Why is Vista better than XP?

Vista is MUCH better than XP. It runs faster, uses my jump drive as RAM, is prettier, does more, is much more secure, is finally off of DOS, and has alot of sheer power under the hood that you don’t get to see. Kind of the difference between a mustang and a ferrari. The mustang is nice, and doesn’t look much worse than the ferrari, but the feeling you get from the ferrari is infinitely better.

Vista is a memory hog…42% of DDR2 2GB ram! “doing nothing” What a joke. I would rather use my power for games. Not the vista eye candy windows.

What I would really like to know about Vista is what changed under the hood? The fancy interface is nice but is it just a new “skin” on top of XP or has the underlying program actually been changed?

Vista is full of bugs and not worth your time until there is a stable build. Some people run 98 for performance over xp so why would you want an os that freezes, isn’t compatible with some software and is all together unreasonable? Screw that. Microsoft is just trying to be the capitalist pigs they are.

Im sorry but after looking at the running specs for a mac and that for a vista pc….Id rather go vista. Simply put, gaming. Sure configuring games on a vista might be a …bit..of a pain, but on macs…you cant even get them to run! Sure I could bootcamp an intel mac with winxp but why? Why not just use one OS that does both graphics/biz apps AND does games in one shot?

Ideally a computer should be able to handle everything.

And dont tell me that gaming is only a small percentage of the user base…go to any best buy, Frys, or other software store…games are usually 2/3 of their stock.

JJ, Vista does use a lot of ram all the time, but it does it on purpose. I’m not an expert, but I read it was done because linux showed that ram is faster/more effective being used then released for the next command. I’m not completely sold on this, but at least we know its done on purpose.

Everyone knows, I you’re going to do video editing you need to do it on a mac.

I trialled Vista for a month when a trial version came installed on my PC. Vista ‘looks’ better than Vista but apart from that I couldn’t really understand how Microsoft could justify the price tag attached to it. It basically looks like an upgraded version of XP. The sidebar got turned off straight away. And after a week the lack of an ‘Up’ button when navigating was driving me insane (the bread crumb just wasn’t sinking in). Also nagging the user every time they start a program and sending the screen black. What were they smoking when they thought that was a good idea?!

I liked Media Player 11, the Aero effects, and even the way the program list stays compact inside the start menu (as opposed to spreading out across the screen) but these minor upgrades just werent enough to convince me I should be forking out hundreds of dollars for the privilege.

So back to XP for me.

I too went and tried Vista out for a month, and after using it for a month I decided not to buy it and go back to good old Windows XP. It might not be as fancy, but I use my computer for a lot of gaming and when it comes down to it, EVERY game I own runs slower on Vista. It’s few upgrades were not nearly enough for me to upgrade my PC to it, maybe in a few years when they get all of the bugs worked out…

yea well i had to for 2 weeks on my computer and said ill wait till i buy a new one…
i dont understand microsoft says my pc can handle it,i paid enough yet it froze in every thing i clicked and oh i love that the cpu was totally being used at 100% in anything i did..
so now i am back on xp pro until i buy a new pc

o another thing the start/shutdown
WHY MUST THE PC TAKE 3 MIN TO OFFICIALLY SHUTDOWN?
DONT ASK ME IM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT

Dear Mr. scobleizer,

I did just as you said, in fact more. I used vista for the last 6 months, and just now “upgraded” myself to Windows XP. WOW, what a relief, I am really glad I am finally using a fast and responsive OS. Don’t get me wrong, I have the top end machine with 4GB of ram and all, but Vista is just tooooo sloooow in everything it does.

Vista is terrible, seriously… how can you fall in love with a skin so badly? It’s XP with a slick GUI that robs you 10% of your gaming performance, makes things more difficult than it should and has a slew of incompatibility issues.

Seriously, you’re a sucker for media and looks. I’m surprised you aren’t an Apple fanatic. Yet at least Apple has a stable system. You must be using nothing but Office if you think Vista is a smart upgrade from the now very much solid XP Pro.

Mac-heads need to stop spewing hate speech just because the majority of the population doesn’t solely use computers for pictures and movies. If this were the case, everyone would use Macs. Since it isn’t, PCs serve their purpose.

I’m a network administrator & server administrator at a university. My guiding philosphy is choose the best tool for the job. I have 5000 Windows system. Macs, might be 5% of our machines. I saw that because it’s hard to know exactly, as we can’t centrally ‘see’ them or manage them. That may be great from a user perspective, it’s not from a security one. And, now that Macs are essentially Unix systems, they have all the potential security issues that unix does. From my perspective, Apple has sold it’s user base a bill of goods – that they know something that Windows users don’t. My experience has been that Mac users are far less techically savy than your average Windows user. I’ve found what most Mac users have bought into is the marketing – that they are smarter & cooler. The Apple bretheren always knock Microsoft for it’s monopolistic tendancies. However, I found this ironic considering Apple makes both the hardware and the OS for there platform. And, who’s a more paternalistic, Big Brother-like figure than Steve Jobs. Those Mad TV skits are so right on the money.

Ok Johnny, you are a network administrator. Not a programmer, or rocket scientist. If you knew anything about Mac users, you wouldn’t even have posted on here. I am in the music recording and post-production of sound business, EVERY machine in our company is a MAC. Pro Tools, Final Cut, Logic Pro, DVD Studio Pro, ETC. are all best suited for a MAC. Most music, movie, architects, and creative minded people to use Apple. It is true. I used to hate Mac until about 3 years ago. I was just like you and all Windows people. But it is true, you plug in and turn on a Mac and have WAY less problems than you would with a Windows machine. I have a friend who builds computers and loves Microsoft, but when I got a brand new Compaq desktop a couple years ago, he had to come over, take off most of the anti-virus and other stock software that came on my windowns computer and put his own stuff. It works great now, but right out of the box, Windows computers suck. Apple doesnt have pop ups or viruses or problems like Windows. Oh and explain how Microsoft is better when my Compaq is a 3.0 GHZ with 2 GB ram and 500 GB hard drive and runs the same if not worse than my Apple with only 1.5 GHz with 512MB ram and an 80 GB hard drive? The OS is way better on Apple and faster. Vista is only going to run slower and never be able to keep up with Apple. Sorry! My solution: OWN A MAC AND A PC

Microsoft Vista has lots of errors. So did Xp when it fitst came out. So if your thinking about Vista, I recomend you buy a Vista when its up to date

I have been using Vista since Jan 07 (even before if you count the beta versions) and I am finally switching back to XP. I tried to run two newer games last night and both had “issues” with Vista. Not only that, I am just tired of the constant nagging by Vista every time I try to run a program. If there is a problem with the program, my virus program will let me know, thank you very much.

Vista owns I have yet to encounter problems, all my hardware works, drivers and software I seriously don’t understand peoples lame complaints.

I’m even running a 19′in lcd display at 75 hertz!!

Zod, are you out there? For my Intro to DP/MIS class, part of an assignment is to explain how a newly introduced file system (Vista) compares to its predecessors (XP). I have been trying to follow this thread to get some ideas and getting confused because I am so not technical and when Vista Features were first released none of them seemed like that much of an improvement over XP as far as how I was using the computer. It sounds like you are happy enough with Vista, do you have time to say whether you think Vista is better or worse than XP and why…?

Sorry jerkoffs, Macs are NOT superior to PC’s ! Macs are solely for educational and desktop publishing environments, not much use in the workplace.

And yes Vista really sucks compared to XP or Linux. Microsoft is listening to the Hollyweird and RIAA fascists instead of the consumer, BIG mistake !!!

What makes XP great in spite of some problems, is the fact that you can tailor it to the end user’s requirements fairly simply.

Vista is locked down tighter than Guantanamo Bay, and no one and I mean no one with half a brain wants a computer that takes away freedom of choice. And that’s exactly what Vista and the new family of Crapple Macs do to the end user.

There’s so much Microsucks spyware running in the background, even with a Cray or Blue Gene super computer Vista will still crawl along slow as a snail.

Unless Microsoft & Mac change their business strategy, I see Linux taking the desktop segment over in the next few years as it becomes more polished and efficient software.

i think vista is the best thing to ever happen to this world should be given a knighthood. XP is slow, rubbish. LONG LIFE XP!

I have vista on my laptop and i dont like it. I’m building a new Pc with XP pro. So yeah Vista sucks!

True, Vista is not that bad. But is not good enough yet to make me wan’t to upgrade. Speed is King for me, and my XP is faster, by any benchmark, on my current PC.
Benchmarks speak louder than words.
Check them out here under my “Time for a downgrade ?” article.

I had vista for over a year and finally decided to UPGRADE (lol) back to XP pro. I had many issues that i basically solved myself. I am CE and have the knowledge to work with it but it got to a point that my computer was too slow, even with a core2duo and 2 gs of ram. I’m not a gamer btw. Whenever they finish figuring it out, i’ll go back to it.