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[Jon!]

Windows is getting easier and simpler to run. Once you get around creating a partition to run it on, Vista seems to fix itself on many smaller problems, I think, but don't quote me on that (apart from one bug with shadow copies which hog nearly 200GB if left untrimmed, PM me if you have unexplainable space loss I can fix it), for example: "nations.exe has stopped working, windows is searching for a solution to the problem." if it doesn't find a solution you can try again with it, and the amount of stuff on the net to help you fix things is immense.

Vista is tbh full of larger bugs which are plain annoyin, but I quote someone on a forum when I had a vista insomnia problem: "Microsoft basically released a beta OS and threw it at us." it IS vista not windows. I loved XP because it was great before I had much knowledge of stuff like cmd and task manager, and hardware maintenance, and windows 7 will hopefully be the same. If not, Microsoft will be permanently red-cheeked.

[DW_Mobius]

While your point about Vista is totally valid, I didn't mean to focus in so closely on it. I referenced it most because I've used it for the better part of the past two years so that's what I think of atm when I think of Windows, and I've never had really ANY of the issues that you keep making seem so prominant (and that's with almost all Windows, as the only truly sour experience with a Windows OS was Millenium.) Maybe I've just gotten good at tweaking minor settings in my OS's but in reality I was speaking of Windows in general, with the exclusion of 95' as I never really toyed with it.

That aside I think the real issue is that I just get really annoyed when people start making such enormously broad generalizations as you have. It's a major pet pieve of mine, and then on top of that, I just don't like any OS that I have to run a program like Wine to run other programs, (except for the obvious, like an old DOS game).

[Jon!]

Yeah, I was trying to iron out any doubts from people saying "Vista was crap, don't go with windows, why pay for that!" when it was fine as an OS despite the bugs. A crap OS is one which is not compatible with games (That means LINUX) without another program. I know it's free but MS has many more features and is user-friendly. You can customize your OS and there are easy ways to combat spyware etc. failing AV programs.

Overall, Vista is only a not great for the money but definitely invest in Win7 over free linux. (And buy a nice touch-screen monitor too!)

A bit of advice though if you liked Office '03 then don't get '07, get OpenOffice, it's free and resembles Office 03.

[DW_Damaged]

I could write a book about this post but all I will say is you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time.

[DW_BrainPan]

I could write a book about this post but all I will say is you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time.

I agree Damaged. Both systems have their pros and cons, but listing them would be futile because in the end you can't adjust for each individual users preference/experience.

[Jon!]

yup. too right. some will think that the pros of Windows are not for them or not for the price...