Thread: Tell me about errors in Vista. Actually no, list them

Aggressive page swapping - Was faster at one time, but not anymore. Macs and Linux take a second longer to load the file or program once, but it is in RAM then forever.

No on-the-fly defragmentation - OSX does it on-the-fly for small files and at boot time for larger ones, Linux does it when the PC is idle

Insane GPU requirements - Linux has more advanced GUI graphics and require very little GPU power

Poor RAM management - What EXO said about leaks

No native H.264 support - been the web media standard for a while now, WMP10 can't handle it

Still uses wmv as the standard video format - all videos made with M$ software comes in this format by standard, about the same size as H.264, but much lower quality

Still uses mp3 as the standard audio format - mp4 has been standard basically since the iPod came out

Still uses bmp or jpg as standard image format - PNGs are the same size as jpegs and lossless like bmps

Bloatware - Office, 'nuff said

Relics from old OSs that aren't even supported anymore - browse the icons of some of the programs, you will see 8bit colour versions that aren'te ven supported, they are too lazy to take them out, if they do that with icons, I bet the do it with everything else (why it's so bloated)

IE7 - Windows should ship with Safari or Firefox pre-installed

DLLs - programming HELL

No registry clean or defragmentation (tools or on-the-fly) - Keychains in Linux and OSX are kept neat and tidy, which is why they boot and run so fast, even when they're older

$90 to downgrade to XP - should be free with all the complaints M$ is getting

Steve Balmer listing "Innovations" that OSX and Linux have had for years - The guy is either blind or so full of himself he doesn't care.

Most applications packaged in it haven't been upgraded since Windows 3.1 - Paint, Notepad, Write, Calc are EXACTLY the same as they were in 3.1 almost 20 years ago.

No system-wide spell/grammar check - OSX has the built into the OS, not per program, takes up less RAM and is consistent.

Still in 32 bit and the 64 bit version has no backwards compatilibity - Ugh, sucks if you need the power of 64-bits, but software companies don't want to produce software for that smaller market

DirectX 10 has no backwards compatibility - Sucks for programmers and gamers alike

Microsoft refused to upgrade it's version of OpenGL - OpenGL is the standard. Sun comes up with it, but it's up to Apple and Microsoft to keep their ports up to date. M$ wants to force it's programmers to use X even though it's not as good.

Turn the security system and the OSX interface off, it's a very expensive version of XP - the core of Vista is the exact same core as XP