After all the years of Microsoft saying "Vista does work" obviouslly to keep a good morale for all the users, I read an online article the other week, with Microsoft using a spin doctor to say "We are making Windows 7, we'll try to keep it best as ever, but we understand the problems that exist in Vista"
They basically denied for a long time, that it was crap. Now they have finally undertood that Vista has it problems (and they can't be fixed) and maybe they should have woken up to what people were saying about it.
They are apparently dumbing down Windows 7.
Vista was just so bloatware savy (you need this and you need this and that to be running).
As said above, Starry Night and all has to be run in XP compatibilty mode. That's just crazy. An advanced OS should automatically dumb it self down to run it.
In the tone of Dr. Phil "What were you thinkin'".
I have Vista on a near brand new laptop. The wife hates it and so do I (the OS).
And it's very slow, so much bloatware on it, it's crazy.
We have discussed on wiping it, for an XP install, but haven't got that far yet to do it.
Any salesman that sells you a laptop saying that Vista is better than sliced bread, I think he needs a new job.
As Microsoft have relented now and said "we're sorry, we told a big white lie".