It really doesn't. I know any number of IT professionals who say it's debatable whether it's slightly better or slightly worse than Windows ME. It might be tolerable for a home user who happens to have a setup it likes ( but that could be said about ME too ) but for a serious OS for business users, it's really even more of a horrible mess than was suspected.
I know it doesnt, the it dept i work in are terrified of vista because when we tried a test run on one node. it caused the following problems:
- 2 machines that are BRAND new and 'vista capable' just bluescreened on first boot then crashed unrecoverably.
- had a few problems with network
- a couple of wireless network cards caused some probs
- some vital in-house software incompatable and wont run
- IE7 incompatibl with some of the document systems on the internal intranet.(IE6 / Firefox ok)
- 1 graphics card wouldnt work.
This was a test on a range of 10 brand new laptops and desktops.
Not very re-assuring was it. I think were staying with XP till the sun goes down.
If things dont improve quickly its going to be worse than the so-called millenium bug ever was :)
Anyway, i dont want to start another OS war that wasnt my intention (its all been said before)
After all, its each to their own. I still think M$ were cheeky gits tho :)