Im a happy XP user and i knew that Vista is causing problems i give Bill one year and his vista is full upgraded and fixed.
His plans for fixing and upgrading is to destroy compatability further. This is all to force his DRM on us. Plus, he'll only add to it, not taking stuff away. Patchwork, which means vista will be slow. In the end, XP now will be vista in a few years, only a few more features to keep us happy. I don't like how everyone's trying to force vista down our throats. I'm going to switch to Kolibri when it's more stable and has unicode support.
The lines are blurring between Apple computers and Windows-based computers, you know that, right? You should visit an Apple store and see for your self. You can even boot Windows on their systems now, so any program that doesn't have a OS X equivlent is taken care of..
This is true for 2 reasons. Mac is going von neuman (intel, amd, etc) and windows is adding rediculous features and security protocols that don't prevent problems, they prevent people from fixing them. And both have a DRM...
This is news to me and I am smiling, Never want to use Vista in any shape or form, have been told that Vista allows outside authorities to track your entire internet usage no matter what you have installed on your own PC.
This is BS. Your ISP does that, meaning no matter what you use, you're being tracked.
I bought a new laptop computer about a month ago. of course it had Vista on it, but I didn't want it, so I went through the trouble of buying XP separately just so I wouldn't have to deal with Vista. I would have used Linux, but as I learned last time I tried, it just doesn't have the driver support or software I need.
Windows emulator? =p
Both times I tried to use Linux I gave up pretty fast because it only seemed to be able to connect to my school network (ergo, the internet) about 4% of the time at random. Also I couldn't figure out how to use Japanese input, and having to install most of my programs by compiling them was a colossal pain in the neck.
The last straw was when my secondary hard drive crashed and LILO wouldn't let me boot Windows because it couldn't find the broken hard drive (Windows was entirely installed on the healthy hard drive).
I've been thinking of giving Linux another try to see if it's become any less lame in the last 3 years but alas, I don't really feel like re-partitioning my hard drive.
Could be reasons outside of linux. if your network was made for windows, linux may use some other protocols first and doesn't meet the network's minimum requirements. May even the network only wants windows only and fails sometimes and lets you in.
Windows sucks in general, but xp is the most patched up version at the moment. I had to accept vista when I got my laptop, but I don't think it really leaks so much any more. I prefer linux, but it is good to have one windows machine too so you can make everything work. I'm not good at making games work with linux! ^^;
Getting a mac some day would be outstanding!
Agreed, but i heard that a particular version of windows is pretty stable. It's not xp or vista, though... I forget what it was.
Vista eats too much RAM.
Perfomance difference between Vista and XP is quite evident on my computer.
Today, the law is that the sooner it gets on the market the better. It's ok if it's glitchy. It's not just windows, as a programmer i know all of the computer politics out there. They teach us not to worry about speed or other things, "since the compiler will do it the best way for you." As an assembly programmer, i know better.
TO ALL: The downgrade/upgrade may be a problem. Vista machines usually use 64 bit technology. XP is mostly 32bit programs. I havn't gotten around, yet, to finding out whether 64 bit programs can run on the 32 bit windows on a 64 processor (i doubt it). Therefor, it's a waste of money to buy the hardware, but at least you get a fancy new computer that sounds like it runs fast using XP. Really shows how horribly vista was made when the horribly made xp (yes, XP is bloated as well) when the the slower computer runs faster than the faster computer. I'd try looking around at some works in progress, even though they don't have the drivers. Best thing to do is to install both a version of windows and another OS. Windows is for the things you need drivers for like games and stuff, while you do all your email checking, posting, image editing, and other heavy work on the other, non-bloated OS.
