Posted 09/25/2008 at 05:05:29pm

I know it is, because, for months, I believed the bad hype, and wouldnt' go near it. But then, I got a copy of Ultimate at work, and was allowed to also install it at home. (Keep in mind, I am the guy everyone comes to, to fix their computers, and "make stuff work"). I admit, it took quite a bit of effort to make Vista even install (it didn't like the way my HD was partitioned). I also had to fight furiously with it to make it work with my legacy XP apps, the ones that did not have Vista versions, yet, and some of my "old" XP hardware, such as my MS game controllers. We (Vista and I) fought like crazy for two weeks, until, one by one, I got everything I wanted and needed to work on Vista, to work! As for games, once I shoved Quake III down its throat, and tweaked both the game and the OS, I got amazing performance from that old clunker QIII, over 70 fps, in some games. Also, on my gigabit network at home, I experienced none of the lag in the transfering of large files from one machine to another. I do admit to having experienced quite a number of the problems mentioned in the article, but, then I had most of those problems with the release of every new OS! I remember the issues I had with 98, 2k, ME and XP! The problem is not Vista, per se, but the general public's unwillingness to migrate to a new OS with a new learning curve, combined with growing complacency with technology.