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Windows XP to live on

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I am using both Vista and XP. Vista is not just about the new skin. Most of the enhancement is deep into the architectural and kernel. Most user just cannot see it. Gaming is still running faster and smoother on XP. Multitasking and rendering is much faster on Vista, with dual core.
 
Good lord, someone who ACTUALLY POINTED OUT the honest truth about Vista!

Hats off to Microsoft for doing something friendly and amping up the support cycle, but let's face it, XP has hit its peak and is slowly dying from here on. Is it worth bleating about how Microsoft are horrible and it's all Bill Gates' fault (even though he has nothing to do with the major decisions) when in reality, it'd be better to invest in the new OS and run a dualboot setup?

Start early with the new setup and you might just be able to work all the kinks out of it early on in the piece, rather than just wondering when some russian dude is gonna manually manipulate DX10 out of Vista into an installable package for XP.
 
I have to say, I'm torn here. I just recently started tri booting with a trial of Vista Ultimate, and it's performance for day to day tasks is better than XP imo. It's seems to load apps faster, and responds to commands very quickly(I should add that I disable System Restore, Windows Search, the security pop-ups that i forgot the name of, and the feature that caches small bits of oft used programs in memory that I also forget the name of. lol.) But XP still seems to have the advantage in resource hungry apps. I can see myself using XP for video related stuff and Vista for all else for some time to come.
 
Happy 666 posts Wile E ;)

I honestly think Vista will do pretty good, and the constant Vista Sucks tripe that's been flying around here constantly should stop. Most of the anti-Vista sentiment comes from people who don't run it, and indeed lots of people migrated from starting on a 9x platform straight to Windows XP.

I've had almost every MS OS that's existed, bar the server end stuff and perhaps NT 3.51 PPC. Yes, I used Windows 1.0. From past experience, MS usually updates something, there's uproar that it's unrequired and it's poop, then it turns commonplace. The cycle repeats.
 
Carcenomy said:
Most of the anti-Vista sentiment comes from people who don't run it, and indeed lots of people migrated from starting on a 9x platform straight to Windows XP.
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No, actually many of us have tried it. Its a pile of crap.

Not only that, but its timing is terrible. Many people were begging and pleading for them to finally put *something* out, and its right after all the IT guys finally got their IT budgets approved to upgrade from the crap windows 98 machines that are dieing left and right, with standardized windows XP dell boxes.

XP around here, is going to stay for another 5-8 years.

we CANT and ARENT going to upgrade to vista on any of our machines.. and we're of 50 some factorys with 500+ pc's.

You make your assumptions from a consumer view. Microsoft makes their decisions from a market view. They screwed this one up.

Then again, so did intel. These are all P4 pc's, just a wee too late to be core duos.
 
Dippyskoodlez said:
No, actually many of us have tried it. Its a pile of crap.
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Out of the box, I agree. But it can be trimmed fairly well already, and the ability to strip it is only gonna get better. Well, speaking purely from a power using consumer's standpoint. I completely agree on your corporate standpoint.
 
Dippyskoodlez said:
No, actually many of us have tried it. Its a pile of crap.
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I actually run the final version on my laptop, and have to completely disagree with that statement. If you have actually used the OS for any length of time you wouldn't be saying it is a pile of crap, unless of course you are just trolling for arguments, which isn't unlikely for you.
 
I'm getting really tired of this thread. I've gotten three reported posts, handed out infractions, and tried to tell everyone to remain polite. If I have to revisit this thread again, it's going to be closed. ;)
 
Thermopylae_480 said:
I'm getting really tired of this thread. I've gotten three reported posts, handed out infractions, and tried to tell everyone to remain polite. If I have to revisit this thread again, it's going to be closed. ;)
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lock it down!, yes its tiring and like an EXACT rerun of the xp sucks, 98 4eva ones years ago
 
Grings said:
lock it down!, yes its tiring and like an EXACT rerun of the xp sucks, 98 4eva ones years ago
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That is pretty much how every Vista news article ends up here anymore.
 
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