

[vexorian]

imho windows ME was the worst, although I still remember windows 98 easy to run BSOD... consconsfun

[Midwest-Linux]

Vista is great!

It makes people looking for alternatives to it and help brings more people to linux!

[Gordy]

Vista is great!

It makes people looking for alternatives to it and help brings more people to linux!

Are you sick? Vista is a virus just waiting to attack you!

[wolfen69]

IMO windows ME and vista are both horrible.

[karellen]

at least 98 and me were much more cheaper...

[Hallvor]

Win 98 + SP2 was not that bad. Windows ME was a mess, though.

[Kowalski_GT-R]

Are you sick? Vista is a virus just waiting to attack you!

...maybe you didn't catch the irony in what Midwest was (politely) saying, did you?

Anyway, this is good news: fuels Open Source growth, hardware support, etc. etc.
and also confirms I have wisely chosen my next OS after WinXP :)

[K.Mandla]

Moved to Windows Discussions.

[hessiess]

funnaly, 98 is the only m$ os witch i have never had any problems with:confused:

[lisati]

98SE was what came on my first Windows machine..... wasn't too bad for learning windows, and the hardware was heaps better than the machine I used before. After using XP home & Ubuntu on better hardware the older machine seems so SLOW!

[Midwest-Linux]

...maybe you didn't catch the irony in what Midwest was (politely) saying, did you?

Anyway, this is good news: fuels Open Source growth, hardware support, etc. etc.
and also confirms I have wisely chosen my next OS after WinXP :)

Correct, that was the point I was TRYING to make. That Vista (about how bad it is) ended up having the effect of having people looking for alternative operating systems like linux. Thats what got me started on Linux, it was Vista...I wanted Windows XP Home and the stores didn't have any. I found Linux instead.

I myself have been using Freespire 2.0 and Linux Mint Cassandra quite a lot despite a Windows XP fan for a long time. Freespire 2.0 seems to be the fastest to install and video and audio works the first time its used. Then again, some will critisize Freespire for it being a Linspire freebie and thats supposedly bad cause Linspire is in bed with Microsoft.

I personally think Vista and the anti trust and the EU ruling thing and the disappointing sales of Zune will hurt Microsoft more than anything in any time. I am not Anti-Microsoft, Windows XP Home is their best product ever for the money. But their best days are behind them. Linux' time has come and the time is now. Red Hat put Linux on the Map, Ubuntu literally took the world by storm.

[angryfirelord]

Windows 98 wasn't that bad actually. I managed to cram it onto a Pentium 90MHZ with 16MB RAM & it never once crashed. Windows 2000 put some much needed stability back into Windows & it too didn't require much hardware resources.

Then, XP came out. It was ok, but I still though 2000 had the edge and the product activation sucks, but I lived with XP.

Finally, Vista came out. Vista is the reason why I loathe Windows 100%. It does absolutely nothing good for me and just eats my CPU cycles for no reason. Good job Microsoft, you're the failure of your own.....failure. :)

[buzzmandt]

In my opinion win xp was the best MS OS to hit the market, win 2000 was 2nd and win98 se third, ME was a joke OS.....I used vista for about 11 days and it was just to darn slow, came preinstalled in a laptop that just couldn't handle it. I now have ubuntu on that laptop and it works like a sugar coated dream.

Win xp, many will agree (some will not) was the best, and it will be hard for them to live up to that standard. When you're at the top of the world there is only one direction you can go. XP was the start of some of MS's BS with the activation PITA process but most of us lived with it or had a version that didn't need it (but we won't talk about that:) )

Vista goes to far with MS being in control of your computer, when it works. As has been said on here before, Win XP will be my last MS OS. I'm very happy in the linux world at this point.

[vexorian]

I myself have been using Freespire 2.0 and Linux Mint Cassandra quite a lot despite a Windows XP fan for a long time. Freespire 2.0 seems to be the fastest to install and video and audio works the first time its used. Then again, some will critisize Freespire for it being a Linspire freebie and thats supposedly bad cause Linspire is in bed with Microsoft.

Me, for example.

Do the actual developers of the product a favor (Linspire is just a repackaged ubuntu with some extra codecs and a propietary theme and software that are totally unnecesary ) and stick to Kassandra, Kassandra is a great iniciative and if you like it , needs and deserves support a lot more than linspire, a dying company now that MS bought it and the actual leadership ran away from it.

[Lord Illidan]

My friend has installed Vista, and he likes it a lot...

[angryfirelord]

My friend has installed Vista, and he likes it a lot...
Wait until he has to configure his wireless card, unzip a file, or install something. He won't like it much after that. :twisted:

[Imsati]

my only experience with Win98 was with the SE version. It actually served it's purpose well IMHO, and part of me wishes i still had my old recovery CD just for giggles. I have used Vista exactly three times, and have zero desire to attempt a fourth.

[justin whitaker]

I haven't bought Vista....I did participate in the Betas, and I liked what I saw: slick new interface, a nag system to keep people from blowing themselves up, and a bunch of UI and system improvements across the board.

Now, it might be that Vista is not as successful a launch as XP, but there really is no compelling reason to upgrade right now. It certainly does not rank up there with ME in the "what the hell were you thinking" sweepstakes.