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criticism is not constructive if it cannot be.

Criticizing vista is generally little other than an exercise of complaining, whining, etc. Microsoft most likely does not hear the majority of it, and therefore cannot do anything about it. You cannot do anything about vista's poor qualities other than not use it.

Criticism is only truly useful when it can have a positive impact.

Imagine saying, I don't think it should have rained today. Although phrased as a criticism, there is no possible good change that can come from that statement. Therefore, it is simply a complaint.

Truly, however, criticizing vista in the proper venues and at times where some good can come of it could be constructive, generally, however, it is as useful as criticizing god for the weather. If you want it different, go elsewhere.




Criticizing vista is generally little other than an exercise of complaining, whining, etc.

Have you ever tried it? I have. I had to go back to XP because I had so much commercial software that would not run on Vista. Good luck finding a new laptop with XP in your local Office Depot.

Criticism is only truly useful when it can have a positive impact.

Agreed. To anyone reading this: Don't get Vista. It's garbage. There. I just gave positive impact. I potentially saved many strangers a lot of unnecessary pain.

If you want it different, go elsewhere.

Where have you been the last 20 years? If you have commercial or enterprise customers, there is no elsewhere.


If you don't want Vista why would you buy a laptop from Office Depot? If you have enterprise customers then you can downgrade to XP when buying from Dell, or presumably HP. I think it's more of a positive note that Microsoft is softly breaking from some of the Legacy requirements that people complain of so much.


xp, mac, linux. most enterprise customers are on xp, not vista.

Yes I've used vista, only moderately, someone wanted a new computer and even though I advised against vista, they bought it anyways.

most likely everyone here knows vista's garbage. providing the same criticism repeatedly is generally futile. If you didn't get through the last few times, what makes you think it'll change now.




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