Vista is one of the best OS ever. I really like it. Vista and Ubuntu are my favorite OSs (win98 too). Vista are very stable (they have some problems though) and user friendly. MMF2 works perfectly on my vista system, TGF1 too but i haven't tried MMF1. So I don't really know...
Vista is great. Even with its problems. I really like it. All of my games play perfectly and it's very fast. For a pc with old hardware Ubuntu Linux is perfect. Check it out, it worths a lot and it's free. 9)
Its crap - False
The best thing over - False
It uses to much ram - True
Manages ram better than xp - Eh.. not exactly.
Only the 64bit version is good - Never tried 32bit so I wouldn't know.
All and all, Vista is not a bad operating system, people just need to wait for the first service pack to come out in around a year or so. It's that simple.
PS: And just so people know my angle on the whole subject. I am not Pro or Con Vista, I am just defending it against all the bullsh*t rumors because it is a decent operating system, it just lacks the maturity that took XP years to grow in to.
It's crashed on me a few times too. XP hasn't (on this machine). Which, despite the crippling security holes, is a fairly stable system.
I just wish Microsoft would finally enable (easily) USB/Firewire drives for installation. I'd stick it on a spare 60gb external and just boot up in it for whatever reason. They could learn from Apple, I've got a cut down OSX on a partition of an iPod HDD. Plug it in, hold down ESC on boot and select it. That'd just be brilliant for Vista.
I really don't know how people are managing to crash Vista though, I mean I've never crashed Vista, and only crashed XP one time (long time ago). Both operating systems are stable in my experience.