1. Jeff
   Aug 13th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

   totally agree, Ive just bought a new sony vaio with vista and after half an hour of using it I was very disappointed, its slow and crude and there is a popup to confirm what you want to do every 3 seconds, man I’ve just wasted a lot of money. its worse than win95, i am now thinking of installing xps2. I have switched everything to classic mode just to work on it half as fast as i used to on xp. If your a web designer like me then dreamweaver wont even install. I had to copy the dreamweaver folder from an xp installation to get it to work. tut bill, think again. never again will i buy a new OS that hasnt been out for year or 2.

2. Neil Kay
   Aug 26th, 2007 at 9:14 am

   Well, I just keyed in ‘vista shit’ into Google to see where it would take me and here I am.

   I have just spent the best part of this Sunday trying to get Office 2003 installed and working in order to migrate one of our users from an old, dying laptop and here I am just about to throw the damn thing out the Window.

   The new laptop is running Vista Home Premium and I have probably had it hang about 5 times, I have rebooted about the same amount and still Outlook won’t run without popping up the installer utility every few seconds. I hasten to add that this is a fully licenced, legitimate install and I really think it would be quicker to scrub the disk and install XP Pro.

   Microsoft’s Knowledge Base tells me to uninstall and reinstall Office - ha, that crashes - OK, try the installer cleanup utility - ha, that won’t run (VB error).

   Total Shite. I want six hours of my life back, Bill.

3. cromagnonXYZ
   Dec 15th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

   Vista = Sucks, Vista = Shit. You decide.

   I can not believe a company would dare sell such an inferior product.

   Microsoft should publish a list of just what actually works with this train wreck. The list of what doesn’t work would be much too long.

   So far, a lot of hardware, and much of the software I’ve tried doesn’t work. I’m talking about new stuff that’s supposed work, but doesn’t.

   Oh yeah, did I mention blue-screen of death?

4. Dave Bischoff
   Jan 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

   Dante was not cognizant of another circle in his Inferno - the 11th one reserved for Bill & Microsoft. The worst punishment is reserved for them- all will be chained to work stations run with Vista!

   The bright spot in this bleak-scape is I’ve made the leap to Linux. Take courage, fellow pilgrims. Our Deliverer shall come out of Unix.

5. Dazed and confused
   Jan 22nd, 2008 at 9:43 am

   Guys I can only sympathise and empathise. What a load of cr*p Vista is. Internet explorer keeps crashing, vista won’t install - in fact its worse than that it gets to a point where is installing and just when I expect to be asked for the license key everything disappears - so it doesn’t even tell me that it won’t install.

   My system is a quad core with 4GB of RAM - Vista practically makes XP2 look positively high speed.

   Shame on you Bill Gates

6. to pissed
   Mar 1st, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   PISS.. i just bought a $700 doller desk top and it came with vista.. i dident think it was too bad at first besides getting usedto the whole layout and damn thing that pops up telling you pointless shit
   AND NOTHING CAN DOWNLOAD TO VISTA!!!! my camcorder cant run on vista and sony that makes it dosent even have a driver for vista
   so why make a program that is a pice of shit that you cant download anything to or run anything on!!!!

   would rather use windows 98 than vista!!!

7. Mike
   Mar 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

   Haha, I typed in “Vista is shit” in Google as Windows Explorer crashed for the 1000th time as I try to copy some photos off of an SD card. And here I am. People want a stable OS that provides basic functionality that allows others to build on it. The OS has to be rock solid. Why, oh why, has Bill given up? He was driven, he had a vision, and now it is all about $$$ and not about providing something excellent to a consumer, to allow people to do more than they ever dreamed. So sad to see the Microsoft vision turn into this.

8. aaggghhhh
   Mar 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

   Can’t get any work done since vista was released :’(
   Hardware drivers aren’t being supported properly since vista came out, gaming has been killed, tasks are slower, the interface is innefficient for hardcore PC users, aero is a pointless use of processing usage (a gimmick), i get prompted every 2 seconds about how dangerous it is to open my own files, and it even tells you that you have no priviledges over you own computer… and so can someone tell me why should I be happy about vista ?

9. Amanda
   Apr 2nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm

   Ha, I typed “vista shit” in google, too, and here I am. I cannot believe this product was released with such basic bugs particularly in explorer - all I want to do is copy a file. I plan to revert to XP, the best (relative term) Microsoft OS, in my opinion.

10. Damian
    Apr 5th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

    Amazing - I typed in Vista’s Shit into google in frustration and ended up here. Just installed the Vista SP1 into a system and now says it has lost the trust relationship with the main server. I haven’t come accross one corporate client that would consider touching it for 2-3 years. I think any IT department that would take this on would need to be very courageous or stupid. It is a shame a company with such a monopoly can think it can churn out a product to market with so many bugs. Obviously the SOHO market are by default the beta users for Microsoft Vista. Extremely bad product, marketing, hype, result. It is ashame the Commodore Amiga didn’t continue it was light years ahead of anything else on the market just marketed and positioned wrong. Should have been positioned as a business computer rather than a gaming computer. Unfortunately we have to work with Vista to test our software against for the poor soles that have Vista installed.

11. wayne
    Apr 8th, 2008 at 7:11 am

    What a load of crap vista is !!!!!! I used it for 10 mins and decided after it would not load a basic zonealarm fire wall to return my nice new ACER laptop and vista to point of purchase tomorrow…..talk about your ‘negative out of the box experience!!”…..I will stick with my old laptop with XP2SP2 which does work!!!

12. hippy
    Apr 13th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    yes, vista is shit !
    Too many security questions
    (you have to untick a box in the control panel to stop this)
    Firewall is shit and everything else is very slow and very annoying
    i feel lost using vista
    hides all your internet files and activities.
    I’m running home premium edition with the all very latest updates. It’s not worth it
    Give me xp anyday
    or even 98

13. eyesonly
    Apr 19th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Commodore Amiga?!? Put down the crack pipe! Atari FTW hehe ;) Anyway it makes me laugh when I type “Vista is shit” into searchalot.com and this comes up. The real tragedy is that this crap is going to be all that is on offer for a while when they take xp off the shelf. I think the only operating system micro$haft released that worked properly was my TRS-80 Color Computer Basic lol but seriously I actually paid for my copy of XP Pro and I feel it is well worth the money. It’s got the usability of ‘98 with more stability and scalability. I really think the heydey for Micro$uck was the 98-xp period, ignoring the beta releases of the new millenium (2000/Me) which were released to a date and not ready, as is the case with Vista. XP has the gameability that 98 did and the stability that 2000 was supposed to have had. If windows 7 is another bloatware pile of shit I think Micro$haft has had the sword. There is one good thing about Vista, apparently you can still use a Windows Classic desktop theme ;)

14. jakub
    Apr 19th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    Vista is SHIT! yes … 6 hours waiting for installing service pack .. and another 5 hours waiting for rolling changes back, because update was not successfull; I hate Vista ! But i need DirectX 10…

15. jakub
    Apr 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

    … and my configuration ?
    Intel Core2 Duo 2×3GHz
    2GB 800MHz DDR2
    1TB hard drives
    … not enough for Microsoft Windows Vista UPDATE

16. Marsha
    Apr 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    How funny that we all resorted to googling Vista Shit- seems to be the final phase of frustration. I too have wasted a beautiful day trying to resolve a “known issue” with outlook remote web access only to be told it is the exchange servers fault! Funny XP works just fine. I was trying to avoid have to revert back to XP version on this new laptop. I had so wanted to go APPLE but needed the exchange server interface for work - jokes on me I guess. What a ton of frustration for something that should be an improvement.

17. Allen
    Apr 21st, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Yeah, I also came here by googling for “why is vista shit?”. Check this out:
    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2008/tc20080410_206881.htm

18. mike
    Apr 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    vista is plain crap recall this shit..im run a dual core..2 gigs ram ..and dual booted it with xp and id like to take it out and smash it and go buy a real MAC..recall this shit MR. William Gates
    Vista to me is a peice of recallable horse crap.

19. pissingonmyvistadisk
    May 1st, 2008 at 11:06 am

    2weeks of vista and I’m ready to get a mac. Microsoft has outdone itself this time. Pissed off have of north america with ME. Vista is pissing off the rest.
    Best not want to try to transfer a file larger than a pinhead not going to happen.Best thing they could have done would have been to add some new features into xp and charge anyone a little extra if they wanted them.Vista has become a waste of both time and money.Spent at least 6 hours over the past week talking to vista support only to discover I have more knowledge in my little toe.

20. pissingonmyvistadisk
    May 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am

    amd 2core 4200
    4 gig fo 800 ram
    600 gig free hard drive space
    and told I have not enough memory what a crock of shit

21. Audioduck
    May 6th, 2008 at 3:52 am

    How interesting!

    We all got here by searching for Vista Shit !

    For the sake of your own sanity, please don’t install MS Office 2007 on a Vista platform.

    I’m pushing as many of my customers as possible over to Linux for basic services. Vista just isn’t worth the trouble and the cost.

    Sorry Bill. I’ve had it with Windows.

22. Delos
    May 16th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    heh, I got here by tying ‘vista is shit’ in to Google, funny that ;)

23. Andrew
    May 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Hey I got here by typing “Vista is shit” into Google too. Not surprising, in itself, but surprising how many people have actually had such a negative sentiment as to bother typing it into Google. I usually have better things to do.

    Ive already installed ubuntu and have even been seriously considering a MAC. It is truly, very bad. Possibly the WORST interface and user experience Ive had ever from any windows.

    I had to uninstall MSOffice 2007 because that was annoying too (although better than the Vista UI I admit) and that has f***ed up my MSOffice 2003 which I have now installed.

    Ive wasted HOURS on trying to fix stuff in Vista which wont work. Im sick of it. AND its taking up 15gb of footprint on my 64gb of solid disk drive on my new X300. OH GOD i wish i had ordered XP.

24. Jem
    May 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Ha yep, same as, typed in “vista is shit” and here I am….
    nothing works! games and all, should have listend to the chappy in the shop when he warned me about vistas unreliability etc.

    Anyone ever had a problem where it’s lost any connection to the speakers? Turned on my laptop this morning and it says there aren’t any, done a system restore and it’s still failed…

    Vista has broken too many times for my liking, contemplating a change! It may look all fancy but it’s pretty useless. Failure.

25. Josh
    Jun 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Jem: Oh yes…the speakers problem. I’ve had that happen countless times. It took me so long to figure out that i needed to go into Device manager to fix it. And the same with my SD Card reader, It says it’s working properly, but yet i put in a memory card, and no workage. A simple “Disable” and “enable” of the driver in Device Manager fixes it.

    Windows Explorer crashes on my daily, I can’t run basic programs without running into numerous problems.

    Vista has outdone itself with so many screw ups. By taking away so many features that I came to love with XP. Such as the “Local Security Policy”..where did that go? I know i’ve seen it in the Buisiness edition, but for Home Premium, Home computers are nothing without security. And the simple, “Classic Logon” remember that one guys? It all involves Registry edits to get most of them back. It’s just too much effort to put forth when i can be putting that effort into enhancin my, clearly better, XP experience.

    I’ve got a Dual Boot with XP Pro and Vista home Premium. And i use Vista maybe once a month. If that.

    2 GB RAM
    900 GB Hard Drive
    Dual Core Processor.

    And it tells me i need more disk space.

    I think the programers for Vista spent too much time on the Animations, and Sho-offy effects that gave vista it’s wonderful name, that they forgot something. A halfway descent UI!!

    Never mind any of the hardware glitches and whatnot..

    Vista is Retarded

    And I am very surprised so many people have had the experience they have, to make them type “Vista is shit” into google, and come accross this.

26. Christ (Henry)
    Jun 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    I bought a machine with Vista a few months ago but have just started using it when my XP machine died an honourable (yes, I am English, as is my father) death after four years almost uninterrupted (sp?) service.

    Nothing works with it. It doesn’t even come with Nero.

    Take heart, though. You have my guarantee that Mr Gates will have a very long and unpleasant experience at the hands of my cousin, Lucifer.

27. Christ (Henry)
    Jun 7th, 2008 at 11:58 am

    I have only been using Vesta (it is much better as a crap ready meal than an operating system - and I bet Gates has as much a sense of humour as our new dear leader - Gordon Broon) for a couple of days but am being amazed every few minutes at what it cannot do.

    I tried to play an .avi file and windows media player (or should that be unplayer) can’t handle it. To quote Bart Simpson “What The Fuck?”

28. Christ (Henry)
    Jun 7th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    To add to my last comment - I have downloaded and installed VLC media player and it works fine.

    Admitedly, Windows Media Player says that it just needs a new codec but with a new machine you should not have to go through all that crap just to do basic things.

    I hope that servant Salamander works as a replacement to Windows Explorer (or the weird thing that has replaced it). If I ever have a choice I will use anything in preference to Microshit products. Someday I may have the confidence to move to Linux.

29. Doobydont
    Jun 9th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    Vista really is a big pile of cack. I’ve worked in IT support for 10 years and this is definately the worst offering I’ve seen from MS so far. I just recently bought a very nice Dell laptop which came with it already on it as the XP option is no longer an option so I thought I’d bite the bullet and give it a go.

    Don’t get me wrong it’s a nice OS when it’s working but within the space of three weeks I’ve had to restore it twice, yes twice as MS updates have killed the logon process. Sometimes it’ll have a whinge about wireless drivers but other times not. Simply it’s just not good enough. I could maybe understand it if I was using a clone with some odd hardware in it but this is a bog standard Dell laptop for heavens sake.

30. Rage
    Jun 11th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    I just got this new intel laptop and in 3 days, things are already crashing and i have to now use my re-installation disk to redo it

    Vista is garbage and yes, I found myself here by googling “vista is shit”

31. Vista?? No way
    Jun 14th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    Oh my fu**ing god!! The seller told my father to buy a computer with Vista because its “modern”! Tomorrow I go to the shop to downgrade on XP. I cant stand this! Shame on Microsoft and evryone who tells us that Vista is good!!!!!!!!!!

32. martin
    Jun 15th, 2008 at 1:48 am

    I have been using Vista Bussines for 1 month, this is NIGHTMARE. Every day starts slower, except those day that doesn’t start - I see black screen. Many pograms stops working - unpredictible. E.G. today aftert start sound and printer services don’t work. Another funny example - sound in some programs works in other not. Interface nice but also unstable. There is 1 positive asset of Bussiness Vista - You can make DOWNGRADE to XP

33. Platothefish
    Jun 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    I have bought a macbook. Vista convinced me. After the latest Vistashit ‘update’ I now have a $1700 Sony door stop. I used to like blue. Blue was my favorite color. I have now seen soooo many blue screens I hate blue.
    My new mac works. It just works. I could cry with happiness. I open it and there it is ready to go in about 1.2 nanoseconds. I now have so much time on my hands. I have this gap in my life where I used to have to struggle with installing new drivers, turning nag screens off and hunting down one obscure box to untick hidden 25 deep in windows so that I could work.
    So on this the calmer side of my vistashit woes I would like to offer something to all those who are still struggling…. enjoy:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3rfuKwMDI&feature=related

    Wow
    Platothefish

34. Mike Vail
    Jun 16th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    “The WOW starts now”, “Join the social”. They really need better marketing terms. But “mobile me” isn’t much better

35. Pete Farrow
    Jun 25th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Well, Vista SP1 compounds the nightmare, you now get an “updated” piece of shit on a stick.

    I am amazed how Micro$oft have managed to make in run so slow in inter-stellar hardware, Quad core 4 gigs RAM ATI 3870×2 and its still slow.

    Crappest yet from Redmond, and that is saying something…

36. Bill
    Jun 25th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    I have worked in IT for many years. I have also used Micrisoft products for many years from Windows 1 (Yes I am that old).
    Windows Vista is the end of the line for Microsoft. It is indeed shit.
    It is inferior to WinXP SP2 in many areas. If Microsoft had any sense or dignity or decency they would offer a free downgrade from Vista to unsatisfied customers to XP if they are not satisfied. This is capitalism gone WRONG. I am not a fan of LINUX but I think the only winners here will be Apple and LINUX. This is the end for you Bill Gates (Seriously it is that bad)

37. Jeff
    Jul 12th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    I was trying to find out if anyone knows why iTunes runs like crap on every PC I’ve ever seen it on, and came across this blog. Just interesting to me because for all the bad press it’s getting and blog posts like this, my home system running the 64-bit version has never given me a single hiccup I didn’t cause myself; my fiancee’s 32-bit Vista Premium has occasional problems but we’ve most often traced them back to something she did; the media PC I’m typing this on from my living room has been running great, playing every bit of content I’ve thrown at it without problems, until I decided to use iTunes on it of course. Lag lag lag, slow, unresponsive, pile of Apple crappola. I love the iPhone, yet I hate Apple and their continuing desire to make everything as proprietary as possible - yes, even worse than Microsoft.

    Anyhow, I’m curious after seeing all these comments from a year ago if anyone tracks back to this and has given Vista another go post-SP1? We’re staying away from it at work most likely, but on the server side I’m really impressed so far with Server 2008. And the code base between Vista and Server ‘08 is neck deep, so there’s another interesting consideration. So any opinions change in the past year?

38. ttttttt
    Jul 27th, 2008 at 6:16 am

    VISTA IS REAL SHIT!!!! IT IS TRUE!!!! IT IS SHIT!!!! I HATE WINDOWS VISTA!!!! I HATE MICROSOFT!!!!! WINDOWS VISTA IS SHIT!!!!! CRASHING MENY TIMES A DAY, ERASING FOLDERS BY ITSELF, FUCKING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, IT IS EVEN WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE!!!!! YOU NEED COUPLE MINUTES, TO FACE HUNDRETS BUGS AND SHIT!!!! VISTA SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!

39. David Tyson
    Jul 29th, 2008 at 2:34 am

    I decided to give Vista another go after SP1 was released. It exact same as the last 2 times I gave it a chance. Its nice to begin with, then you hit the 2 week period and you get to the point where you snap, stop everything you are doing. Format and reload XP sp2. I use my hotmail account in Outlook 07. The outlook connector did not like vista and never synced properly. Pain in the ass when I had no emails coming in for 2 days not realising that its just fucked. The power management for laptops really shits me. Its very poor on vista and the options are so simple, with not much help from Acer either. Networking is a pain in the arse. I cant connect to printers on XP machines because of driver issues. I cant view Vista shared drives on XP machines. And the whole Network and sharing centre is a joke. Find options to turn things off takes 5 - 10 mins and usualy results in googling. Honestly, I use to love PC and hate Mac but now days. Im actually giving Mac a decent chance because Microsoft have fucked this one well and truly up

40. I made Bill richer by buying his crap
    Aug 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    I dual boot Vista and XP. 99% of the time I use XP. For some strange reason, which I can not yet work out yet I decided to start using it 4 days ago, what a mistake that was…

    …I uninstalled my ndivida GFX drivers as they were old. On rebooting I tried to install my new drivers and it just took so long I thought the installation had gone tits up. So I cancelled the installation and let Vista install them from the updates this also took ages. My patients by this time was very close to snapping.
    I tried to clam my patients by shouting every know curse word I could think of at Vista. I waited another minute for Vista to get it’s act together, my patients snapped and my middle finger did the 4 second dance. On reboot Vista gave me the middle finger and did the BSOD dance. Ok, fuck you Vista. I booted into XP and got massive satisfaction when I formatted my Vista partition. After the war I typed Vista is shit into google and found my way here.

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