Yep. I recently took the Vista plunge on one of my machines. Grave mistake!

I’ve had enough of the nonsense. While Windows Vista is a great operating system environment, it’s still got way too many bugs to make the entire experience of using Windows Vista worthwhile. I suffer from the “music skipping” syndrome via Media Player 11 (or any other media player for that matter) which was more than enough to make me ditch Windows Vista until Microsoft and/or the hardware vendors get off their rear ends and produce drivers that actually work. What can I say, I have to have my music (and no, I am not changing out my sound card. Why should I? The damn thing works just fine under XP, so wouldn’t it make sense that something as simple as a sound card should work under Vista, too?) Not to mention gaming performance has been less than impressive, and we’re talking games which ran like Super Pursuit Mode on XP, but suck on Vista.

I am rather appalled that Microsoft would release Windows Vista in such an early infancy, Windows XP was never this bad when it was first released. Yes, I know, the driver model has changed dramatically in Windows Vista; so that being said right there is reason enough Microsoft should have waited another year before releasing Vista to the public.

Cripes, I feel like I am using beta software when I run Windows Vista. Not good.

So, all that said, I am going to wait until Microsoft and/or the hardware manufacturers can produce drivers that actually work. Whether that appears, who knows. Service Pack 1 be damned, just make the thing work people. While Windows Vista clearly has incredibly awesome potential, I wish Microsoft wasn’t so greedy to release an operating system which clearly isn’t ready for prime time yet.

Tags: vista problems, xp, drivers