Damn Vista!

[ManchestrMorgue]

Originally Posted by stubbornforgey

yeah just read that too..
its compatible ..hrm ..unusual

Actually, I haven't had too many compatibility problems with Vista.

My camcorder works (and it is about 2 years old)

I have 3 printers that all work - 2 of them have actual vista drivers written for them, and for the other one, the XP driver works fine.

My scanner has Vista drivers written for it.

NVidia's drivers are a bit immature, but they work.

My Digital TV card has drivers in Vista (didn't need to install anything - just autodetected).

The configuration software for my mouse (Razer Copperhead) didn't work, but within about 1 week there were beta drivers available on the Razer developers website which have worked fine.


The compatibility issues that I have struck so far have been with software - eg Premiere Elements v2.0 doesn't work properly, some games don't install properly, or require some workarounds to get them going. But this happens pretty much whenever a new OS is introduced (eg remember going from Windows 98/ME to XP - lots of games died for me in the transition).

And at least with Vista you don't have to use driver floppies etc to get it to recognise SATA drives on install - and it recognises the whole hard drive (not just 137 gb or whatever it is - my XP disc is pre-service pack).

There are still some bugs in Vista that cause it to operate a bit unexpectedly - but then again there are still bugs in XP :(

Overall, I don't think Vista is so bad, and in many ways it's a real improvement over XP. Personally, I am dual booting both of them at the moment (with each on a 320gig hard drive) so that when I no longer need the XP compatibility (eg upgraded software) then just delete that XP drive and reconfigure the boot loader.

But for those who aren't computer savvy, and don't want to buy a whole new system (incl. peripherals and software) then I can see why staying with XP for a while is not a bad idea. But as you said before, everyone is going to need Vista sooner or later - I mean, Microsoft is not just going to forget about Vista and go back to XP. Developers will follow suit.