It's so strange that I came across this post. I absolutely HATE Vista! I've been trying to record my demo for 2 days now on my mates PC. It has so many incompatibility issues with some of the most popular software!
First I tried recording in Wavelab 5, it seemed to be fine and all looked normal until I had finished the recording and wanted to save! It just closed, no error messages no nothing it just closed. I then decided to do the recording in Cubase, had no problems until I wanted to work on the recording in Wavelab!
I have only been using Vista for 3 days, but in those 3 days I discovered that it is not user friendly, the layout of the start menu is really crap and to locate anything that was easily accessible in XP is near to impossible. Besides all this it devours system resources. Programs that I have already had issues with include... Daemon tools, Photoshop 7, Wavelab 5 & Nero. Reason and Cubase seem to run fine though.
I seriously am not impressed with Vista! Here's another problem that I came across, when trying to copy a CD with Media Player (Nero doesn't work unless you have a vista compatible version) it will do so if you are wanting to copy an mp3, but as soon as you try copy a standard 16bit 44.1kHz WAV file it won't do it!!! Yes you can download Vista compatible versions of Daemon Tools, Nero etc but it such an annoyance! I definitely won't be buying vista when I get my PC.
Granted, I haven't given much time or patience to learning Vista but you would think it would be pretty much the same as XP in terms of operation or user-friendly but it's not.
