My friend just bought a new laptop, and it came with Vista pre-installed. I kind of feel sorry for him, after spending all that money he has to deal with this... thing.
As is to be expected, Vista has all the incompatibility problems of any new OS. And although Vista is flashy and hi-tech, Microsoft seems to have locked down virtually everything, making the simplest tasks such as installing a web browser annoying as hell (a lot of it was just the typical pop ups you get bombarded with when you get a new computer, still much of it was entirely unneccessary). The security is flat out ridiculous, and extremely overbearing. They butchered the start menu. And I want my simple link to Windows Explorer back, I couldn't seem to find C: drive anywhere so I could explore it's contents. Are they hiding something?
I only got to play with it for about an hour, so I am still rather uninformed. But from what I can see, Vista can go to hell and it shouldn't come back until Microsoft gets it's nose out of my business and gives users free reign over their own damn computers! A pretty user interface is not enough to distract me! As an average college student, Vista offers me nothing that I don't already have.
