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[quote name='cybereality' post='1048324' date='Apr 30 2010, 06:59 PM']Personally I find Vista to be a great deal more stable and more secure than XP ever was. I can't even remember the amount of blue-screens and crashes I used to get on XP, on Vista I don't think I've had one blue screen in the past 2 years, or a virus. I've tested Windows 7 a bit and no problems there either. While XP might still work I am not sure there is an argument that it is better than 7. While Vista or 7 don't have any one huge feature to them, it is a lot of little things that make a better package. If you have an old machine maybe its not worth upgrading, but if you are building a machine today there is no question to install a modern OS.[/quote]

This is just my opinion. /shifty.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shifty:' />

I had much the same experience with XP. It was less stable for me than OSX, Vista 64 (after sp1) or W7 by far and much less tolerant of issues that did happen to pop up and it was also just awful to use for me from a work-flow and usability standpoint. W7 is just leagues more enjoyable and intuitive to use for work on a daily basis. It isn't as if I am not technically profficient as I am an EE and I picked up a lot of CS classes during school along with having been into personal computing for a couple of decades now. Hell, I remember standing in line for Windows 95 at 15 years old /teehee.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':teehee:' /> . I was so utterly happy to kick XP to the curb that I remember doing a little dance. Plus, if one wants more than 3.5GB of ram I wouldn't even bother with XP x64, XP x64 was just trash from all of my experiences with it.
[quote name='cybereality' post='1048324' date='Apr 30 2010, 06:59 PM']Personally I find Vista to be a great deal more stable and more secure than XP ever was. I can't even remember the amount of blue-screens and crashes I used to get on XP, on Vista I don't think I've had one blue screen in the past 2 years, or a virus. I've tested Windows 7 a bit and no problems there either. While XP might still work I am not sure there is an argument that it is better than 7. While Vista or 7 don't have any one huge feature to them, it is a lot of little things that make a better package. If you have an old machine maybe its not worth upgrading, but if you are building a machine today there is no question to install a modern OS.



This is just my opinion. /shifty.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shifty:' />



I had much the same experience with XP. It was less stable for me than OSX, Vista 64 (after sp1) or W7 by far and much less tolerant of issues that did happen to pop up and it was also just awful to use for me from a work-flow and usability standpoint. W7 is just leagues more enjoyable and intuitive to use for work on a daily basis. It isn't as if I am not technically profficient as I am an EE and I picked up a lot of CS classes during school along with having been into personal computing for a couple of decades now. Hell, I remember standing in line for Windows 95 at 15 years old /teehee.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':teehee:' /> . I was so utterly happy to kick XP to the curb that I remember doing a little dance. Plus, if one wants more than 3.5GB of ram I wouldn't even bother with XP x64, XP x64 was just trash from all of my experiences with it.

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#16
Posted 05/01/2010 03:57 AM   
I absolutely hate Vista (32bit). As far as I am concerned it is a broken Windows. I used to dual boot XP and Vista (both 32bit) and always directly compared performance - vista always came up very short. I'm talking 15% sometimes more. Vista is unfixably flabby. I find statements saying, 'with the SPs, the difference in performance between the two OSs is neglegable' frankly risable.

I dual booted W7 with XP because I didnt trust MS after vista; I wish I hadnt now because I never use my XP anymore.

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However I am grateful for Vista 64bit because it definately helped to promote 64bit OSs to the masses.
I absolutely hate Vista (32bit). As far as I am concerned it is a broken Windows. I used to dual boot XP and Vista (both 32bit) and always directly compared performance - vista always came up very short. I'm talking 15% sometimes more. Vista is unfixably flabby. I find statements saying, 'with the SPs, the difference in performance between the two OSs is neglegable' frankly risable.



I dual booted W7 with XP because I didnt trust MS after vista; I wish I hadnt now because I never use my XP anymore.



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However I am grateful for Vista 64bit because it definately helped to promote 64bit OSs to the masses.

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#17
Posted 05/01/2010 07:10 AM   
This was not to start a debate, just a LOL at the situation. Next time I will read the requirements before ordering an item.

Win7 on it's way, I should get it in a few minutes.
This was not to start a debate, just a LOL at the situation. Next time I will read the requirements before ordering an item.



Win7 on it's way, I should get it in a few minutes.

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#18
Posted 05/03/2010 04:30 PM   
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