Fair comment, I just never got on with it. I can make an image in a few minutes and restore it in a few minutes. Thing is I use very few apps the require installation. In fact, when I think about it, it’s only the CFPl, BOClean and MS office. Everything else I use is in a directory which I back up whenever it changes. So I restore the image, restores the the apps directory, and I’m away 
Btw I have images with and without security apps.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is no faster than the original version, according to a performance testing software vendor.[url=http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=10703]source: TechWorld[/url]
Anybody surprised?
I am. By the sheer 10-to-1 XP/Vista ratio. I had no idea Vista was that hated. 
It doesn’t meant it’s “hated” nor should it come as a surprise. As per my previous post:
People who have never had a chance to even test out something, let alone possess it, cannot comment on that product, so they vote on what they know.
You know, for me there’s something about Wikipedia: either you already know in advance about the topic of the article, or you don’t understand a word of the article. Anyone else?
System Restore is a very nice feature. Of course it shouldn’t be used on an infected system, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad feature because that’s not what it’s intended for, even if people aren’t aware. Actually it’s but a partial image, of the registry and of system and program files.
People who have never had a chance to even test out something, let alone possess it, cannot comment on that product, so they vote on what they know.
I hadn’t voted because of that, but finally interpreted the question in a broader sense and voted for XP. Okay Vista works but it’s purposedly conceived as bloatware and I don’t like that. What I want an OS for is running programs and managing files, period.
Only you I guess ;D
Actually works that way too 
This is the reason because usually some worms disable that. If there are any leftowers AV will catch them eventually.
Of course you’re not restricted on that., it’s just that’s what I think most people vote by: their own experience.
On my own PC i’ve got XP but we’ve got also a new PC with vista home premium installed on it!
Guess what? The first time i started that pc, windows vista got installed and after the reboot: the computer crashed! And i really couldn’t find a reset button… So my brand new Vista was totally frozen! Wow… what an eXPerience!
But now i can work on it, but i prefer XP above Vista.
But there are a few things I like to say, which are better in Vista Home Premium
But what I hate about vista:
Maybe i should buy a mac… oh no! 'Cause then i can’t use Comodo (V)
You big meanie! :-[
Anyway, now that I read beyond the intro of the article (which should be the most easy part to understand), isn’t this (yet again) copied from Mac?
For me Linux is no use, since I’m a Native Instruments Traktor user and this app only runs on Windows or MAC.
My brother has a MAC notebook and I think that I’m very used to the windows look and feel, so I stay with windows OS.
Now, as many have mentioned in this post, many promises made by Microsoft were not delivered to windows vista, specially the mighty WinFS.
The fact is that it seems that the software trends are to make the software bloatware.
One clear example is the Norton 360 (:AGY)
A friend of mine got his notebook with Norton 360 preloaded and it really take a HUGE amount of resources…
And there are many other examples of bloatware.
It seems that many software developers are going the easy way:
“we have many ram, many HDD space, ultra fast CPUs… so lets NOT optimize our software”
In other of my posts I mentioned two great examples of how the software should be done:
the antivirus NOD32 and Comodo Firewall. Both apps are clear example of efficient and resource friendly software…
I’ve not being able to try Comodo Firewall v3, but my guess is that it’s still a very well written app.
To conclude, in my experience I’ve found that for Windows Vista to run properly, you need at last 1 GB of RAM, and as someone else mentioned in this thread, a newer CPU…
It seems that WinFS should have been more complex that MacosX Spotlight.
One thing it’s for sure Spotlight is Faster than the current Windows XP search 
Yes and I found it more stable than Windows98 SE.
The only reason I changed my desktop to a Vista computer was the motherboard kept refusing to recognize the hard drive and did not like the idea of trying to update the bios on a computer that old.
Dennis
Wouldn’t it have recognized the hard drive if you limited its capacity to 32 GB by placing a jumper on the appropriate pins?
Thanks for the info
Dennis