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Re:Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar by Goronmon on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:47AM (#20391173)
It's funny because I felt Vista was perfectly fine as an OS, whereas ME was almost unusable (with the stability issues you mentioned). Vista was just boring, not great, but it worked. So it surprises me that so many people were frustrated by it.

Maybe I just hot lucky with my hardware choices at the time.

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Re:Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar by larvaetron on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:17AM (#20392609)
> So it surprises me that so many people were frustrated by it.

That might have been (in part) due to all of the underpowered PCs sold with "Windows Vista Capable" badges, IIRC there was a class-action lawsuit because of it.

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Re:Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar by theandrewbailey on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:46AM (#20391660)
My experiences are the same. I got a laptop around that time (one that promised an upgrade to Vista for free). XP would crash and blue screen about once a month. With Vista it never crashed or blue screened at all, and I was using it heavily for months. I built a PC soon after, which did blue screen with Vista, but I suspect it was the NVidia drivers (laptop had an ATI GPU).

I agree, Vista was boring, in the sense that it just worked and didn't get in the way. Now that I think about it, the built in Start Menu search bar made it awesome.

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Re:Microsoft Partner Network changes spark uproar by pferde on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:49AM (#20391690)
Vista, after a few service packs, was somewhat usable, but still a performance hog. It felt like an early alpha build of Win7 (once that came out).
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