By now its clear that Windows Vista isn’t going to win over users.  Even if they are using it there will always be a divide between Microsoft and users.  The company was determined to kill XP, the best operating system the company ever made.  Now that’s it’s gone we need to look to the future.

At a wedding the bride is supposed to have something old, something borrowed, something new and something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe.  All of that for good luck.  Vista is just old(er) operating systems with a shiny new face on it.

This doesn’t necessarily affect all Vista users and it seems primarily targeted at users of Asus laptops.  However, it may expand beyond that but I cannot be certain.  If this problem has cropped up on your Asus laptop here’s a relatively easy fix for it.

Vista sucks, it doesn’t suck, wait a minute, it does.  This is a never ending cycle and we may never come to an agreement.  There will always be someone who doesn’t like it and there will always be someone who does.

Vista has received a less than lukewarm reception by the masses.  One would think that Intel would adopt Microsoft’s latest operating system for its own operations.  This has not happened and is likely to never happen.

If you have been disappointed with Vista’s performance on your brand new dual or quad-core PC then this may help.  The default settings for Vista have it boot using just one processor core.  Using both or all four cores may help speed things along.

Dell is listening to its customers and will continue to sell Windows XP for a few more days.  To this point Microsoft has said little about the demand for XP.  The company may now have no choice but to continue Windows XP and Vista side by side for a while.

Microsoft is wishing that XP would just die and consumers would embrace Vista.  This has not happened and the company is discontinuing Vista come the end of this month.  Or is it?

Would you believe that Windows Vista may now be as reliable as XP was or still is?  I didn’t think so.  My experience with Vista has been one of reliability when preinstalled by an OEM but this is not the majority consensus.

Either love or hate UAC, it’s a part of Vista and we all have to live with it.  Some users get so annoyed with it that they turn it off and others just leave it on.  UAC is enabled by default in Vista but a minority of users (myself included) are so put out with it that we turn it off.

Some would argue that Vista is the downgrade and XP is the operating system to stick with.  Whatever you may believe doesn’t matter because Dell is now charging $50 extra if you want Windows XP.

Windows Vista has its share of compatibility problems, but when a senior Microsoft employee is dispatched to a customer to fix a driver issue, things are bad.  The average consumer will never get this level of help but one Charles Walling did get it.

Vista has a problem.  Not a problem related to software or compatibility but a problem with developers.  Developers do not like Vista and while this may change in the future it is not the current preference.  Microsoft could have listened to consumers and businesses but instead decided to push Vista and it has pushed too hard.

All of us should be aware by now that the last day to get the OEM XP option is approaching fast, just two weeks remain.  As a result, manufacturers that offered free XP downgrade options are starting to cancel that option and Dell is one of them.

Vista has problems with being compatible with older software and drivers, but Microsoft may have a new weapon in its arsenal to combat that.  It recently acquired Kidaro Technologies, a desktop-virtualization software vendor which could allow the company to produce virtualization for Vista that would eliminate some or all compatibility issues.