Slow.
Very.
Too much overhead.
Unless you make some mods to background jobs.
“I’ve been running a PC and a laptop on Vista for over 7 years ... no problems.
What’s your beef?”
I’ve seen Vista run very well on some computers, and extremely poorly on others. From what I’ve read & heard there’s a lot of overhead in Vista and it requires top notch hardware to run well. Most PC manufacturers were bundling Vista with PC’s that had no business running it.
“I’ve been running a PC and a laptop on Vista for over 7 years ... no problems.
What’s your beef?”
I also had a pc with vista for 5-6 years, only problem i ever had was when adding music files for some reason vista liked to duplicate them in media player. A coworker had the same type of issue, importing pictures resulted in duplication.
I recently purchased a new PC due to an outdated processor and RAM limitations. The new PC came with WIN 8.1..................so far it’s been fine.
I ran Windows ME for as long and rather liked it. As long as you kept it maintained and running smooth it was nice. WinXP is more resilient due to the NTFS so the switch was a no brainer. But no real complaints on ME.
I agree with oh8eleven ,, Vista worked fine for me ... especially the “business” version which was really just an early release of 7 .. I am on a XP machine right now still works fine but it could use some extra horsepower for todays bloatware... especially the video and interactive bloatware.
$100 to buy new isn’t much of an incentive when they expect you to pay $600 to qualify..
I’m sticking with Vista Business on my desktops and 7 64bit on the others... why give MS any hard earned dinero other than the original fees.