Posts from Windows Vista. What are your thoughts on it? Auto-translated

Well, there were other operating systems between Windows 98 and XP, and not just one.

They changed quite quickly, but with Vista, it's still unclear how it will turn out.
I might be wrong, but the "System Restore" function was only introduced in XP.

Simply put, Windows XP became a pretty good operating system, perhaps the first one that satisfied the needs of many users, and it's not that easy to come up with something radically new. However, Microsoft's strategy is already known. Vista is not a revolutionary new OS; it doesn't introduce any fundamental changes. It's more of an "intermediate" system, if you will. It was created to bridge the gap between XP and a truly new and revolutionary system – Windows Vienna. This is the one that should be a real breakthrough, but little is known about it, and it's impossible to judge it objectively at this time. Vienna is planned for release in 2009-2010.

In my opinion, Vista is quite acceptable, especially if you don't use licensed software :D Now, almost every program runs perfectly on Vista, and the first service pack has been released... It's quite "usable" and contains some nice features, such as its appearance and DirectX 10.

Voted, as I thought.
Honestly, I'm going to... I'm downloading it right now... it's Window Seven-vienna. (A guy from the link in Moscow is downloading it - I'll get it in 5 days).
I'll see what this beast is like.
And what about "This is awesome! I love Vista!"? Microsoft lost millions of dollars on it! Poor thing, it didn't live up to our expectations.
For now, XP still rules.

It seems to me that Vista has an overly complicated security system – all these endless permissions, notifications, and blocks…

It seems to me that Vista has an overly absurd security system – all these endless permissions, notifications, and blocks....

They are optional.

Some of them cannot be disabled; for example, if you need to receive a file via ICQ, you need to enable ICQ (or QIP, it doesn't really matter) with administrator privileges, even if you are logging in with an administrator account.

In my opinion, the good old XP is still great. I agree that Vista might become the number one product in the future, but in my opinion, it still has many flaws and requires a lot of computer resources. I tried to connect my Motorola L7 phone to my computer, but it didn't work. Vista didn't recognize either the driver or the phone, only the flash drive. Knowledgeable people said that Vista will be updated in a couple of months to support phones.

Probably it was a pirated version of Vista, right? :)

Do you have licensed software, heretic?:D

I didn't like Vista... I barely tolerate XP, and Vista completely shocked me. I hope that by the time programs are written exclusively for Vista, I will have already switched to Linux:)
Actually, that time has already come... DX 10 is only for Vista.
Although my friends like it.

Probably it was a pirated Vista, right?:)

No, it wasn't. Vista was a licensed copy. We bought the disc ourselves, and they installed it in front of us. It's just a flaw in the system. There are more and more updates. They say that SP1 for Vista has already been released. And our programmer and hacker brothers are finishing and improving everything else:) And soon it will become as commonplace as the old, good (although also somewhat flawed) XP:)

What can I say about this thing? Hmm, I've been using it for almost a year, and it's aged two years. No, I need to think of a less offensive way to describe it than the word "crap"...

Well, it's a mixed bag. Vista was a licensed copy. We bought the disc ourselves, and they installed it right in front of us. It's just that the system had some flaws. There are more and more updates. They say that SP1 for Vista has already been released. And our programmer and hacker brothers are finishing and improving everything else:) And soon it will become as commonplace as the old, good (although also somewhat flawed) XP:)

I don't know, I had it installed 2 years ago, when only critical updates were released, and everything was fine... and SP1 was released more than six months ago.

Will Vista become commonplace?))) Never! :) It's not even an operating system, it's who knows what. None of my friends in my study group (I'm studying to be a programmer) have it, and they won't. It's just awful.))) How can anyone work on that?

As far as I know, Windows XP was also buggy and far from a perfect operating system until the release of SP2. And even its relatively modest system requirements, compared to which Vista's requirements seem simply terrible, make people choose the older XP (although, I don't deny that in some cases this can be a decisive and quite objective factor). It will be interesting to see what happens when Windows 7 is released, but if we have to wait a long time, I think Vista has a good chance of becoming the most popular OS on home PCs.