Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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Linux fanatics and OS X fan boys aside, who else considers going from Vista to XP an upgrade instead of a downgrade? :twisted:
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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I do :)
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I never upgraded to Vista. I used it a couple of times and that was enough for me.

How can microsoft afford to completely break all the conventions they have set over the years... I couldn't even complete basic tasks like using the file browser...
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pytrin wrote:I never upgraded to Vista. I used it a couple of times and that was enough for me.

How can microsoft afford to completely break all the conventions they have set over the years... I couldn't even complete basic tasks like using the file browser...
THANK YOU!

I actually tried Windows 7 Beta and as far as I'm concerned it's nothing more then a glorified Vista with touch screen support...
http://www.jabcreations.com/blog/windows-7-beta

Touch screen support? You can get a 1920x1200 24 inch screen for $270 on Newegg...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... rchInDesc=

The cheapest touch screen is $300...for a 15 inch with a resolution of 1024x768!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... 2010190514

Yeah...Microsoft is really in touch with the common person...not! I mean don't any of the people who make decisions there buy things on Newegg or other e-tailors?
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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+1
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This is hardly a secret though, it's common knowledge that even microsoft acknowledges vista as a major flop
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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A little of my experience.
I used Vista for about 4 months, after which I "upgraded" back to XP. Vista was slow, ok my system is not the latest, but it's still above recommended. Overall experience with Vista was very disappointing.
Now I have installed Win7 and its a lot faster than vista. I have only used it for several days, but I haven't seen anything what would make me wish to go back even to XP!
1) First thing which made me think "wow, this is awsome", was drivers, I didn't needed to install ANY, os installed (or already had) drivers for lan, gfx, tablet and even monitor (not sure what those do!?) Driver support has become better, all installed with no problems at all.
2) New taskbar and notification are is awsome, I have always hated all those icons near my clock (~10 icons, which I didn't needed), now I can easily just show only which I want. ♥ it!
3) All software which I used on XP is working (some of it didn't in Vista). GTA V performance is about the same as in XP, while in Vista I had huge slowdowns (probably this issue was connected with file read/write speed). File copy/delete is a lot faster, but still slightly slower than on XP.
4) Don't see UAC messages that often anymore (had to disable them on Vista, because they were irritating).
5) Windows media player is really nice and usable (except few random freezes), no more winamp/vlc player needed.

Windows 7 I would consider upgrade (will buy it when it comes out), while Vista (pirated :oops:) was definitely a downgrade.
And it's still a beta!
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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I bought a Vista machine and have been using it for several months now. I disabled UAC and did have to switch a few programs which didn't run on Vista. Crimson Editor runs but there was no support for syntax highlighting in php (wierd) so I switched to Notepad++. Now that I'm used to it it's fine. Couple of other things in a similar vein.

Digressed. I don't know how fast Vista is, but it's faster than I am. I'm not spending any time sitting around waiting for it at all. I don't much like the look of it, and it ticked me off having to find everything in a different place. I'm still not crazy about that, but I'm gradually getting used to it. It seems neither better or worse to me, just different.

Firefox crashes once in a while, which it never did in Win2k; but the system never crashes, which 2k did. So that's something of a trade off. The FF crashes are less frequent, although the 2k ones were pretty rare. All in all, Vista just has been another Windoze bore.
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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I thought vista was better
easy installation no need to install driver
more secure than xp i think
better memory management
and it wont get slow in time ( like xp after 1 month or 2 month it started showing slowness thingy )

in my company i check on both vista and xp
and seem xp got more trouble

but my assumption only limit office to use , if you use it to developed something or playing games etc complicated stuff
i dare not say as myself using ubuntu ( long live ubuntu ) and use windows for playing games hehe
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I like vista more than XP. I've had way less crashes, no slow down really w/ the graphics and I'm running 4 monitors. It has its quirks but so does linux. I'm glad to hear win7 is better, too bad I shelled out cash to purchase vista and am not going to pay them again :D Vista was extremely overpriced, but catching just one bug that only happens on OS w/ market share would make it pay for itself
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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Not used Vista myself, but I've heard the stories from people I know, having to buy new printers because their current ones didn't work anymore, etc

If people consider XP an upgrade from Vista: wow, I cannot imagine the horrible experience Vista must be, seeing what mess XP already is. People actually pay for that? Would be very interesting to learn more about how the marketing people at Microsoft do that, I want to be able to do that as well.
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Well, when I saw this I thought of this post.
http://graphjam.com/2009/01/07/song-cha ... he-f-word/
:P :P :P
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There are some brilliant comments too:
lola wrote:The Microsoft part is funny, your company must use Vista.
RiderLeangle wrote:And an Xbox 360.
chethan wrote:awesome!!!
u have analysed it well.. and even u have put that graph!!
god!
so many pieces in that cake BOSS!
Yes. So many pieces in that cake, Boss.
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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Ha that's freakin awesome lol.
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Re: Who else considers XP an UPGRADE from Vista?

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+1

Vista is an Epic Failure.

The supposed "security improvements" is little more than an irritating popup "are you sure you want to allow this?" that shows up at EVERY trivial thing you want to do, resulting in people blindly OK'ing it by default - there goes your security.
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