Vista or XP?

Re: Vista or XP?

feeds@yuku.com (yosimtesam) — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:09 GMT

to add to the mix,

I think vista's primary problem from inception was drm built into the kernal and requiring a special hardware chip on the graphic card/motherboard to assertain if you were running illegal copyrighted material. Xp has drm; but not at the kernal or hardware level. This added layer of drm on both hardware and software levels sucks the life out of vista; it has to scan the bus every 10 ms, do things with the graphic card in mili seconds just for the sake of...

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feeds@yuku.com (Vector13) — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:16:24 GMT

Hasta La Vista Baby.

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feeds@yuku.com (PassionatePiscesMan) — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:51:30 GMT

What ever happened to Bob?

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feeds@yuku.com (Snakes And Arrows) — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:02:29 GMT

This should give you some idea of what is going on....

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Microsoft Gives Up on Vista
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

The question now isn't "Is Vista Dead?" It is. The real question is: Can Microsoft get Windows 7 out in time to save its desktop domination? I think Microsoft...

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feeds@yuku.com (ilikelissie) — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:01:48 GMT

One word: SUSE.

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feeds@yuku.com (Vector13) — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:25:22 GMT

XP definitely. Vista has gone too far!

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feeds@yuku.com (CBRetriever) — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:01:32 GMT

Piranhahaha wrote:

Speaking of which, what does Windows Media Center do that XP Home or Pro doesn't?

It's designed to do media things (run video, make music and video recordings and manipulate them, etc). You usually have to get the software to do some of that, but the Windows media center programs came preloaded on my XP machine when I bought a media center pc.

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feeds@yuku.com (hippo2002) — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:26:59 GMT

My laptop can only run XP,so far so good.

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feeds@yuku.com (Apprentice Talker) — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:18:50 GMT

I like Windows XP. Vista is totally slow and I hate it.

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feeds@yuku.com (LaurenTheLush) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:45 GMT

I have Vista and I HATEEEE it.

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feeds@yuku.com (quietsurvivorfan) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:41:22 GMT

My company runs on Macs. I have both machines, but am still getting used to the Mac. In fact I would be a happy peep if I could finally convert over totally. I know I can set up the dual operating system on the macbook, but haven't done that yet. I would be totally happy if I could figure out how to make the mac touch pad perform the equivalent of the right click on the windows machine. Also, if I could get used to using the mac touchpad to simulate the click button better. And because I...

Re: Vista or XP?

feeds@yuku.com (Piranhahaha) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:36:33 GMT

My understanding is that it's at least two years off, to which I'll add a third to let the bugs settle out.

Yeah if your current machine is fine, don't bother.

I thought you were a Mac chick?

Anyhow, I'd bet Real won't play nice with Vista.

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feeds@yuku.com (quietsurvivorfan) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:30:57 GMT

Aunt Pappy wrote:
QSF, go with XP if at all possible. Vista is a resource hog and runs slow. Microsoft is even trying to rush their next operating system out earlier than planned to make up for the clusterfuck that is Vista.

What is the new OS they are working on? WHen will that be released?

I usually upgrade my notebooks every 4 years or so, so I usually upgrade the hell out of the machine which...

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feeds@yuku.com (quietsurvivorfan) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:27:16 GMT

r wrote:
I couldn't get outlook from office 2007 to run on vista. I upgraded which I'm sure was their goal.

Upgraded to what? I thought office 2007 was their latest version. Isn't outlook part of that?

Re: Vista or XP?

feeds@yuku.com (quietsurvivorfan) — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:25:50 GMT

smartguy24 wrote:
When I got my new laptop I figured I wouldn't like Vista, even considered downgrading to XP...but after getting used to it, I'm pretty pleased. Navigating through your files is so much easier with it.

I have always used windows explorer to navigate through my files. I know a lot of people use the so called user friendly function that opens what looks like an internet explorer...

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feeds@yuku.com (Piranhahaha) — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:28:26 GMT

Interesting timing -- the Washington Post tech columnist wrote about XP vs. Vista this week:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403552.html

I've never fooled around with Vista, but I think XP's fine.

Speaking of...

Re: Vista or XP?

feeds@yuku.com (WiscBadger95) — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:17:49 GMT

pinkleponk wrote:
Vista reminds me a lot of the Millenium Edition, it has some cool new stuff, but the bugginess of it makes me want to cave in my screen at times.

You aren't the first person to make that comparison. Vista is just a "filler" OS until Microsoft comes out with the real successor to XP.

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feeds@yuku.com (Aunt Pappy) — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:12:54 GMT

Hatebrigade, Vista runs slow with 2GB. It's just crap....pure and simple.

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feeds@yuku.com (polarexprezz) — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:58:25 GMT

XP.

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feeds@yuku.com (hatebrigade) — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:54:19 GMT

Mmy laptop only has a gig of ram and vista is sloooooow. I'm too lazy to buy more.

Vista or XP?

feeds@yuku.com (quietsurvivorfan) — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:16:09 GMT

I want to get a new laptop computer, and have to get a windows machine for biz reasons. However, my CPA just got new computers that have vista and her conversion has been a nightmare. XP is only going to be "supported" for a few more months by microsoft. I didn't really want a Vista Machine and don't really want to get XP if it is going by the wayside. I have not had any problems on my XP machine, currently.

So what is your experience? Is Vista really working...