| mrstickball said: If you want other X360 games outside of AW, then get AW. Having said that, I've used Vista since launch, and it works great. I don't know what the haters are talking about: My copy works fine. |
Since launch? Ouch.
If you hadn't been using XP and were new to Windows, it probably wouldn't have been much of an issue, but for those who upgraded, the first issue was increased hardware (memory, CPU) requirements for what boiled down to slower performance.
Worse, was the initial lack of driver support, which meant many peripherals (printers, cameras, etc. ) simply wouldn't work with Vista until new drivers were released. So it was buy new peripherals or wait patiently. Not really acceptable.
SP1 fixed a lot of the speed/performance issues although Vista still requires more resources than XP. I find it completely usable and prefer the interface to XP, but knowing that everything would still run a bit faster with less overhead, is still a bit of a sore spot.
But facts are, XP support won't be around forever, and once essential development software and games start being coded only for Vista, it will be harder to hang on to XP.
So no, almost 2 years later, Vista does not really deserve the stigma that has always been attached to it. Unfortunately, the damage is already done, and despite the fixes/improvements, most people who have never used Vista still have a negative opinion of it.
