My biggest issue with Vista are network transfers, this alone ****es me off to no end. In my household network shares are used frequently. My vista box transfers at about 1.3 to 2 MB/sec where as the XP machines can transfer about four times that rate.

Vista released a patch but it did not increase network transfer speeds, it only stopped the occasional hanging I was experiencing.

I continue to use Vista because I love the interface, I also like having DirectX 10, when Vista came out DX10 was only available on Vista, it is now available for XP.

Why do I continue to use Vista? Because I have 200+ GB of data and NOWHERE to back it up ATM, soon as I have access to a storage device capable of a complete back up XP3 is going on this baby.

Here I’ll give you my personal critique of Vista

OS Performance (Overall) 6.4 out of 10

Application Compatibility: 8 out of 10

Local Area Network Performance: 2 out of 10

Internet Performance: 8 out of 10

Security: 6 out of 10

Ease of use: 9 out of 10

Innovation: 6 out of 10

Customization/Modding: 7 out of 10

Memory/Resource Management: 4 out of 10

Eyecandy: 8 out of 10

My machines specs:

3.33 Ghz

2024 MB RAM

ATI Radeon 1550 (256 MB-PCI Express 16X)

SATA