[gamefreak94]

Out of those 50 plus reasons, half are solved with the updates... Out of the games that dont work now after the vista updates is mainly ones due to driver issues or the game was poorly developed like mgs2, it doesn't work 100% on any os so expecting it to work on vista is pointless, and my fav game beyond good and evil works if you disable hardware transformation and lighting but then it requires a powerful cpu still issues like this can be solved with driver updates that is if nvidia see it as a driver issue since the game still works anyways...

Well in this long speech of yours, you have only managed to clear up one mistake of the games, and even though these specific ones have been, there must be several others that aren't. And even if patches are available, why should I tire out myself by sitting for hours and hours on the Internet searching for them

The other fundamental problems with Vista remain:

1) Memory hogging:
The whole software industry bears witness to that. If a game requires 1 GB RAM for XP, it will require 2 GB for Vista. Oh yeah, and in reply to the question

Oh really, then why is RAM requirements so excessive?

you said:

Because it's got a boatload of features on it.

There see, you admit it yourself. It takes up valuable RAM for a bloat load of features which people like me don't want and why do you have such an inkling on other people's opinions. Your justification for this was:

4GB is pretty standard

No it isn't! I have 1 GB and I can run Assassin's Creed just fine with XP! Can I do so with Vista? Absolutely not!

2) Hardware incompatiblity:
Admit it, even one of Vista's big fans post said:

With my old pc, it said straight away that the video card couldn't do aero and that I should consider a RAM upgrade.

There you have it! The video card was from 2003, only 5 years ago and Vista is 3 years old now, perfect example of poor hardware compatibility.

3) Software incompatibility: Like I said before, things work just fine work XP, can't be bothered to search for patches for a bloat load of features that I don't want.

These flaws are enough for me to make me never wanna touch Vista for the time being, the load of ****ing features it offers like Aero-glass and semi-transparent windows and floating tool-bars aren't worth this much hassle. The final choice however is yours, which reminds me:

Why the **** do you have to be so childish to people who have different views to yourself? Are you that egotistical that no one elses view matters?

My point exactly! I don't think this description of your attributes leaves anything to chance, so I'll end my post here.............