Many people will read the title and think it's a mistake. "Shouldn't it be Vista?" Nope, I found this article on FOX 11 website and it said a lot about downgrading to XP, just because it's so hard to use. I thought it would be a step up for Windows because everyone knows that Apple is beating them by a landslide. I think that Windows Vista is not user-friendly. I have actually seen a lot of their recent commericials and I'm still not convinced. They have that parent control thing, but it actually tells them what time their child has been online and for how long. Nearly six months after it launched, gripes over what doesn't work with Vista continue, eclipsing positive buzz over the program's improved desktop search, graphics and security.
With Vista now shipping on most new computers, it's all but guaranteed to become the world's dominant PC operating system — eventually. For now, some users are either learning to live with workarounds or sticking with Vista's predecessor, Windows XP.
Pirillo is geekier than the average user. He runs a network of technology blogs called Lockergnome, and was one of several "Windows enthusiasts" Microsoft asked for Vista feedback early on.
Still, Vista tested even Pirillo's savvy. He fixed the hobbled printer and other problems by installing VMware, a program that lets him run XP within Vista. But when his trial copy expired, he decided the solution was too clunky — and too expensive.
He "upgraded," as he called it, back to XP.
Users' early complaints aren't a threat to Microsoft's dominance in operating systems. The various flavors of Windows run 93 percent of PCs worldwide, according to the research group IDC. Last fiscal year, Windows accounted for about a third of Microsoft's total revenue of $44.3 billion.
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