My IT group has not deployed a single Vista machine in our company (around 800 desktop machines) and we refuse to support it. XP pro is still our OS of choice in the office.

Vista offered no incentive for us to switch. There is no really useful new functionality. And it was different enough that you could spend a great deal of time figuing out how to make it do what you already knew how to do in XP.

I won't have it at home either. Countless devices that run fine in XP have issues in Vista. I have HP deskjet printers that I can't make print the proper colors on Vista but print fine from the same app in XP. Drivers on my wireless network cards, video card, ... seems like everything new I put on it, cause me problems. And again... other than a new interface that I can do without, it doesn't give me anything new.

Vista is the Windows ME of today.... only they spent a whole boatload more money on Vista and it's promotion.

Same here. My IT group supports about 2800-3000 pcs and macs. As IT we have decided to ignore Vista. All of us actually decided not to even learn Vista, to insure that we do not provide any support for Vista on the side. We know just enough to take the data out and kill it properly.

My response to a request of maintenance for Vista users is always : "Find someone who does it, or better yet switch back to XP". I ain't supporting it.

You know, that any IT, normally, is in constant learning mode. This wasn't happening with Vista. As you have noted, and I have observed, there is no benefit to learning Vista. All one learns is a weird way of doing the same, as in Vista, you're only dealing with stupid GUI, that is all.

At first, when Vista came out as beta, we test-drove it and were stunned. We though that the corpies will decide to actually upgrade to this crap, and we all will become simply an attachment to Microsoft. All the corpies were running around with happy faces, thinking that flashy look alone is going to make things better. It is no different than what a man thinks when a busty stranger walks by. Exciting, but is she really, really better or even comparable to your wife?

So, that is why we decided to fight. We have killed every instance of Vista that ever appeared in office, and that includes the one that came with our CEO laptop.

But, we have underestimated our corpies. They have listened to us and agreed that since the mechanics of it isn't better at all, since it has nothing new, nothing that we don't already have, then there is no ROI.

We have also intensively promoted non-Microsoft alternatives, such as Firefox to users.

These efforts payed off. I don't know if a collective action of IT personnel around the world made any difference, but we have heard of others doing the same, boycotting Vista.

Whether it was or wasn't the main reason for Vista's failure, it is evident that there is a possibility to affect big things, when we act in denial or in support.

It is a better world out there, now that Vista is dead.

Graphics wise I love Vista... however I keep my XP PC right beside me also for those lovely programs that literally REFUSE to run on Vista even if you try to force Vista to run it on XP compatibility mode. Vista is very good for some new gaming and entertainment PCs... but you should only expect it to be able to use new software... any classic games or "older" software usually doesn't have a prayer of running on Vista.

Vista as costing me a fortune, I had to dump most of my filters or change the things I wanted to do with Paint Shop Pro because my filters did not work! So I said a well deserved &%!!*^5!! to Blister and reverted to XP.