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Consumer group demands free copies of XP for Vista victims
THE DUTCH CONSUMER'S ASSOCIATION, Consumentenbond, is advising punters to ask for Windows XP rather than Vista when buying a new PC. The outfit set up its own site where users could file complaints about the new OS and notched up 5,000 moans in its first five weeks of operation.
Consumentenbond is also recommending shops offer free copies of XP to end users having issues with Vista. The organisation met Microsoft Nederland yesterday (Thursday) and suggested that MS might like to supply the free copies of XP, pointing out that business users already enjoy a similar service. It is understood that Microsoft refused to play ball.
"The product has many teething problems, it is just not ready," said a Consumentenbond spokesperson. µ
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Yep they are right

Vista sucks..no one cares about this garbage

With XP you know that everything will work for you fine without compatibility problems so why even bother with Vista

Vista is one of the worse OS that MS ever created after Windows Millenium

the only good about Vista is DX10 and still not everyone cares about it so much except from some Extreme gamers
OMG, VISTA is great, people who are running VISTA on a P4 with 512mb of ram are going to have problems, vista requires 1GB min......its like putting a HONDA engine in a FERRARI!!!
why is there so much crap about vista, no one should use it blah blah, there is nothing wrong with it .
the media centre part actually works compared to the 2005 copy which doesnt, vista is great, I run all my games dx9 and dx10 is fine, all my movies play, sharing my media to my other pc's is easier more secure, stop your biatching people, buy some decent hardware to start with and vista will work for you SIMPLE
I have been testing the waters with a dual boot of Vista Business and XP Professional for the last 3 days.

While the OS is certainly bloated (600mb+ on boot!) and a bit lacking in performance in certain areas, I have not encountered any serious problems thus far. Maybe what I use the computer for has allowed me to steer clear of many of the problems others seem to be experiencing. In some cases I have found game performance has actually increase over XP such as with Oblivion, while others like Prey are acting buggy. I actually got a ancient game called Lands of Lore III to run on Vista were on XP it would just crash to desktop.

I think the main problem with Vista other than the general bloatedness and compatibility issues is a lack of perceivable improvement over previous operating systems. While Vista is certainly much more user friendly than XP; it hasn’t got enough strong features to justify adoption over the leaner XP, people see it as a pretty and fattened XP full of DRM.

I will still be evaluating the OS for the next week or so; but so far I think the people in this article are over reacting, Vista isn’t perfect but it isn’t bad enough to label its users as being “victims” either. Of course that may just be my experience, which doesn’t override that of others.

My specs so people know what I find works.

2GB DDR800
Leadtek 256mb 7900GT
AMD 5600+ x2

Perhaps if retailers weren’t trying to sell bare bone minimum spec Vista machines, more people would have a positive experience.
I hope they sue Microsoft for malfunctioning products.
As Vista is a bunch of crap....
M$ can get away with everything.