When MS introduced Vista I toyed with writing an industrial automation application on this "new and exciting" XP update. I immediately found out that hardware drivers, especially such drivers that you’d need for industrial applications, e.g., I/O interface card drivers, multi-serial card drivers, are NOT supported under Vista. Thus after playing with Vista for a while and familiarizing myself with it’s ‘advantages’ I dropped my plans of migrating to this platform. This was about 8 months ago. Meanwhile I’ve had only negative experiences with Vista…the place I work with uses an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) package called Sage Pro. It does not interact well with Vista. Database lookups take 2-10 times longer on Vista than on an equivalent XP machine.

After numerous security patches and incremental updates I’d always prefer XP to Vista. I know of no single compelling reason to migrate to Vista and besides making more money for Microsoft, I am at a loss of why it was introduced in the first place.

So far its been all downside….software i’ve written in the past needs to be updated to comply with Vista’s annoying specifications, etc. I’ve yet to encounter a single positive effect of Vista’s introduction.

Very annoying!

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