OMG thank you so much Mak. I've been saying this for months and no one listens. They listen to this trash talk on blogs and through their friends, and NONE of them have first-hand experience with Vista. "It is garbage, it doesn't work." Do me a favor, next time someone says that ask why, 99.9% of the time they won't have an answer, it is just something someone else said, and the .1% of the time they say it doesn't support hardware or software... UMM GUESS WHAT, that is the hardware and software problem for not upgrading.
You think Microsoft is responsible for that? Please do your research. Software/hardware manufacterers make products that are compatable with certain OS's, there are costs involved here. When there is a new upgrade most of the hardware and software manf. won't upgrade until a certain percentage of their clients switch. They are being cheap, and you should be blaming them, not Microsoft. do you think microsoft creates an OS that supports every possible hardware (ones that haven't even come out yet)? No they create the platform and it is up to the manf. to create something that works with it.
I agree, that article is bogus, and a lot of articles out there are. They are scared of change, and anyone who says 'what does it offer' hasn't done their research. There are about a half dozen programs and features in Vista that people are PAYING to use through other 3rd party software tools. Does anyone remember the transitions from 2000 to XP? Everyone said the same thing, its just a bubbly 2000. Yet everyone switched. Now you have an OS that actually has a ton more functionality you are going to complain more? I just don't get it.
I'm with Mak here, and i've run Vista on a computer that had XP, and XP software and i haven't had ANY problems. The only thing that wasn't compatible was just a suggestion, because Vista already has software that did that task.
"But it prompts me all the time" - turn that feature off dillweed. It is a security feature that you would LOVE TO HAVE on your grandfathers machine when he's downloading stuff that he's unaware of.
I agree, there is no sense in wasting the space trying to convince people this is the next step (and a better one). And in 3 years everyone will be happy w/ Vista and will be complaining about the next upgrade.