Xander
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Athenian... you should have said...
Vista is fine. Saying it's bloated is like complaining that you don't get 35mpg with your foot welded to the mat in a car. Just turn off select features and it runs fine.
Vista IS marginally slower than XP but then again how much more does it do? Try fixing a PC with a boot problem in XP and suddenly you're plunged into DOS... not nice. Vista, put in the disk and run the boot repair. Works two out of three times for me and that's saying something.
As for Windows 7, it IS Vista. Sure it's an upgrade but there again you don't seriously expect MS to give it away when it's such an upgrade it alters half the core systems?
Another point, I wonder how many on this thread who are trying to weigh up XP and Vista are still stuck in 32bit land. Personally I had 64bit XP, 64bit Vista and I'm now on 64bit Windows 7 but it seems like most people still think that 64bit is for professionals or people with powerful computers... it's just daft.
XP<Vista<Win7. It's called progress. If you're still using XP then how old are your security measures? New antivirus? That's nice, you've still got back doors which people have had a looong time to discover.
Oh and Win7 vs XP. Win7 is faster, more secure, prettier, does DX10 and DX11 soon I think... the only thing you lose is needing a computer made this century and needing to get rid of your 32bit security blanket.
Edit - I should point out that I'm no fan of MS. I've had problems with every OS they've ever made. But then again I've tried Linux *shudders* and Macs just seem too proprietary for my tinkering tastes. I am currently running a desktop with Win7 and a laptop with Vista. Thus far the Vista laptop has been the most reliable runner of any computer I've used, bar none.
Vista is fine. Saying it's bloated is like complaining that you don't get 35mpg with your foot welded to the mat in a car. Just turn off select features and it runs fine.
Vista IS marginally slower than XP but then again how much more does it do? Try fixing a PC with a boot problem in XP and suddenly you're plunged into DOS... not nice. Vista, put in the disk and run the boot repair. Works two out of three times for me and that's saying something.
As for Windows 7, it IS Vista. Sure it's an upgrade but there again you don't seriously expect MS to give it away when it's such an upgrade it alters half the core systems?
Another point, I wonder how many on this thread who are trying to weigh up XP and Vista are still stuck in 32bit land. Personally I had 64bit XP, 64bit Vista and I'm now on 64bit Windows 7 but it seems like most people still think that 64bit is for professionals or people with powerful computers... it's just daft.
XP<Vista<Win7. It's called progress. If you're still using XP then how old are your security measures? New antivirus? That's nice, you've still got back doors which people have had a looong time to discover.
Oh and Win7 vs XP. Win7 is faster, more secure, prettier, does DX10 and DX11 soon I think... the only thing you lose is needing a computer made this century and needing to get rid of your 32bit security blanket.
Edit - I should point out that I'm no fan of MS. I've had problems with every OS they've ever made. But then again I've tried Linux *shudders* and Macs just seem too proprietary for my tinkering tastes. I am currently running a desktop with Win7 and a laptop with Vista. Thus far the Vista laptop has been the most reliable runner of any computer I've used, bar none.