Having said that I do appreciate that there are some people who like it: I have a friend who absolutely loves it…But overall the launch onwards was one of, if not the greatest one of, Microsoft’s biggest failures since ME: Driver and hardware incompatibility were major issues due to M$’s secret development policy and their reticence to disclose hardware requirements to the component manufacturers; although granted those manufacturers were also slow off the mark.

Even after the hardware was being made to the correct standard; Vista proved to be full of bugs. Even after the final retail release of SP1 – Which took down a few systems – Vista is till slower in some departments than XP, despite its grandiose hardware and memory requirements.

It’s not so much a case of myself not liking Vista as it is of the facts speaking for themselves. I am, in all honesty, what could be described as a “wintard”; but in my opinion to give any comment on Vista other than “FAIL” wouldn’t be keeping true to myself and my feelings about the operating system.

Your opinion may be different; and I respect that fact. I apologise for any offence caused by my words.