30 Day Trial (Score 1)

I tried Vista Ultimate as a 30 day trial on a separate partition. I didn't do much research or anything driver related, I just ran the compatibility test and installed it. The only thing that didn't work properly was my sound... poor generic MS written driver that lacked 5.1 surround sound anything and no support from manufacturer. After about 5 days of use, well, the USB ports on my motherboard failed. I'm sure it wasn't a Vista caused problem but maybe it was. After booting up my XP partition and the USB ports still not working, I went out and got a new mobo for $45. I could have bought a PCI USB hub but the mobo was only an extra $15. Of course, after swapping mobos NEITHER of my windows installations worked. After reinstalling everything and diving into Vista for my full 30 day trial, I came to the conclusion that Vista is a piece of crap and I am soooo glad I didn't pay anything for it. There is not a single feature in there that a normal computer user would find more useful than in XP. All the average user would have to talk about is the fancy GUI, they couldn't tell you anything else special about it. My suggestion: Don't pay for Vista unless you get it when you buy a new computer.