Why did people hate Vista?

[CakesCakesCakes]

I'm 18, so I remember when Vista launched, and I remember everyone hating it.  I wasn't old enough to know why though.  Every time I had used it it seemed just like XP but looked nicer and had some cool features (like aero snap).  Why was it seemingly universally hated?

[wyattzx]

• It didn't perform very well.
• It was very buggy.
• It didn't act nicely to software from Windows XP. (Depending on the software.)
• It tried to do a lot, but ended up doing very little.
• Its design wasn't very appealing. Although Aero was neat, it was like it tried to morph out of Windows XP, but then was cut short. (Subjective.)
• It wasn't intuitive. 
• Often-times you'd get prompted by the User Account Control (UAC) when doing even mundane things. Like opening up Disk Defragmenter. 

The list goes on.

[Cyrus49]

Buggy, slow, resource-hogging, crashing. I'm 15 currently and had a vista laptop for almost half my life. It's terrible.

[carguy86]

to wrap it nicely it was half of windows 7. (with a billion bugs an crappy features)

[CakesCakesCakes]

Buggy, slow, resource-hogging, crashing. I'm 15 currently and had a vista laptop for almost half my life. It's terrible.

I feel like those complaints could be lodged against Windows in general though.

[terrytek]

I never hated it. In fact, i loved it so much. I think it was the best OS out there

[CakesCakesCakes]

I never hated it. In fact, i loved it so much. I think it was the best OS out there

What did you like about it?

[Cyrus49]

I feel like those complaints could be lodged against Windows in general though.

Xp or 7 never had those problems [well mabye a little bit]. Vista was 3x worse than any other microsoft os.

[Guest]

Well it wasn't that bad but somebody wrote once on this forum why people hated it, 1 or 2 years ago.

 

The computers of that time were made for XP, hardware wise.

 

Vista was just too taxing sometimes. Plus driver problems.

[Briggsy]

If you talk to microsoft fanboy's, it was the fault of hardware companies for not providing proper driver support, even though Longhorn Beta was in circulation for years before it launched as Vista. Aside from that, Vista was incredibly bloated. When they updated the OS from 6.0 (Vista) to 6.1 (Windows 7), they cut out a lot of the bloat and streamlined the entire Backend of Windows. Microsoft also took on the task of making generic drivers to cover most - if not all - common hardware, so that by the time Windows 7 rolled out, Microsoft were not reliant on external driver support. 

[Darkkmello]

I installed Vista on a 4 year old laptop because a friend wanted it.

Opening IE took around 1 minute

Installed Win7

Opening IE took around 5 seconds.

 

wtf..

[terrytek]

Xp or 7 never had those problems [well mabye a little bit]. Vista was 3x worse than any other microsoft os.

No it wasn't. XP was the worst.

 

What did you like about it?

Speed, the looks, the gadgets, and how it overall gamed.

[Mightyinvader]

XP beat vista in everyway....

[STRMfrmXMN]

Well the only PC I ever had with Vista had a Core 2 Quad and a 7200RPM Caviar Blue so it was pretty snappy on Vista and only took around 30 seconds to boot. No problems from me. However, no Pentium 4 should ever be expected to suffocate through Vista

[Tim Drake]

I never hated it. In fact, i loved it so much. I think it was the best OS out there

 

It had more problems than good features OP

[ved]

My dad had a Vista laptop and he downgraded it to XP. He's wasn't too tech savvy back then and he was desperate enough to do it.

[cesrai]

Well the only PC I ever had with Vista had a Core 2 Quad and a 7200RPM Caviar Blue so it was pretty snappy on Vista and only took around 30 seconds to boot. No problems from me. However, no Pentium 4 should ever be expected to suffocate through Vista

Booting time isn't a great metric and it also depends on MB and other things.

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I remember using it and it was like resource intensive, had some bugs, UAC was good but it got up every fucking time on every fucking thing.

[terrytek]

XP beat vista in everyway....

how can you possibly say that. xp was so unoptimized. it took me 15 minutes to open chrome on my laptop on xp, and another 15 to load a webpage.

 

 

It had more problems than good features OP

beware, i'm probably the hardest vista fanboy out there

[rafazafar]

At that time, Acer + Vista = BSOD Galore...

As a pc technician at that time, Vista gave me hell load of issue that at times i cant even begin to fathom how/what causes it.
 

[SansVarnic]

Vista is the lesser evil incarnation of ME.

Only difference was Vista didn't die every 5 min or needed reinstalled every 3 months.

Vista was slightly (slightly) more stable. 

[Ryoku]

I'm 18, so I remember when Vista launched, and I remember everyone hating it.  I wasn't old enough to know why though.  Every time I had used it it seemed just like XP but looked nicer and had some cool features (like aero snap).  Why was it seemingly universally hated?

 

It was apparently pretty bad off of launch, none of the drivers from xp worked for it and everyone was slow releasing their drivers for it, buggy ect ect.  After a year or so once the drivers and patches came out it wasn't to bad, I used it on a Asus laptop that I had for like 5-6 years with no problems.

[STRMfrmXMN]

Booting time isn't a great metric and it also depends on MB and other things.

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I remember using it and it was like resource intensive, had some bugs, UAC was good but it got up every fucking time on every fucking thing.

Should point out it was a slow booting BIOS, like 20 seconds just for it alone, so it wasn't exactly a slow boot time. That said, I really never did have issue with Vista.

[MatthewEnderle]

Xp or 7 never had those problems [well mabye a little bit]. Vista was 3x worse than any other microsoft os.

XP was Terrible when it first came out. Read up on that.

[cesrai]

Should point out it was a slow booting BIOS, like 20 seconds just for it alone, so it wasn't exactly a slow boot time. That said, I really never did have issue with Vista.

My lenovo G580 boots in 2 seconds not more or less into windows and jayztwocents X99 takes like 15-30 seconds depending on if it's a cold boot of not, I think the biggest factor is the MB then hard drive.

[terrytek]

Seriously, i feel like i'm the only one who used Vista and had no issues whatsoever. I mean my gateway computer of 9 years still has vista and with no issues. i mean i loved it so much i downgraded my laptop preloaded with 7 down to vista.