if i had a choice i would downgrade from Vista to XP, but my laptop provider doesn’t offer drivers for XP.
imho, vista is a piece of crap. its such bad software that not even two years into its sales, MS has given up hope on it by pushing its Windows 7 platform already.
some of the reasons behind my dislike:
– vista consumes computer resources like there is no tomorrow. while my current laptop is twice, if not three times, as powerful as my last laptop which ran on XP, the current laptop is actually slower in its startup and operations.
– windows updates crash my computer. every time my computer gets updated through windows update feature, something breaks down. mostly its the video card driver that needs to be reinstalled. things like this never happened in XP.
– some software wouldn’t work on vista. this is mostly resolved now.
– the user access control feature on vista should be turned off. whoever came up with that feature didn’t think the functionality through, making it was of time and resources.
thus, in conclusion i can say that windows vista is NOT nice. i’ll take XP anytime!