My experiments with Windows Vista - experience too.

I Already ready blogged about the nightmare os called 'Vista'. i bought a AMD turion Compaq v3000 series laptop a few months back. i liked every feature of it, other than its operating system - Windows Vista Home Basic. According to them this particular series is designed for vista..ok fine...

but it has only 512 MB Ram, and vista hanged many times in the very first day itself. my display is getting blank if i click in to some messageboxes( * MAD * ).

Finally i decided to switch back to pretty old windows XP. and i managed to get a XP CD, and installed it..then only i came to know that many of its devices are not detected ( sound, Wireless LAN, Ethernet, Card Reader, Display etc..). and its display looked weird and scratchy. i rushed in to HP's web site and searched for XP drivers.. but according to them, this laptop is specially made for windows vista, and the XP drivers are not available, and they are not responsible for any damages caused by our experiments with any other drivers and in that case the warranty will be expire...

again i searched in many other popular forums, and driver repositories, but i got some partial or not soooo sure replies. thus i ended up with my hopeless search for XP drivers..and i restored Vista( what else?) .. then vista started its magics again in my laptops, i was struggled with FTP uploads, Yahoo messenger ( yahoo messenger is not supporting windows Vista, FYI, if it is working fine in your machine, praise the lord, for his miracle), i was frustrated and hopeless. then i decided to upgrade my RAM in to 1 GB, i got a little relief for the copying exercises, but all other things were pretty bad as earlier.

and in the last barcamp event only i met sobhan, he also having the same model, and he managed to get the drivers from somewhere.. thanks god..you saved my soul.. and he was so kind to share those drivers with me..and now i'm much happy with XP and Suse Linux( Using VMWare ). - oh one more thing to add on, in vista they are not supporting the VMWare workstation, and if you tweak and install it once, vista will take additional 10 more minutes to start up after showing some dump and ugly blank screens.

If anybody wants XP drivers for their Compaq v3000 series laptops, please do contact me.

Vista was a total failure. they invested their time and money for inventing an ugly operating system. i would like to call MS UOS - Microsoft Ugliest Operating System ( as MS DOS - Microsoft Dirty Operating System). i'm seeing such a total dump stiff after the release of Windows ME.

Uderline : Microsoft implemented a 'Kill Switch' for Windows Vista, which cease hobbling Windows Vista installations that fail the company's validation processes. by implementing of such a mechanism they are expecting that the entire world will switch in to the genuine version of windows vista.

XP will be discontinued soon, probably by Jan 2008.

In closing i will say this Vista might become a good OS after 2-3 service packs but until then stay away from it. Stick with XP or switch to Linux.