A friend of mine bought a new computer about two months ago. It had vista on it, and gee wizz, it sure wasnt as user-friendly as either of us had hoped.
For starters, he was going to copy all his files from his old computer he wanted to keep to his new computer via a router. Even though the router had DHCP activated and Vista aquired the IP number, he still had to call me and spend about 45 minutes on the phone before we had figured out how to work it.
After that, he installed his favourite game, Battlefield 2. The installation went fine, but when he started the game it displayed the EA logo and then immediatly exited to windows again. No error message or anything.
When I went over to see if I could help him I found Vista to be very hard to understand at times. Often messages like "An unexpected event is about to take place which requires your attention. Would you like more information?" (or something to that effect, don´t remember the exact words) appeared leaving us both confused.
In the end, after having no luck in getting BF2 to run, and a bunch of other problems, he wiped vista and installed XP.
I´m staying far away from vista as long as I can, and have even started thinking about getting a Mac.
