I'm on Vista 64 too and it stinks. Oh for my Win 2000!

I also saw a report that sales of XP were the highest they have ever been...people seem to be buying XP to replace Vista on new machines, win-win for MS :)

I have a new mega-laptop that came with Vista 64 Ultimate. I need the 64 bit Windows to be able to use the 4 gig of RAM in it. So far it seems to work really well and I like the extra bells and whistles. My only problem so far is the lack of 64 bit drivers for my Line 6 audio gear. Vegas and the rest of the Sony suite of programs seems to work just fine.

It seems to me that computers designed from the ground up to work with Vista actually work quite well with the new OS. I wouldn't upgrade an older system to the new OS however.

it appears that 100milion copies have been sold so far.

"Appears" is a good word to use here.

A huge number of these are unused licenses made available under corporate software update agreements. Unused because older PCs would need to be updated beyond the point of reasonableness, on top of the issues with retraining and getting new versions of corporate applications.

Vista SP1 promises to speed up the sluggish file system finally, anyone confirmed this?

Coursedesign, good explanation! And how many of Visa users opt'ed for XP?


"Vista SP1 promises to speed up the sluggish file system finally, anyone confirmed this?" I haven't noticed any real improvement on Visa-32bit, but thats on some new X2s and not any q6600s, ---------- for the moment, XP pro appears to be a lot better than Visa 32bit but I'm been really slow even to look closely at Visa ( with an open mind_) ------------ Apple looks better some days for personal use. ------------------

Like the other poster said, there are a lot of corporate entities with upgrade agreements as part of the corporate licensing. That is, with a corporate volume license, you are entitled to an upgrade if you wish, not really free, but no additional cost.

My day job has 40,000+ employees/computers. Still, that's just a drop in the bucket compared to 100,000,000.

Also, MS required OEMs to include Vista with new systems. It was mandatory until about last month. How many have been uninstalled?

Vista has a 1 transfer license agreement, then you have to buy the product again. How many people have had to buy Vista twice?

I read a statistic yesterday that a web tracking firm that monitors about 50,000 web-sites found that 9.5% of the hits to those sites in 4th quarter 2007 were Vista. I think that data puts Vista into perspective.

>>...100milion copies have been sold ..

Like most have stated, 100 million *sold* and 100 million *in use* are two very different things. :)

In the past 9 months I have bought 3 new PC's with Vista. All three now run XPpro.

"XP on 50% more PCs than Vista in 2007," per Electronista.

They used to play this silly numbers game in the Pinnacle Studio forums, too. Heck, they GAVE the lousy P.O.S. program away with DVD burners and then beat their chests about the 'installed user base'. (gag)

What those numbers DON'T mention are the hordes of people who ran away screaming and tearing their hair out after trying to use it.

By this rationale, wouldn't Minesweeper be the most popular computer game in the history of home computing? Or Notepad the favored editor?

Just 'cause it's installed doesn't mean anybody uses it...