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 copyright. This all comes at an expense. Xp does not have a "kernal drm" or hardware drm requirement; thats why its much faster.
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 copyright. This all comes at an expense. Xp does not have a "kernal drm" or hardware drm requirement; thats why its much faster.
