Re:FFS (Score 1)

Slashdot continues to moan because the average commenter has neither ran the beta or used Vista for longer than 5 minutes. Its more fun to bitch about Microsoft than to actually use the product.

Their skepticism is warranted regardless. Windows 7 is a continuation of the Vista code base, and is likely to inherit its more fundamental faults.

I've never had a lick of trouble running Vista. Nor have I had a lick of trouble in the two weeks I've been running this beta. But then I made sure to put it on a modern PC built with Vista in mind, not my grandfather's Packard-Bell 486 with 4 meg of ram.

And comments like this one are just as annoying. What does this kind of anectodal evidence help?

There are a lot of documented issues, most notably with Vista's network stack perfomance. Which in turn required a throttling hack during media playback, to avoid playback degradation. Or also the fact that Vista's kernel can only handles IRQs on CPU 0, which compounds the above problems on "modern PC built with Vista in mind", where they could be avoided. The list goes on, all fundamental design problems, not superficial ones like the awkward UI.

So you haven't noticed any of this. Congratulations, thanks for letting us know!