windows vista ... is it pants?

[sense4all]

as above

[fo3nix]

Well this thread will be very opinionated, so here's mine:

Yes, it is. Worst Windows ever. Stick to XP.

For a variety of reasons, but really because they decided to stick lots of DRM into it, slowing the system down and causing all other manner of problems in the process.

This is my favourite article explaining why it's not good. It's long, but well worth reading. With references too, unlike some of the other articles panning Vista.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vis ta_cost.html

[rojash]

Yes it's pants. Even ignoring all the bugs (the first service pack is expected to be 1 Gigabyte, and MS state that it will not have any significant enhancements, so that's 1gig of bug-fixes - on top of all the updates that have already been issued), the underlying design philosophy is just appalling.

Imagine a building whose main selling point is that it is light and airy with lots of lots of doors and windows, but the builder has nailed planks of wood over all of them, all marked with notices warning you that if you remove them, burglars can get in: that's Vista...