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21 out of 48 people found this review helpful
0.5 stars
"Not worth upgrading to Vista"
Pros: Feature-packed
Cons: Expensive; DRM; Product Activation & WGA; "Version 1.0" bugs; resource hog
Summary: Requires high-end hardware (lots of RAM, fast CPU, fast video card).
Expensive, $200+. Are you kidding?! Linux is free. And Mac OS X (industrial-strength OS) is only $129.
DRM limits what you can do with your software and media content.
Product Activation and WGA are a pain in the ass. "Fair use rights" should allow me to install Windows on more than one machine at home (as long as I'm the only user).
Wait for Service Pack 1. Vista is at "Version 1.0" which ALWAYS means lots of bugs.
Vista is nothing more than a glorified Service Pack for Win XP. If you have Win XP, just stick with it.
- 8 replies to this review
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Your review is as bad as I've ever read at this fofumn. Get a grip man. Just because your equipment is lacking and your to cheap or to stupid to realize it's past time to upgrade gives you no right to post on something youve never tried. I waited until the first of June, 2007 to do this and I find it a much better OS then any past "Windows Version". Personally, I wouldn't bother with a sub par PC any more, but maybee i'm just lucky I don't have to.
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What type of system did you install Vista on? Did you do any research before buying and installing it on your computer? As for product activation, if you upgraded to XP you had 30 days to activate it as well. This also prevents you from putting XP on other systems as well unless you buy a licenses for the other PC. Also, you can not blame Microsoft for DMR. You can thank the music industry for that. Specifically Metallica, they were the one's that went after Napster when they found that people were file sharing their music.
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I'm sick of morons posting reviews that have never even used the products. They just make up stuff or regurgitate what they've heard and think they are knowledgable. Cnet needs to filter out these people.
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Agree with you 100 per cent. We've been through it all before.Windows 8, Windows 8SE, ME etc. XPSP2 has matured and works well,why 'fix it'? Profit. Vista, VistaSP2 and then the next version that's being developed as we 'speak'. However,if people are happy with Vista that's fine.
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Ok just cause we have the saps that already went out and dished out the 230 for this crap and are stuck with it therefore forcing themselves to like it, doesnt mean you have to bash the negative comments.
Windows vista is garbage bottom line, the new internet explorer sucks, the new media player sucks, frequent pauses and skips, slower than xp, 230 freaking dollars for windows xp over again just a new jumbled around interface, get real guys its all about the money with this operating system and you poor saps already blew your money on this......is that why your really mad???? -
Just leave, bring your outrageous hate somewhere else. You are ruining the system, just like people on wikipedia. Your not contributing back to the internet community responsibly, you should lack the privilege to access it.
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I've had Vista since the first beta and all I had to upgrade on my pc was an extra stick of RAM. And as for it only being a "Service Pack" you obviously haven't used Vista and if that's what you think the same could be said about Windows 98.
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What is wrong with you people. Quit bashing products that you've never even set eyes on. Seriously, you're whats wrong with the world (largely any ways)
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