I realise MS has a task on its hands with ensuring their OS works on a range of hardware specs, but I am more concerned with privacy and freedom of choice.
In the original link it talks about restrictions to types of media and software you can use with Vista. Large Media houses obviously play part in this role trying to restrict viewing of certain formats etc..
I have a relatively new Toshiba that came with Vista, its an AMD Dual Core Processor with 1.8gb of RAM and an ATI Graphic card. Vista is a pig on it compred with my PC at work which is a Intel Celeron nothing to write home about 1.6ghz PC.
It runs Photoshop Faster and Loads Browsers and Multitasks better than my home Toshiba Laptop which is substaintially faster - or should be.
My Toshiba laptop came bundled with a customised version of Vista to suit my laptop with all these useless utilities they usually bundle with your system. To be quite frank I'm sick of it all, I'm sick of the license restrictions, I'm sick of the different versioning of Windows, I'm sick of the constraints and the total dominance by Microsoft in the market place.
To be honest I can't really name any advantage of Vista over XP. For the common user where is the real advantage? Its just seems more resource hungry to me.
What really annoys me though is that I can't easily install IE6 for browser testing on Vista. I just spent an entire weekend fluffy about trying to get IE6 working under Vista. I finally got something working using Vmware and Win XP.
Fluff, if I had a MAC and parraellels it would have been up in 10 mins.
I'm jumping ship first opportunity
> My g/f has Ubuntu on her old old laptop and it surfs the web quicker than my new PC with Vista, plus it hasn't given her 1 hassle.