Why is Vista better than XP?

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Hi all,

I read all your posts and I couldn’t resist typing something along. I do agree with most pro’s about XP, I use to love XP, still love it, but since moving to Vista Ultimate 32 Bit, well…
It has sometimes it’s problems, but lets not forget the crap we all had with XP when 1st came out, OMFG!! Now, so far I find Vista Ultimate 32 bit, a more stable OS vs XP Pro that I used for so many years and don’t forget that most problems with OS’s are caused by the cheap drivers, companies that do not want to spend a penny more and write stable drivers, many programmers know this . And how in earth is can everyone expect Microsoft or other OS vendors to release a OS that works 100% from the 1st day??? People with those expectations are either dumb or do not know how OS’s work, everything is so complex and suiting every ones needs takes time, learn from Windows XP’s past and GET OVER IT!! Microsoft creates only 50% of a OS and the end user the other 50%. So instead of moaning get testing and lets make a great OS out of Vista!!

Best regards to all of you!!

PS. Don’t even start me on antivirus companies…IE Symantec

I have vista home premium and since the sp1 update i find my labtop to be more stable than before and now i consider it much better than xp in a vast number of ways. Also, i think usability was better than xp even before sp1 (service pack one). I wish it came with microsoft office 2008 though. I hate this piece of crap “microsoft works.” Thats like saying,”this works but its not good enough.” Hence the name Microsoft “WORKS.”

i am using vista on my new laptop, i can’t say i like it.
it doesn’t offer me any thing new or better by far. i don’t really care the new look. i turn it off since the first day i got it.

well.. it fast, but that because i invest “my” money on the vdo card and 4gig of ram.

i would love to use a hight performent OS which take less of my hd space and eat less ram than vista. i don’t think microsoft can do that!

i am using 4gig of vista and xp, i can say that vista doesn’t make me feel any difference. well..may vista search tool is handy and fast!
anyway compare to the money i paid for vista, and what it is offering, i should just stick to xp.

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I’m using Ubuntu and xp only for some programs that i really need and can’t find one for Linux, btw Linux and most aplications for Linux are open source, therefore free and soo much better in terms of performance, graphics, has way better effects than Vista when using compiz. Linux has a lot advantages over windows and microsoft only cares to sell their products by creating a pretty good UI, but Vistas UI is very similar to openSUSE UI. If you’re interested in this search google and u’ll find just how good is Linux and how much Windows sucks

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Adi T u’r right but ubuntu worked so much better than any Windows from 1st day and that problems only happen to windows cause they only care of selling their products by adding lots of useless functions and somewhat better gui and they don’t give a f*** on performance or security. Windows also can ruin hardware, which is a very small chance for this to happen by using Linux. Btw Linux does not need antivirus, firewall or defragmenter and the drivers are istalled automatically so if u’r doing a fresh install of OS u don’t waste a lot of time by installing all those. Plus XP’s average time from the direct connection moment till infesting with viruses without antivirus and firewall is 16 minutes. Linux’s average time from the direct connection moment till infesting with viruses without antivirus or firewall is… never

yea vista does have some technicial difficulties and more than often Windows explorer stops responding. But I have vista on my laptop and after using vista for like 1 whole year. and during the summer, when I came back to school I got on an XP computer and found out that windows movie maker is a lot worse in vista it has much more mouse shortcuts than in XP also the more you use vista the more comfortable it gets. I also like the search just type a program and it found it its really comfortable. cant imagine swithcing back to XP

I used Vista on a new PC (quad 2.4, 4gb ram, sli config) for about 3 months and have gone back to XP. Vista has a load of nice features and I wish it was stable, but after several rebuilds, latest drivers, patches etc Vista has proven itself to be horribly unstable; plus I couldn’t live with all that disk thrashing (even after disabling prefetch and search indexing etc). XP might lack a few bells and whistles but at least my PC crashes less now.

i got vista with my new pc, as the old one with xp mysteriously fried all the memory and continued to do so with the new ones – i decided it was time to give that old buddy a rest. as for ms politics, i didnt have other choice but to take vista with new laptop, no xp choice. with my previous experience with vista, i was expecting catastrophe, because i had very well tuned and customized xp before, that worked like charm. vista came with sp1, still, there were quite many things to adjust out of the box, start menu behaving incorrectly, autologon problems, system locking etc., but it all had its solution, i just needed to google it. besides, the efficiency is worse, xp was like a rocket machine on five yrs. old laptop, now vista on this new hurricane cpu seems to be bit slower. those were for negatives … from now on, i will continue for why i hadnt wiped it out yet. it is eye candy and i like eye candies, 3d flip is at least small replacement for compiz in ubuntu and system is far more polished than xp, icons dpi no more faulty. modem connection is working better now, in xp it was lagging sometimes, now its much better. so far every hardware worked out of the box – for my phone or tablet i had to install not very stable drivers in xp, now it all works like charm in vista. i would say it is most user friendly system that came out of microsoft, it just has some bugs that need to be removed. nice contacts and movie maker applications, as well as media center. vista got more robust, more secured, what makes it more complicated, but after some moments spent removing these obstacles, it shines. i dont want to move back to xp anymore.
but if my old laptop was still working, i couldnt find reason why to move to vista either. xp is very good system and most of the people just dont need to upgrade from something that is working well.
as for the linux systems, i always had one ubuntu partition after windoze partition and i must say that ubuntu has made a great progress, i tried some other distros but i found ubuntu superior. compiz was making miracles with my old intel extreme graphics 2 and the system was very nice. i think after a few years, ubuntu will become very solid and supported platform and will make microsoft worried
as for mac os x … i had the pleasure and had almost broken mouse after half an hour. it couldnt even maximize window correctly, dock got frozen, window rendering got buggy, i missed many functions i got used to. say – its a matter of habit – i had only a little time to unleash its hidden “faulty” potential. i cant get the apple logics, they hype it sooo much that, create enormous hype cloud over i-everything, but my experience so far – mac os x was disfunctional, confusing and crippled, compared to both xp and ubuntu. iphone is as well disfunctional, heavy, confusing and crippled compared to almost every wm-based smartphone alternative out there. here, i would agree with someone above writing apple users are less tech savvyy, they simply dont need to know many things as apple isnt providing greater functionality, so they dont bother. most of them need to be in, need just to show that they are i-…..
but then once you come with win/lin laptop, take out your smartphone, sync it over bluetooth, connect with it to net, down needed conference docs, navigate your car right to the meeting with ease and they just stand with their eyes wide open – omg! you must be some tech geek or what, how could you do that?? for mac users, when it comes to action, win/lin user is god, but when it comes to big talking, we are just a cheap loosers

Windows 7 is more stable than Vista. No Joke.

i can most definatky and with most will to move back to XP without a second thought or action.

id like to say that i think vista is better then xp in some aspects for one vista works better on my computer then xp for some reason due to the fact my computer started out with a xp os. but in all maybe there needs to be more OS out there then what we have now linux is to complicated same with mac dont really like either nor for that matter do i like microsoft but its the easiest to use

Hi, i worked seven years with win XP professional to my best satisfaction, because windows XP is a fine operating system.

If currently your computer does not contain 2 gigs of RAM (preferably 3 for a 32 bit version, but XP supports no more then 2 gigs of RAM), and also does not have a newer CPU on board like a Dual Core( a P4 is still a very decent CPU, owever compared to a dual core at an also 3 Ghz clockspeed the P4 sadly stays behind) and also does not have a graphical card with minimally 128MB (256 MB are preferable 512 MB are better), then except if you plan to purchase a new computer stay with XP it will be supported until 2014 by Microsoft.

Vista is just an excellent system its a really very well over thought OS including some eyecandy, but when you do have a decent CPU like my own E8200 Dual Core at 2.66Ghz, 3 gigs of RAM and a Nvidia 8800GT then Vista works a lot faster then XP ever did to me its also very stable, but i got used to stability after my often crashing win 98SE system, because XP never crashed in seven years talking 10-15 hours a day running intensive software and the latest games, no problem at all.

There is no way i would want to go back to XP, but for people whom are thinking to buy a new system (a Vista ready system can be had for 40o euros even less, but spend 200 euros more and you look at a high end system instead of a cheap, eventually disappointing, step in model).

Anyway like i said if you were thinking to get a new computer make sure it has atleast a Dual Core on board preferably a quadcore so my preference is Intel and my favorite quadcore is the i7 that's a jewel of current technology and no i am not that fond of AMD's CPU's, however these CPU are by far not to call bad and they are a lot cheaper offering almost the same prestations compared to an intel on the same clockspeed.

Its not that you can say that a dual core at 3 Ghz is to compare with 2 CPU at 3 Ghz no you look at an about 80% improvement and from a dual core to a wuadcore you look at 100% improvement compared to the dual core.
Dont forget to use the readyboost option in Vista this is not extra RAM this is extra cache for your harddrive to acces a lot faster and it does speed up your computer, especially when you only have 1 gig of RAM.

When you buy a new system these days you get a voucher to upgrade to windows 7 that OS is based on Vista and its said that windows 7 is like Vista when it would be really ready, but that's exaggerated, because service pack 1 and 2 for Vista are present and together with those SP's AND decent hardware you have an excellent system ready for the future.
Win 7 is not a resource eater and can do with a lot less still its the best OS what almost available for the public now.
Its not possible to upgrade from XP to windows 7, but from Vista to win 7 is possible.

Anyway lots of people who complained first about Vista now say they dont want to work without it anymore and i can only say they are right, but to get an idea you really need to spend some time behind a vista computer until you might feel to upgrade to win 7 with your free voucher.

Remember people the only reason why Vista didn't run properly is because its resource hungry so when the resources are simply not present you get a Vista system what gets bothered by hiccups, but get the 2 gigs of RAM minimally get the videocard 256 Mb minimally(to get the aero eyecandy) and a Dual Core minimally and you will love working with Vista.
So far thanks for reading my lengthy reply.

Best regards, Freek. ps dont let yourself influence by bad experienced from others better be your own judge.

Wow. Apple FanBoy much?