Shoutbox

RAM is meant to be USED for christ's sake, when will people learn that? of course your operating system is going to use whatever memory is available. That's what makes your whole computer as efficient as possible. Windows 95 used 4MB of RAM, Windows 98 8-16MB, Windows 2000 about 64MB, Windows XP could very well use 256MB and Vista is generally happy with 1GB. What is the problem there? New systems need more power and more resources for tons of reasons. Some programs look cooler and offer more features in Vista than they did in Win2000 and than they previously did in Win98? guess what, that's thank to Windows using more of what your computer has to offer.

Boot time is extremely fast on my two systems, probably faster than XP so I don't see what's your problem there. As for List View, I'm not sure what you're talking about either, as with any past version of Windows I can remember, you can ask Windows to use whatever you want by default in Folder Options. Vista will simply try to displauy your files the best way possible it can think of, it won't always succeed but that's a matter of personal taste.

As far as the new start menu and visual styles are concerned, it's alsto a matter of personal taste so that can't be considered flaws either (and you can change all of that in the options as well anyway). In any case, I don't see how they could be considered "annoying". You either like them and keep them, or you don't.

And last but not least: program compatibility. That's not Microsoft's fault, they already work their ass off to make sure many half-baked programs continue to work on their new systems. If one of your programs doesn't work in Vista and worked on XP, email the developers and ask them to stop watching porn all day long and fix stuff that needs to be fixed in their buggy program. About any well done program that was developed for Windows 2000 will work flawlessly in Windows Vista.