kaled - 12:02 am on Oct 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

As a programmer, I am thoroughly fed up with Vista. As a user, I can live with it, but I dual boot and use XP most of the time (must get around to trying Virtual PC one day).

I use Firefox for general browsing (but Opera has a better download interface) so the worst of the visual changes only bother me when I have to use Explorer. The changes as to where things can be found don't annoy me as much as they might others since I have software (that I wrote) that creates a more standard interface across all Windows platforms. Neverthless, I am still totally bamboozled sometimes when I try to do something in Vista that I know how to do in XP - that is just plain crazy. It's one thing to create additional links to navigate operating system features, it's quite another to remove links. It is certainly true that MS has never been good at logical organization of features and, in my opinion, Vista is a step backwards in this regard rather than a step forwards.

Finally, whilst the additional features of the Vista messagebox interface might be useful to programmers eventually, the new file-overwrite/delete warning dialogs are totally awful - the old file dialogs are much better.

When people say "Vista works fine for me" they are, in effect saying, "you must be doing something wrong" to those that are having problems. Well, they may be doing something wrong, but equally, the problem may lie in the OS implementation or, maybe, in the design, both of which are faulty.

Kaled.