Originally Posted by
husker267
Downgrade all the way. I'm a small business IT consultant and picked up a lenovo laptop with Vista and really tried to learn it and like it. But the extra infuriating "security" measures built into this OS and it's lack of stability (Explorer began to frequently crash after 2 months - with only MS office loaded) I figured that if I have to take to time to reload, I might as well load XP. Runs faster and hasn't crashed since.
I'm praying Windows 7 is more like XP than Vista. And my clients running proprietary apps would be thankful as well.
I've been running Vista since it was in beta and I can't say that I've had the same experience. Of course early on there were a lot driver problems but most newer peripherals come with Vista drivers now.
The first thing I do when I install Vista is to turn off UAC. I find it annoying but I can see how it might help inexperienced users but I know what I'm doing and I can't stand it.
Windows 7 is more like Vista than XP. I've been playing around with it in a VM for a about a month now. A couple of colleagues that run it on their machines directly have said that it runs faster than Vista though.