As far as an OS goes, XP Pro is the most stable OS I have ever used. I have been running it for about 4 years and I have never seen the "Blue Screen of Death" and every time I get on a system using Vista I wonder why in the world MS ever messed with what wasn't broken. Vista is a system resource pig and it is very slow. It is pretty to look at but who really cares? IE7 is also quite slow compared to Firefox. I use both with my insurance business and Firefox blows it out of the water in every way.
That is another thing that bugs me hugely. If they'd just said "Here's Vista, take it or leave it; we'll support you either way" then I don't supposed i'd mind as much.
I have 2gb of ram and an intel dual core processor so maybe that's why i am getting such good results
I have seen this to have have both vista and xp...I still like xp better but slowly I am starting to like vista
There is. I am pretty sure Medal of Honor Airborne requires DX10 and it runs on XP. I just bought a fairly high end PC for gaming and I still chose to stick with my XP because I have used Vista and I just don't like it. Plus there still are some driver issues with some vendors. My GeForce 7300GT 265Mb card gets 250+ fps in Call of Duty 2 on XP. Vista is a hog!
I get around 200Fps and I am using Vista and going pretty fast. I have 2DDR3 ;D so i doubt i will slow down for a while
I know my PC would run fine on Vista but my example above just shows how much more resources Vista eats up. I am looking forward to Windows Server 2008 though.
So you're saying "Name something they can't do, but don't actually name something!"? Anyway, they can't be upgraded. It's that simple.
I'll stick to XP. Vista sucks. I'll wait for a better OS to release or i won't upgrade from XP to any other OS. - GM
XP SP2 is better than previous Microsoft windows. I like it. It is very stable. I might change to Vista after Microsoft releases Vista SP2 or SP3 lol
I'll take a crack at this. Hardware Issues (a lot of hardware cannot run on mac even with boot camp installed) Upgrade: As The General said its that simple. You either stick with your outdated mac or buy a new one. 3'd party apps: This is what makes Windows so neat. You have thousands of third party apps for programs like adobe and alias. hundreds for mac. Dedicated systems: Because Microsoft allows you to actually build a computer and buy install Windows by yourself you can have dedicated systems that are built to run specific programs....unlike mac where they claim one system does all.....doesn't always work that way unless you're running apple products. Productivity: That is the major flaw. Of course you can run boot camp to get all your productive applications from your Windows set on your mac. But tell me which business is going to do that. And last but not least. If Apple's are so good why do they have to continue tearing down Microsoft to get their products sold? You'd think they would compare their products to Linux since its superior in some sense to both systems.
Damn! XP's been my all-time favorite OS for as long as I can remember... But thankfully enough, Microsoft isn't abandoning XP. They've said that tech support won't be halted until some considerable time into the future. So there isn't much to fret over I guess.
Where did you hear this? Is there proof of this on their site? I was under the impression it was ending in 2008.
Microsoft does not cut off support so quick. To the best of my knowledge they were still offering support for '00.
Here is the support details for xp courtesy of wikipedia. I would take a guess and say this is as close to the truth there is. I couldn't find anything on xp support on microsoft.com other than when support ended for xp sp1 and sp1a, which was back in 2006, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Support_lifecycle Support lifecycle Mainstream support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 will end on April 14, 2009, four years after its general availability[36]. As per Microsoft's posted timetable, the company will stop licensing Windows XP to OEMs and terminate retail sales of the operating system June 30, 2008, 17 months after the release of Windows Vista.[37] On April 14, 2009, Windows XP will begin its "Extended Support" period that will last for 5 years until April 8, 2014.[38] First generation Windows XP (without Service Pack 2) is no longer supported; Microsoft ended the support for Windows XP RTM on September 30, 2004 and Windows XP Service Pack 1 and 1a on October 10, 2006.[39]
Ha ha, nice topic, considering the fact that I just bought 2 notebooks Asus F3U series and there is NO driver support for windows XP nowhere on the internet, Asus considered that it was too hard to make XP driver support, just vista. This is really bullshit, the f3u series from asus are completly unusable on XP