t3jem

Apr 6 2008, 10:53 PM

QUOTE(Thingcubed @ Apr 6 2008, 03:41 PM)

If someone had a choice between the two, and they weren't worried about spending more money when they have to buy Vista a few years down the road, I'd suggest Windows XP Pro. The only issue is that they are going to discontinue support for Windows XP in a couple years. XP Pro will get support a little bit longer, and then they will switch entirely over to Vista. Granted, I'm not sure if its even possible to purchase copies of XP anymore. If they haven't discontinued it already then they will be doing so in the near future. When I bought my copy of XP Pro it was the last one they had at that Best Buy.

They'll discontinue windows XP in late summer I believe and stop support by 2010. This enrages me because most people have to buy new computers to use windows Vista and they're going to leave security holes in an OS that is used by about 50% of the market or more. I, being a computer nerd, will survive without support since I know more about computers than anybody on the microsoft support phone anyways, but many users on XP don't know how to keep safe and will switch to vista thinking it's safer and then complain about it being too slow and either have to spend more money to buy a new computer or they'll switch to apple, or they'll just moan about it. Microsoft, owning over 90% of the consumer market needs to think about the user rather than themselves, when you are the only real player there, you have to make your users happy to keep them, I see microsoft's market share dropping in the years to come, especially if windows 7 isn't any good either.

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the need for speed

Apr 11 2008, 08:44 AM

What I would say that it depends on what you'll use the computer for, If you're using it basicly like just browsing the web etc... However if you are using it for gaming,video editing or some stuff and you want a 'cool'er interface, try out Vista. But remember, Vista needs some recent hardware to run it smoothly

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rpgsearcherz

May 15 2008, 11:07 PM

Eh, I would go with Kubuntu but I have issues with the fact that a lot of games won't run on it(unless they're made with Linux clients as well.)

I'm a very big gamer, so that's a big issue for me.

And yeah, there are some programs out there that will "allow" you to play Windows games on Linux, but a lot of games still aren't supported even with that.

The other issue was finding my drivers on Linux, .

I honestly don't know enough about it to determine whether or not it would be an easy transition though. As long as I am still able to use XP I won't worry about it, but if I find out Vista is the only choice on my next computer, I'm going to search more in depth.

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tricky77puzzle

May 15 2008, 10:59 PM

Windows Vista is actually good on my computer (well, maybe a 1 in a million chance, but there are still those 100 people who have a good time with it), but as soon as I get the DVD burned, I'm getting Kubuntu 8.04 installed.

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rpgsearcherz

May 15 2008, 10:10 PM

QUOTE(asglu @ Apr 6 2008, 06:09 PM)

Windows vista OS is the worst OS I have ever seen.Because
1.It requires minimum 512mb ram,
2.It has very less supporting software,
3.no scope for openning guest account

The worst part about it isn't even that it takes 512 mb of ram. Ram is cheap these days. But that even with 1-2 gb's of ram it lags out horribly a lot of the time.

On top of that, for some unknown reason - even with a fresh Windows install - Vista taxes my CPU hardcore. I can easily get a quad core 2.4 ghz up to 40% on all 4 cores even while just idling. I don't understand why.

Same thing goes with the hard drive. It's as if it is constantly working even while it shouldn't be.

In terms of supporting software...For the most part those issues are fixed now. There are not many programs I can find anymore that won't work on it. At the same time, though, they run much, much slower on Vista than on XP.

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pauloreg

May 15 2008, 05:22 PM

I have windows vista since 2007, I have installed one time once, and not formated my pc after I install vista, windows vista is very good, in recovery systems, and more invulnerable from viruses, spywares, is the better, wich windows defender, no comments.

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the need for speed

Apr 11 2008, 09:27 PM

QUOTE(rayzoredge @ Apr 11 2008, 07:54 PM)

Does anyone find it funny that Internet Explorer 8 is already in the works? And OS7 is on its way? I believe Vista has only been out for over a year (January 2007) and Internet Explorer 7 has been out for a little over the same (October 2006).

Guess Microsoft is either on the ball with trying to develop something bigger and better already, or they've already given up on their own past projects.

IE8 & OS7 = Well, it is still in the first stages, I wouldn't be surprised as Microsoft wants to get back on track I guess.They don't pay attention to Vista anymore and whatever was behind them to make Windows 7 I just hope this is worth the wait because I'm skipping Vista and straight jumping to OS7

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